Puzzling situation?

[treasurejack]

I have hunted a particular lake now for about three years and the following circumstances really puzzle me. "In" this lake I have found numerous wheats, several silver rings, and even a few gold rings, with many of them being older. Now here's the puzzling part.....many of the wheats I have found have dated back as far as 1917 and yet I still have not found the first silver coin? Not even a buffalo nickel? Other then these early wheats, and there have been a bunch of them in the 20's and 30's, most of these other coins date from around 1960 to present. This lake was popular in the early 1900's with many cabins dotting its shoreline. It's simply driving me nuts that I can't find any silver coins in this lake despite the older jewelry, (both silver & gold), and the number of old wheats I have found. Common sense tells me that the lake has already been metal detected clean of it's lost silver, but yet this is the only lake I have ever hunted where I can find this many wheats without a single silver coin being found. Anyone ever run into anything like this before? And oh yes, I have hunted this lake to around the 8ft mark and "zip" nit a single silver coin that I can recall?

 

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[hollowpointred]

i have run into a lot of sites on dry land that produce a lot of wheats but no silver. i always figured guys before me had cherry picked the silver and left the pennies.

 

[1320]

I've experienced situations like this before and I write it off to the "odds".

Just one example:

1945 Mintage Numbers, "P" mint:

Penny: 1,040,515,000

Nickel: 119,408,100

Dime: 159,130,000

"Cherry picked" is a possibility as well but I would not give up on a site such as yours with this in mind. Even the pickers miss!

 

[Jeffro]

Try either slowing down or speeding up your sweep speed. I find that copper coins will hit no matter what, but you can go right over silver, especially deep silver, if your sweep speed isn't just right.

 

[treasurejack]

Thanks to both of you and I'll certainly keep both comments in mind the next time I hunt this lake.

 

[Jeffro]

BTW Jack, I use a CZ5 Quicksilver... not the same as a 20, but who knows? Maybe they're similar?

 

[red]

Well if it was dry land I would tell you to go outside and toss a few quarters, nickels , dimes and some pennies in the grass.
The silver stands out and you pick it right up but the copper is harder to see so it gets left there.
Or if you know you lost some coins you'll look harder for a quarter then a pennie right?.
But you at a popular old water spot ,how about this theory.
I have often pulled a pennie out of my pocket to try and skip it across the water.
I got the whole answer .
Over the years where your hunting there has been a lot of pennies skipped and a few times the skippers ring would fly off there finger and there you have the answer to the pennies and the Rings. 8)
Man don't I get a prize for figuring that one out?
Y'all have a great day and a better hunt.
red

 

[EDDE]

all very good reasoning guys chocolate kudos