What am I missing?

[lawman0210]

So I have been revisiting my yard with a Fisher F5 and F75. My home was built in 66 and I have found nickels and quarters down to 66 pennies down to 1940. Wheat pennies as shallow as 3 inches and as deep as 8. I have recovered maybe 100 coins but none silver. Surely there has to be silver here

 

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[DiggerinVA]

What makes you so sure there is silver there? I have hunted dozens of yards from houses built in the 50's that had no silver....just the way it is sometimes.

 

[lawman0210]

Just thought surely thar if people were losing pennies dating back to 40's there should be a merc dime or silver quarter

 

[lawman0210]

Settings were sensitivity 60, process De, no notch, descrimination 15, threshold +1

 

[Sandman]

With silver being so conductive it was easy for guys way back when to find silver even with the older detectors we used. Maybe someone did your yard before.

 

[Loco-Digger]

It's a crap shoot thinking a house built in 1966 will produce silver. If there is silver there, and you swung the coil over it you'd have heard it. Both the F5 & F75 are capable detectors.

 

[lawman0210]

Jumped next store today but as soon as I dug a penny the floods came. I must of upset the coin gods.
I will say this 7.2 version is very very noisy
Anyone know if the newest 9.0 is worth buying?
I love this camo but If the new black one cuts down the chatter I may have to buy it.
I'm running only 60 sensitivity and descrimination at 20 and it's still bip, bip bip,

 

[DiggerinVA]

my f75 ltd (black) was the same way, very chatty until i got it upgraded....now i can run it wide open in most places if i want to. Lawman....i think i spoke to you via text last week about you buying my F75 off of craigslist...

 

[DiggerinVA]

Also ....just another example.....ii hunted around a pre-1900 farmhouse that i was sure had some silver to only find 1 merc dime and a bunch of wheat pennies...my own house however, was built in the 1940's and i have found a PILE of good stuff in that yard includiing over 50 wheat pennies, 7 silver dimes, a couple war nickels, several WW2 medals, a 1940's VA game warden badge and some jewelry. My point is that sometimes it has more to do with the people who lived at the house and how careless the were...

 

[lawman0210]

If you were the fellow selling one then yes you did

 

[DiggerinVA]

The F75 will take some time to get use to.....but i think you will do well with it after you get use to it....

 

[lawman0210]

If I could just get that nickel reading to actually be a nickel. Seems 95% of the time it's a pull tab

 

[Loco-Digger]

If I could just get that nickel reading to actually be a nickel. Seems 95% of the time it's a pull tab

I run 4H tone, it rings nickles the same high tone as silver, so does 3H. what number of tones are you using?

 

[lawman0210]

I am using 3H but I bought the new F75 today so I am going to check out the new tones available

 

[lawman0210]

With silver being so conductive it was easy for guys way back when to find silver even with the older detectors we used. Maybe someone did your yard before.

After thinking about that I really don't think that. If someone did why would they leave so much clad? I have maybe 10 quarters from 66-67. Countless dimes and pennies

 

[mtrimmer]

I know what you mean, My house was built around 1863 and i have never found any silver coins either.

 

[Keppy]

Same here my house was built in 1896 and i never found any silver here either ... I have found a lot of silver other places but never at my own home.. So you could be really not missing anything.. Your silver is gone .

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I lived in a house built in 1935 and only ever found one silver coin (a dime).

Yours is 1966 and by 1963 folks started to pull the silver out of circulation; so there just might not be any there.

 

[Sandman]

After thinking about that I really don't think that. If someone did why would they leave so much clad? I have maybe 10 quarters from 66-67. Countless dimes and pennies

Ever think after the silver was removed, clad was deposited by others.