Why Have I Found 18 Large Cents But ZERO Seated Coins?

[bergie]

They are from around the same era. Are seated coins that rare?

 

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[jeff of pa]

You Don't have a Minelab.

Just Joking Sort of

Silver is alot Smaller.
Maybe your Working too fast, Or Not hearing the Tiny Whispers.

Do you Use Headphones ?

 

[Thomas007]

Maybe those individuals who lived in that area in the 1800's were poor and only had small change... mainly pennies... albeit large ones.

 

[Evolution]

Keep searching Bergie. They are out there. I was fortunate enough to stumble across one (literally) earlier this year. It was right on the surface in a plowed farm field. 1876 CC SL dime. 18 largies? Wow. you had a good year. Does that include the colonials also or is that excluding the colonials?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I assume you're east of the Mississippi? We rarely get large cents in CA. In my 30+ yrs. of this, I only have 1. But I've got a few hundred seated coins. I guess when easterners got ready to travel west, they had to be selective about cargo weight and space. You should be getting seateds over there, along with your large cents. Dunno what the prob. is

 

[jeff of pa]

another thought.

What is your Discrimination level ?

Believe it or not, As you turn it up you loose depth & Sensitivity
especially on Small objects.

And since most silver lost back then was Tiny.

Half Dimes, 3 Cent Silver & Dimes you need all the Sensitivity you can get.

 

[bergie]

Thanks for the feedback. By the way, that's a total of 18 in a few years, not this year alone (no that doesn't include colonials, I have several of those too). I have found tiny silver like a 3 cent piece recently -- and several Barber dimes and lots of Mercs. I use a Radio Shack/Bounty Hunter, so people could say that is the problem, but I find a ton of good stuff, including those smaller coins. I keep it at pretty high sensitivity. It could be they are deeper and I am missing them. But, I once got a Reale -- tiny one about the size of a dime, so that's got to be mid 1700s and it was very thin, like the 3 center. I just discriminate out iron.

 

[jeff of pa]

Sounds like you have three Problems Then.


Location,

Location,


And of course Location.

Just havn't swung over any Seateds Yet.

HH
JEFF

 

[Iron Patch]

If your sites pre-date seated you won't find seated!

I'd much rather dig what you're getting than seated coins.

 

[BuckleBoy]

If your sites pre-date seated you won't find seated!

I'd much rather dig what you're getting than seated coins.

You hit the nail SQUARELY on the head! (Forgive the pun )

-Buckles

 

[ivan salis]

remember pennies are more common than dimes -- just like with modern coinage --your going to find more pennies than any other -- plus a dollar was a good bit of money in those days -- folks might give a kid a penny to spend but a dime nah -- just like today you might give a kid a buck to buy candy bar with but not a 10 dollar bill --- think of it like this a working man made say 1 buck a day back then -- say the same working man today made 100 bucks a day today --- the cent was like a buck --a dime was like $10 -- thus folks kept a closer tab on bigger coins.

 

[mark v]

I'd much rather dig what you're getting than seated coins.

Me to!

 

[Ocean7]

seated coins have sunk deeper into the soil and are therefore more difficult to find. Typically a 100 year old or less site will not produce seated coins. The old guys have dug a lot of them already... but location is a big issue.