8 more wheaties but why can't i find any silver?

[traviswells]

i have found almost 20 wheaties in my yard this house was built about 1900 i'm using an ace 250 in coin mode why can't i find any silver? i know there has to be some,, are there any little tricks i can use to help me find the silver what am i doing wrong?

 

[awhitster]

Keep swinging. People didn't lose as much silver coins back then, they could actually buy something. Overlap your swings.

 

[khouse]

Since you are digging wheats here is the trick. Swing the coil over your silver coin. Dig it and be happy. The trick is getting your coil over silver. There may not be any or just a few. Are you overlapping your coil sweeps by at least 50%?

 

[liltracs]

Perserverence pays off. Unless you hit a lucky spot the silver coin finds will be a lower ratio to the pennies. The same usually with modern coins. You should dig the trash also, One object masking out another is a problem w/ any detector.

 

[draaiorgel]

Travis,
Don't be disappointed you've got to walk over it to get it and if it's not there ya aint gonna walk over it.
However the upside is the Ace is a silver magnet, be patient and try various locations and you will get silver.

 

[Da Yooper]

Great job, I'm on a wheatie dry spell.

 

[ROADKING]

Great MD I use the same one love it . It toke me seams like for ever to get my first wheat Icould not understand what I was doing wrong. Now I find them all the time. Give it time it will come.Good luck

 

[cwilk]

Also consider that silver coins disappeared from ciculation almost overnight in 1964. Wheat cents circulated widely until at least the 80s probably later than that. I still get wheats in my change every couple of weeks. I get maybe one or two silver coins a year in change, and that's a good year. Silver will come when you least expect it.

Chris

 

[lazyaussie]

when i"m hunting for old silver coins i run the ace in all metal as some junk can mask good high tones.
I run the sensitivity as high as i can without to much falsing around 8 bars as this will make those deep silver that sound like bad targets turn into good sounding targets.
I also dig high-low choppy signals that barely sound on pinpoint mode about 1 out of 6 targets will be deep coins the rest will be tinfoil.
once a silver coin is found grid the area low and slow. I"v found heap of silver and would have missed around one third of my silver coins without using this style of hunting
headphones with volume control is a must when using this style of hunting.
This is not for the faint hearted as it can be very frustrating times
hope this helps you find the silver
lezyaussie

 

[Uncle Willy]

You can't find silver where silver ain't. Silver coins were worth a fortune back then and people didn't lose many and if they dropped one they looked for it till they found it. Most folks carried their coins in a coin purse not in their pockets. You have to relate to the times. Back then a quarter would pay your way into the movies and buy you a box of popcorn, a candy bar, and a coke. It would be the same as you today walking around losing ten and twenty dollar bills. People then were very careful with their money as most didn';t have a whole lot of it - not when one worked 10-12 hour days for a dollar a day or less.

Bill.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Even overlapping 50%, at depth your signal is only covering an area about the size of a quarter. One must bear this in mind and not let the size of your coil fool you into a false sense of coverage.

Bill.