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The trick for me is to go to the nastiest old places and put my detector down to find the areas with the most trash (more trash means more people moving about and dropping stuff). I settle for machine gun sounding areas. If I pick up a few square nails and/or a few old pennies from that area, silver will eventually be found (my ratio last Fall has been about 1 silver to 8 copper coins). Many poeple have detected where I go. Most get discouraged by the amount of bottle caps and iron bits and pieces and give up. Yet, I regularly pluck out silver coins from those areas. The hard truth is that most of these coins are either partially or totally masked by trash and only patience and a small coil will find some. I say some because I'm sure there's plenty more where I have already passed. Sadly, some will never be unmasked or perhaps they will once the iron bits crumble to pieces in rust powder.
