Can't find silver and/or older coins?

[BarberBill]

I've noticed over the last couple of years that threads on the lack of silver and old coins show up fairly often. While I also regret the rarity of older coins, if one stops to think about it, the mints will have quit stamping out silver 50 years ago come 2014. The only thing that could happen over that many years is what has happened, they've become fewer and farther apart requiring more patience and site research by the hunter.
HH
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[Monkeywrangler22]

When you live in suburbia, there is a distinct lack of old anything. Can't wait for a chance to detect in KS/MO this fall!

 

[GoGoGopher]

Suberbia is where it is at my friend...The less people currently in a spot that might have had a LOT of folks, the better...less trash to deal with most of the time...Research your local area...MO has a lot of history with the Calvery, Indians, Wars, etc.

HH,

 

[slowmotion]

I remember after 1964 silver coins started to disappear fast. Copper coins didn't. Nobody cared. All most nobody. Coin dealers and banks to name few. There wasn't enough silver left for people to lose. Just my view.
Willard in Spokane

 

[croakersmoker78]

try parks my buddy hunts a new park he has found a 1877 ih tiffany chain and ruby bracelet its there

 

[oldcoon]

[size=small]I started detecting over 40 years ago.
Back then most of our finds were silver.
Naturally each year silver becomes more rare.
I do not target silver.
It is not worth my time.
I can find several hundred clad in the time it takes to find any silver.
What silver I find today comes in the natural course of my hunting.
In some areas of the Country where you do not have a lot of treasure hunters, it may pay to seek silver.
Here in Central Pennsylvania, no!
Someday, maybe, I will find a virgin site again.
Yards, I think, are the last bastion of undetected sites.
I am certain a lot more yards remain undetected that ones that have been searched.[/size]​

 

[BarberBill]

Oldcoon makes good sense. Another approach to silver and old coins is to collect all the clad you can and buy good coins from a dealer.
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[Geo Unit]

I live in a house built about 1880.
I've only been MDing a little over a year
I began to find older coins (Wheats & Indian Heads) this past spring
But I'm perplexed as to why I find no silver
I know its there or at least I think it is
I found a 1959 dime this past July and it is my only silver
I have lived here 35+ years and no one has detected the property in that time
And I find many what I call recent relics-things that were around 40or 50 years ago but not now
Any ideas/thoughts/reasoning or condolences appreciated

 

[mr1874]

I began to find older coins (Wheats & Indian Heads) this past spring
But I'm perplexed as to why I find no silver

If you are finding Wheats & Indian Heads on the grounds around your house the potential is definitely there to find some silver.

Try to get a little more depth. Don't be afraid to use all-metal mode on your detector.Silver is slightly denser than copper but not enough so to matter to the detectorist who is trying to get the deepest coins.

 

[Geo Unit]

Thanks 4 the hints mr1874
I've tried all metal and found that the yard is indeed all metal!
But I don't think every coin would be masked
Most of the wheats were 4" to 6"
I bought a larger coil as well
I think depth is the main reason
I think that over time matter accumulates (grass clippings/leaves) and the silver is probably deep
I did find a 1951 New Jersey license plate at 16'' tho