Help with coin depth please.

[treetop flyer]

Hi everyone, just recently got back into the hoppy of detecting. --- Have 4 new detectors, from beginners models to top of line. Here's my question, ---- It seems that all of the coins that I have found, maybe 200 or so, are all modern coins, --- most are clad pennies, some copper, a couple of wheaties, with a few dimes and quarters, and maybe 2 nickels. I have dug them down to approx 7-8 inches, most are 3-4 inches. Why am I not finding any silver coins. Is it because they are deeper, and I am not detecting their signal? I will admit that I am hunting some trashy areas, and some front yards of old boarded up homes. --- I run my sensitivity settings as high as I can get by with, and am using various coils, (4.5" to 10"), Do coins tend to settle deeper every year? I have read many times of people in Europe find old Roman coins and artifacts. Not me, not even 1 silver coin yet. ---- I live in central Indiana, and don't expect to find WWI, artifacts, Roman coins, or even Civil War relics, ( only 1 small skirmish was fought in Indiana), --- Would appreciate your feedback, Thanks in advance, TTF

 

[Larry (IL)]

Any one of your detectors will find the silver. There are two basic factors in finding silver. #1, you have to hunt where there are silver targets and #2, you have to get the coil over the target. Sure there are many other factors as well, but simply put, I have found silver coins, old and newer, right under the surface to very deep. Older properties tend to be a more likely place to find silver and an older property that has not been hunted before is more likely yet. Public property that has been hunted for 50 years or more is the least likely to produce silver unless you have the best of equipment and know how to use it.

Nancy and like to ask permission to hunt older homes of which many have never been hunted before and we don't just hope to find silver, we expect to find silver. One older home we hunted last year produced well over one hundred older coins, many of them silver.

Good luck and just keep after the hobby, your first silver could be as close as your next dig........

 

[Tom_in_CA]

About the only place where depth and age are very correlated, is green turf. In seemingly all other places, the correlation is much less defined (or minimal, or whatever). In fact, in places like furroughed fields, storm-eroded beaches, oldtown urban demolition sites, etc... there is no correlation at all! In places like cow pastures, country-sides, hard-pan surfaces, etc.... I've found spanish reales, seateds, gold coins, etc... so shallow, that I could hear them on my pinpointer before I even started to dig (ie.: 3" or less). So if you are already getting up to 7 and 8", and not getting old coins, I suggest you pick better places to hunt. Like, old picnic sites long abandoned, old stage stops, etc..... But of course, you gotta hope you're not johnny-come-lately to the sites