How many halves and dollars have you found?

[Monte]

Hello Monte sorry about that I am from Western Pennsylvania, about 15 miles east Pittsburgh. Not many of the modern half or dollar coins circulate around here.

Thanks, that helps. If you're just 15 miles east then you are certainly in, or near, ample population to find modern coins. I sometimes pop a newer quarter-reading $1 coin from an open park or sports field, but the bulk of them I find in the wood-chip or sand-filled playgrounds at parks and elementary schools. If you are simply out casually coin hunting, I suggest you make sure you add these types of sites to your list.

I usually hunt with a smaller-than-stock search coil, preferring something

 

[john4840]

Hello Monte sorry about that I am from Western Pennsylvania, about 15 miles east Pittsburgh. Not many of the modern half or dollar coins circulate around here.

Thanks, that helps. If you're just 15 miles east then you are certainly in, or near, ample population to find modern coins. I sometimes pop a newer quarter-reading $1 coin from an open park or sports field, but the bulk of them I find in the wood-chip or sand-filled playgrounds at parks and elementary schools. If you are simply out casually coin hunting, I suggest you make sure you add these types of sites to your list.

I usually hunt with a smaller-than-stock search coil, preferring something

 

[greenhorn62]

my first one ever 1941 walking liberty

 

[ivanll]

One of each....1939..................................1926............

 

[JimGilmore]

While I have not found too much this year I have added 1 mercury dime,several wheats 1 v nickel and 1 buffalo nickel.
It is not that I have bad equipment but I just am not in a location that will yeild much in old coins. NYC has very limited sites to hunt and I have very limited time to go use them....
I am hoping that I will find a few more silver coins and maybe a gold item before this year is over....

 

[john4840]

While I have not found too much this year I have added 1 mercury dime,several wheats 1 v nickel and 1 buffalo nickel.
It is not that I have bad equipment but I just am not in a location that will yeild much in old coins. NYC has very limited sites to hunt and I have very limited time to go use them....
I am hoping that I will find a few more silver coins and maybe a gold item before this year is over....

Over time pulling any type of silver coins out of the ground in a public places is getting harder. Not many old big parks were I live. I believe that I am going to have to do more door knocking. By the way try to think out of the box. One day I was searching an old church yard / picnic ground that had an old fence around it. I found a place in the fence were it look like hunters were using to access the woods to go hunting. I ran my metal detector in that area and found silver coins and a brass ram rod for a rifle. Another time I was searching a old school and not getting much so and their was an area that had some woods and decided to search in there. I found 3 silver quarters stacked on top of each other only about 2 inches deep. One important rule is always recheck your holes. I was searching an old football field and got a shallow clad dime reading, so I dug the dime and scanned the hole and got a half dollar reading. About 5 inches under the clad dime there was a silver walking liberty half.

John

 

[blue dunbar]

1 Susan B Anthony and 2 2 1976 Kennedy halves. (all in past 2 years) Since that year was the bi-centennial and the year I was married, I've mounted on in leather as a amulet which is a leather-working hobby of mine.

 

[TC-NM]

In all the years I've been detecting, I have never found a half (clad or silver). Though I have found more Eisenhower Dollars than most. 3 of them in one year.

TC-NM

 

[TC-NM]

Let me add to that. I did find 2 of the modern (Gold Looking) Presidential Dollars.

TC-NM