Hunted A Known Deep Coin Spot Today

[Critterhunter]

I've got a large mowed grass field that we've pulled a lot of 7.5" deep Rosies, barbers, and even a few seated dimes out of in the past. This place used to be our go to spot on days when we didn't know where to go, and with some decent effort we could usually walk out of there with 3 to 7 silver dimes a piece. This was back several years ago when we were using Whites units and those machines maxed out at about 7.5" in that soil. The soil is loamy, and I've even dug clads there this deep, so you would think there should be some deeper silver that was out of the reach of our Whites machines. The area has history going back a good ways into the 1800's so it has potential for that.

Was able to run the 12x10 at max sensitivity and it was completely stable. I tried to keep my sweep super slow, and would investigate even the slightest threshold change by doing short wiggles over the spot to see if I could get a coin ID to come out of it. Really only got one good deep coin signal, which turned out to be a lead bullet about 7" deep or so. Even investigated a few real iffy coin signals at depth but those turned out to be iron.

I'm really disappointed that I couldn't even pull a wheat out of there today, let alone some deep silver. I know the GT is deeper than the Whites were, and have added confidence with the 12x10, but still nothing showed up. I mentioned my disappointment to a friend and he said the most logical thing....Maybe there just aren't any deeper coins in there than the Whites units were able to reach. That's probably true. We've never seen any competition there other than a guy with a Bounty Hunter a few times. This field sits behind a school that doesn't look all that old, so unless you knew the history of the area most detectorists would probably pass this spot up. Just bothers me because this was one of my potential deep coin spots that I had high hopes for the GT and 12x10 to use at. Need to try a few more deep coin spots to see what the 12x10/GT combo can do on deeper coins.

 

[Critterhunter]

This soil is fairly good quality for the potential to have deeper coins than the 7.5" the Whites were able to reach. I've dug a few deeper plugs than this and am not hitting a clay layer that might have stopped coins from going deeper. Given the history of the area and the seateds dug there I would think there would be deeper coins yet to be found. It's a fairly large area that would also be hard for somebody to grid out using a good machine, and we've found coins all over this field.

Ahhh....Remember the days when you could wander into most old parks and dig 6 or 7" easy silvers on a consistent basis? That wasn't that long ago....About 6 or 7 years ago I could almost bet money that I'd find silver at those depths at just about any old park I went to on any given day. Now those easy silvers seem to all be gone. Have to find some new spots to hunt. Might be in order to start traveling to some small towns 20 miles or so south of me in rural areas.

 

[Critterhunter]

Really need to find some new spots to hit. As far as parks and schools go a few friends and I have been hitting the same places for years. I'm lucky enough to live in an area where there are many old parks and schools within a 20 mile radius or so. Even still, I still have some known deep coin spots that I need to try to hit with the GT and the 12x10. Just so happens that it appears the one I hit yesterday doesn't appear to really have coins past the depths the Whites were able to reach. I really like spots where wheats have come out in the 6 or 7"+ depths in years past, or spots where the soil is so loamy that modern clads (like the new state quarters) are already found at those depths. That tells me if the area is old enough there should very well be silver at greater depths at these spots.

 

[GunnarMN]

critter I know your disapointment, I almost never find silver coins , I do remember the old days i think it was early 1970,s going out to try my bounty hunter 150. with its small coil and what did i find a walking half and a standing liberty quarter two mercs and a buffalow nickle and 5 wheat cents all 3" deep i proceeded to hunt and find pull tabs and gave up the hobby i have cinc learned dont give up but i never make finds like that and i have a good machine as yu know it just goes to show how good you really hit that spot

 

[Critterhunter]

Yep. Really there is only one or two schools and maybe two spots in parks that my friends and I have mostly been going to over the years. Sure, we mix it up with hunting the woods, beach hunting, and the occasional new area to try, but I'd say most of our old school or old park hunting has been just a very small handful of spots that we have continued to pound over the years. That's rather limiting, as there are many more old parks and schools within even a 20 mile radius of us. I just have to start branching out and hitting other places to expand my horizons.

On the other hand, I still have a few other known potential deep coin spots that I want to try the GT and 12x10 at. These are places where we've dug deep silver in the past, or wheats, or have heard from other hunters that they've got deep silver out of there. Much of that is easy to determine on your own even without having dug deep coins there in the past. If the place has history, and digging a hole shows good soil that could let targets sink well over the years, then game on.

Today I'm going to try one or two parks in Cleveland that are probably only about 10 miles north of me. I've been eyeing these spots for years and never tried them. I know the area because a friend lives nearby and so I know the neighborhoods aren't really dangerous in terms of crime and such. But your average detectorist who doesn't know people from that area might assume it's too dangerous of a neighborhood to risk hunting in. That's the thing about Cleveland. You can't really tell what areas are dangerous or not unless you know somebody who's living there....Of course the really bad crack neighborhoods are easy to spot because of all the activity and the houses that are really falling apart bad.

I still haven't given up on that spot I hit the other day. It's like an old friend to me. I plan on hitting it when the ground is really wet to see if that helps bring some deeper keepers to the surface. I've got another potential deep coin spot that I pulled some 11" coins out of when the ground was real wet, but can't seem to get anything that deep there under normal (dry) ground conditions. In my soil, which most of my spots are somewhat mineralized, I need all the help I can get. It was simply amazing to me to start popping coins 8" and deeper when no machine we've ever owned could break that barrier. Not all my sites are mineralized, though.

 

[Critterhunter]

That spot I hunted the other day isn't very trashy either. Perfect place you would think to find some really deep silver signals, but nothing.

I remember a friend telling me about pictures he used to see in metal detecting magazines in I think the 70's, with guys displaying whole piles of silver coins including dollars and halfs, that they found in just one day's hunt at a school or something.

 

[Critterhunter]

Headed out for a little scouting mission to two parks nearby to each other in an old Cleveland neighborhood. Drove by the first park, which is kind'a secluded, and noted the name to research on the net. Called a friend and it turns out this is the oldest park in Cleveland from what he says. Not good, as I'm sure anybody who does that kind of research has long since pounded that place to death.

Headed over to the other park nearby and saw a guy metal detecting, so I parked and went over to talk to him. Turns out he was new to the hobby and using a cheap Bounty Hunter bought from a sporting goods store. Sure enough he was swinging about a foot off the ground, digging some rather nasty holes using a garden trowel, and so on. I asked him about the first park and he said him and his daughter were there one day when there was a bunch of gang members doing some kind of initiation, so it looks like that place is off limits unless I get there early in the morning.

Anyway, he had a good story. His family used to live in the oldest house on a street in Cleveland. Back when he was a kid his dad was going through a divorce and getting a little crazy, so he started burying jars of silver coins all over the property. He plans to go back and try to work out a deal with the current owners to split whatever he finds there. Hopefully he'll wait until he has more experience, as I'm sure he probably doesn't even understand that he'd need to use zero discrimination in case the jars had metal lids on them that would block the coin signal and read like iron.

 

[GunnarMN]

critter you will have to coach that guy , and maybe he will bring you with on that hunt , would that be somthing to find a stash of coins

 

[Critterhunter]

I thought about trying to worm my way into being his "guide" for hunting for those jars, but then I decided it wouldn't be worth the effort. I already tried to school him on keeping the coil near the ground and how to dig a proper plug. That was enough teaching for me.