I can tell a site that was hit early in detecting times probably 35-40 years ago

[silvercoinboy]

I'm hunting in Switzerland and all the coins are low conductor- hitting below 15 on a 1-40 Equinox scale

I can see that a grass beach site that I am systematically searching was cleaned out of all silver 35+ years ago. It is clear that were using early discrimination which blocked out the low number coins, and trash, while allowing them to grab all the silver. I have found over 1000 coins here with about 10% from the 40's and 50's and down at 6 inches. but no silver. The old 1/2 franc and up were .835 silver through 1967. I have found old gold from the 1970's here also which also confirms that the earlier hunters were running discrim high.

I'd love to know how many silvers they got out of the site. The 1/2 franc coin in smaller than a dime and I find them in abundance (55 cents at current exchange rates)

Who else has seen this while searching a 'virgin' site? At least untouched for 35+ years

BTW, full pics coming at the end of my week of hunting!!! already 1 gold and 2 silver jewelry and 150+ coins

 

[laplander]

Turn of the century horse track for me. Nothing left but dimes and down on this site and lots of them along with wheats, Indians and nickels. They just hit the big silvers!
HH Jeff

 

[JCR TX]

I have the same strong suspicions when I hunt most any public site. Only Silver left is masked or quite deep, same with Copper Small Cents. On the few virgin permissions I have been fortunate to get, Silver coins were easy targets.