never any old coins or rings

[croakersmoker78]

i go to the beach and a lot of parks i have never found anything other than new coins wheat's never ih or silver no rings or nothing i go all over i have a good detector and know what I'm doing i guess i just have no luck but i see all these pics on here its amazing wish i could find something nice

 

[Goes4ever]

well if it is not there u cannot find it, research..........you need to find places where activity when on 100 yrs ago to be pulling indians, barbers etc.....

 

[ROBTAS]

being new to this I will settle for almost anything. I live in tassie but just before easter going to Dunolly Vic to learn about gold detecting with my xterra 70.

 

[Beale]

Just keep hunting! I found 13 rings my 1st 2 years and only 1 last year? You just need to keep hitting it. Schools, ball fields, parks, swim holes Good luck to you, Beale.

 

[Digger]

I won't deny that there is an element of luck involved to pass your coil over an old coin of a gold ring. But what I've learned over the past 38 years of detecting is "the better I understand my detector and the harder I work at researching old places to hunt, the luckier I get". JMHO HH Randy

 

[topknocker]

me and my son have quite a few (not as much as we would like) old coins, winged liberties, indians, barbers, standing liberties. we have some civil war 3 ringers also. we have a ton of clad. quite a few pieces of jewelry. we have only found the old stuff at old homesites, churches, and battle sites over a hundred years old. we still hunt new ballparks and soccer fields because we have found some really nice jewelry there. we like the old stuff the best though. we love civil war bullets. you can find some old coins on some beaches. keep hunting and look for old places.

 

[Furious T]

Using Notch and/or Disc. can often knock out a lot of things you wouldn't mind finding. HH

 

[cymro]

I would be intersted to know the settings you use. I always search in all metal and use the sounds to decide whether to Dig or not to dig. The rings that I have found haven't always returned a steady id number when checked in coin mode. I agree with some of the other posters though you have to do your research if you want to find older targets. Robtas good luck on your prospecting trip to Dunolly.

Dave

 

[1859large]

Old photographs, old newspapers, old maps might put you on to sites that where once busy spots, old parks, fairgrounds.

Take a look at Google Earth of places nearby. I found my first silver ring, not old but a bigger ring, when I noticed on GE what looked like a playing field in a park that I had been by many times but never noticed before. It turned out to be a little used polo field and I found a ring right beside a gate into the field. A faint line across a field might have been a significant road 100 years ago. House sites might show as rough square patches. A bit of legwork after getting permission might prove what happened there.

Dig everything when you first find a new site. Iron can tell you a lot about the age and use of a site. Square nails, farm tools, hinges and such tell the history of the place, then you look for coins. Sometimes coins might be found very close to iron and a novice will not see it where a pro might just have a feel there is more there than that darn big piece of iron. Remember on the learning curve, any piece of non-ferrous, be it lead or copper scrap you dig, that is coin sized, proves that you are reading your machine correctly you just need patience to find coins or rings. They are out there.

I use Google Earth a lot to plan my outings as well as old air photos. They show old land usage which might help in finding a site with older stuff.

Where I search the oldest air photos are 1948 and land use then was pretty much as it had been for 100s of years, since that time a lot of farmland has been abandoned and overgrown. You don't find clad in places used before 1948. I have found coins and tokens from 1813 to 1945 in those places as well as buttons, bullets and pounds of lead. I have even found a few brass musket parts.

This will tick you off, I have found 2 of my more valuable coins, coins with key dates, less than 20 minutes walking distance from my house. The nice thing is there is no clad nor pull tabs at either place. Just old stuff. It is a dream location but finds are scarce and it takes time.

HH

1859

 

[jhettel]

I just don't see how you can expect to find anything old at a beach. Maybe some rings, but those would probably be in the water.

As for parks, I don't know where you live but if you live in a metropolitan area you need to get out into the boonies and try some of those parks. There are unhunted sites everywhere, believe me. You just need to do some research to find them. Many people are willing to talk also and will lead you to some nice hunting spots.