Poll: Do You Find More Silver Deep Or Mixed In Trash?

[Critterhunter]

I thought it would be interesting to hear people's opinions on this. How do you think you find most of your silver....Really deep (meaning past say 6 or 7"), or shallower but mixed in trash? State what kind of machine you use because that might slant the results. Meaning, there are many machines that aren't able to get much beyond 6 or 7" and so one would expect those users would find more of their silver shallower and mixed in trash. Also, what coil are you using for it?

I use a Sovereign GT and a 12x10 and for me I'd say most of my silver has come pretty much 50/50. Some have been deep (beyond 7") while probably just as many have come mixed in trash or iron.

 

[Steve O]

Most of the silvers (trime, caped busts, 1/2 reales,1/2 dimes, seateds, walkers, SL's, barbers) were found on farm fields & in the woods with the f-75, 11" coil, and less than 8" deep, also with the CZ, 10.5" coil.
The rosies and mercs, 6" or less.
My oldest silver was pulled out of a farm field, 1696 silver shilling, 6" deep. Those fields aren't plowed any more,.... unfortunately.
From my experience, the 75 hits deeper on the copper (verses silver) like; large cents, farthings and the colonial copper coins. A few silvers were pulled from trashy old fairgrounds and nail infested home sites.
Now that you have me thinking, I have found mostly coppers around the old houses, and more silver in the woods and farm fields...hmmmm, why do you suppose that is?

 

[osgood]

I more often find silver in the ground 6-8 inches. Occasionally like the other day I found one just about on the surface like where the soil had been recently disturbed. but usually I dont find them shallow and or with a lot of trash. Some days Im only digging stuff that Ids deeper than 6 inches I use the Fisher LTD75. Good Hunts, CO

 

[matthias]

Hey Critter. I hunt with a DFX and a Sovereign GT. Im still kinda new at this hobby and have not found much silver yet. The silver I have found with both detectors has been shallow and mixed with trash. Jewelry and coins. HH. Matt

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Occasionally I will find a nail or some other trash in the same hole. But more often than not the coin is by itself. And anywhere from 4 to 10 inches down using a Minelab Explorer ..

 

[Jason in Enid]

I have found some deep coins, but they are rare. Almost all the sites I hunt are heavily hunted common areas, and almost all my silver is less that 8 inches and on-edge and/or mixed with trash.

 

[fowlercharles]

Hi Steve, your supposing done got me thinking on it too and a thought did occur to me. Chances were better that the coins of all values would have been more concentrated inside a house area and not likely so much to have been on a person doing his daily chores, though a possibility for sure. Likely inside the house they would have had a better chance of little kids getting to them, or coins falling to the dirt floors etc. I too have found more silver in places not relatated to home sites so much but more related to camp sites near river crossings or campsites along traveler trails..When folks traveled they always had to have plenty money (that was usually silver rather than gold ) for ferry fares, and they were always buying feed for their animals, food for themselves (when they could) ,and there was always whiskey being bought from homesteaders along their travel routes. Troops were almost always paid in silver. It would have just made sense weight wise when traveling not to have been burdened with to many lesser value coins.Good possibility that there was a need to always have some money on their person at all times in case they became lost, or seperated from their groupe. Sleeping on the ground and in waggons, and doing their "business' on a convient hillside slope just naturally promotes a lost coin now and then. Just some thoughts you stirred from me. HH, Charlie

 

[Steve O]

Makes a lot of sense Charlie, good thinking.

 

[TerraDigger]

My experience is like McDave's.

 

[Dude]

Theres lots of competition here, it seems every other person has a detector. I've found silver at all depths, whats more important to me is where I find it. It takes research and thats when I find silver, other than that and it's just plain luck that my coil went over top a silver coin.