silver hunt tomorrow, help with VDI #s, please

[dufus]

i honestly think i might actually have a good idea where some old silver coins might be. i am having my graqndson meet me in the morning in jackson, ms [ i live in the woods, 40 miles south ] to have a look-see about this. now,, i would highly appreciate it, if someone could give me some VDI #s that HAVE to be dug. i will use my 1500, and i am hoping the lad will find the good stuff, as the PRO probably is better suited to find the deeper, old stuff. i JUST KNOW there is some old silver coins in this area, and i have been finding the shallower coins [ dating to the late 60's to early 70's ] and there HAS to be some deeper coins there. please give me the numbers that HAVE to be dug--------------------thanks-- [ and remember,,, we don't exactly know what we are doing ]

 

[quarterhorse]

My old silver coin experience is limited but here's my observation with 90% silver coins and the AT Pro.

Dig all the high tones with VDI #'s between 80 and the mid 90's that should cover your silver "clad" and 90% silver coins from silver dime to half dollars plus 90% of any silver rings too. If the coins are real deep you might just get a subtle whisper high tone with no VDI numbers. My silver dimes usually run close to 84 and quarters around 88......haven't found any 90% half dollars but clad half's run in the 92 area.... I find that silver runs a number or two usually above the VDI on clad of the same denomination...all things being equal....such as depth. Those VDI numbers can actually degrade due to lots of things, such as hybrid signals of two different coins in close proximity to each other and depth.

Good Luck
QH

 

[MrPopTop]

anything repeatable with vdi 77-99. repeatable high tone numbers will bounce

 

[dufus]

we didn't make our hunt after all,, the lad did not show up, and did not answer his cell phone. turns out, he had went over to a semi-bad area of jackson, real close to ''gang'sta'' land, to pick up one of his buddies from work at a sub sammich shop, and got armed robbed in the parking lot. hood rat shoved a .357 [ turned out to be stolen ] in his face and took his billfold [$40 ] and his and buddy's cell phones. luckily, there was a JPD officer directing football traffic about 15 yards around a corner, and he radioed other officers and caught them before they left the area. it seems the boy spent most of the night at the JPD identifying perps and making reports. his granny had just given him a $1,000 gold panda coin necklace, with a heavy gold chain, that they apparently did not see as it was under his t-shirt. officer told him to carry a firearm, papaw told him to stay out of those areas after dark, go sparingly during the day, but be alert. i carry a AR-15 under the rear seat of my Z-71, and could easily blow the back window of the vehicle leaving at distance, but i would hesitate in an area where there was a lot of traffic. you can't call a bullet back, after it leaves. i had bought the boy a springfield match .45 when he was 14, and he shot IPSC matches with me for 2-3 years, before i had my stupid stroke, but i keep it in my safe. ------anyway, we are gonna go after the silver in a few weeks, as the location is on the state fairgrounds, and they are setting up now for this years fair. i went there yesterday myself, but i had the scorcher coil on the 1500, and found 43 clad coins. maybe by the time the fair leaves, i will have the GOLD, and we both can go for the gusto. no one has gone over that area recently, evidenced by the number of coins i found, and the majority dated in the early 70's. i found a somewhat odd penny, a canadian bicentennial 1867-1967 something-or-another, so there is old coins there---to be continued.