What Was The Most Clad You Found In A Day, A Week, A Month, A Year?

[Critterhunter]

Just curious to hear how much clad you guys have wracked up on a day's hunt, or a weeks, months, or years time. Also, make sure to point out why kind of sites you were hunting and if on land or beach. Big difference in clad speeds there. Using a pin pointer and a screwdriver to pop them can really speed up land totals.

Also, I read this years ago but it's worth saying again. It's a good unique point and way to look at things. Are you having trouble finding silver in your area? Then why not clad hunt and then use that money to buy some old coins.

My favorite clad hunting spots in terms of ease (besides beaches) is playgrounds with pea gravel. I can easily use my foot to move the gravel and quickly recover the coin. Second on land (non-beach sites) would probably be mulch, though some times those types of playgrounds can be harder to dig in than dirt. Really besides the pea gravel my favorite quick way would just be to grass hunt and use a screwdriver and my Pro Pointer to quickly rack up clad totals. Ever hit those spots that just seem loaded with quarters for some reason? I'm finding around football stadiums or where concession stands are that there is a lot of quarters because they price things to quickly make change- meaning in 25 cent increments. Where else do you find a lot of quarters or tons of clads?

 

[norman maassey]

My brother Jeff and I dug $35 between us in about 4 hours just cherry picking a Houston Texas School demo site. On the first hunt Jeff dug only signals of quarters and I dug dimes and quarters. This demo site was hunted by Jeff and I with the help of about 10 other hunters over two months. I know that Jeff and I recovered over $150.00 in Clad between ue along. The next time we find a site like this we will keeg it to our selfs.

Houston keeps their Locked like Prisons, so a school yard can go for years without being hunted.

 

[BH_Landstar_]

School grounds and play fields.

Total since January of this year.

2 Silver dimes (1947, 1964)
2 Silver quarters (1960)
1 Seated quarter (1877)
1 Silver Half Dollar (1964)
1 Walking Liberty Half Dollar (1942)
30 Silver rings (925 / Sterling)
2 Gold Rings (10k)
2 Gold rings (14k) and .... $971.26 in clad coins (10/11/10)

 

[norman maassey]

You could make the $1200. mark. My best year was only $839. 45 in 2002. Can not put the time in like I did in my 40's.

 

[BH_Landstar_]

$1200 might be a bit hard to reach, I am looking to break the $1000.00 mark, problem I have at the moment is work / time, also, time is against me now, up here in Maine the weather is getting colder and the nights darker, and soon the ground will start to turn to concrete due to freezing.

 

[RLOH]

Tom, my second or third year of detecting I had my best summer ever for clad. This was before I had my first Minelab(Sovereign xs 2apro) and I found 3500 coins in three months. I was using a Garrett 750gtax for that summer.

 

[hank1]

September marked three full years with my MXT. Crossed 37,000 coins, and $3,600.00. I'm fortunate to have more time than many fellow hunters. I no longer own a home and my son is off to college. Most after work hours and weekends are available to hunt. Also, two of the last three winters here in Jersey have been rather mild. The approximate breakdown from memory is: 12,500--pennies, 5,750--nickles, 10,600--dimes, 8,400--quarters, 42--dolarrs and half-dollars.
Oldest coin..1832 Large Cent.

 

[Marxman]

Tot lots here are picked over pretty hard. Have been doing mainly ball fields.

The best day I have had was $11.23 in clad.

The best out of one location: $6.85

Most rings in one day - 3 (repeated this feat twice)

The best first fist full (first five coins) found: $2.45. 2-$1 Polk coins. 1- Quarter, 2- Dimes

Almost time to take the box of recovered clad in and add to yearly total.

Been detecting just over a year.

Mark

 

[Old Katz]

My best was $18.00 in one day. I got out there at 7:30 am and knocked off at 3:00pm. That ws a very
long day and my arm wanted to fall off. The next several days at the same sports field yielded more clad.
In two weeks time at the same place using two different detectors, an Ace 250 and an MXT I took out
$118.00 in clad and several toy cars. I too, cherry picked the place before going back over it with my Whites for those
nickels. No rings however.
Katz

Katz

 

[viper]

$170.00 in a year, best yr. about $12.00 in one day 3 hr. hunt !!

 

[fwcrawford]

My best day was one day hunting around a local school with my buddy.
I found 130 quarters, 19 dimes, 5 nickels, and 34 pennies which totaled $34.99.
Together we found $58.47 worth of coins.
We started around 10:00 and stopped around 3:00... would've kept searching,but we were wore out from all the digging and bending over.
Been back a few times to get what we missed that day and still came up with some good coin counts although nowhere near
what we found that first day.
Felix

 

[gilfordberry]

The wife and I hunt together. Our average month is between $150 and $300 in clad (last month a bit over $400). Because some months we don't detect all that much our annual take is somewhere around $2500. Jewelry finds during the summer used to average about 4 or 5 gold (rings, pendants, bracelets, etc.) and 15 or 20 silver items per month. Last couple years, though, our jewelry finds are down a great deal. Matter of fact, I've only found three gold items all year, maybe only 30 or so silver rings (last month was 11 silver rings, no gold). Best coin day about $60 for the two of us. A couple of exceptions - I once uncovered a mess of quarters and SBA dollars in a sandbox (nearly $50 in that hole). Both the wife and I have found ROLLS of quarters at the beach.?!! Guess someone had brought quarters to feed the parking meters, then lost them. Best ring day: 5 gold, three plain, one sapphire, one ruby. Best find ever: HEAVY gold crucifix and chain with emeralds (had to be at least four or five ounces; was returned to owner). Diamond rings: 6. Platinum rings: 4. Class rings: 12 (all have been returned to owners except one which we cannot trace). Best old coin (don't find much older than 1900 here) is a flying eagle penny (185 and an 1853 quarter. Also found some old - and a lot of newer - foreign coins, some silver, a couple gold (gold dos pesos pendant and a real (the jeweler says) Alexander the Great gold coin on a ruby chip necklace. Have never found a US gold coin.

If I added up all the money I've spent on detecting equipment, gas, batteries, etc., though, I'm not sure I've broken even. But it has been a blast.

This is all in 12 years of detecting.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Last year was my best year to date with a total of $1111. The first day of that year happened in three parks in Sydney (Australia) where I went for a 12 hour hunt. The only time I wasn't swing my GTI 1500 was when I walked between parks. I started around 6AM and literally didn't stop till 5:30PM. (OK, it was 11 hours) No breakfast or lunch, just detect, detect, detect. I ended the day with $118 and a 1924 penny, plus foreign coins too. Unfortunately, I ran out of water over 2 hours before I stopped and it was 38 degrees Celsius (a hundred on the old scale). I was trying to get to $110 and hadn't realised I'd already gone over it. I was hardly finding any coins in the last hour, but could have been distracted because I was starting to suffer from dehydration. As I was nursing quite a nasty headache, I realised my health was on the line, so abandoned, and went looking for fluids to drink. I did buy a bottle of soft drink, which didn't touch the sides, but when I got back to where I was staying, at the in laws, I couldn't hold anything down. Fortunately, they had a rehydration ice block that I slowly sucked on. It saved me from a trip to hospital. It took 3 weeks to recover from. Make sure you keep your fluids up.
On the trip down to Sydney last Christmas, I heard on the radio about a park that was used for Christmas celebrations, so looked it up and hunted it for 3 hours. I gave up $84. When I got back to the in-laws and they saw what I found, they half joked that I could live with out a day job. The previous day, yielded a similar total.
The best single site that I've hunted over a couple of week ends, was my son's former school. I got permission to hunt there (off limits to the public normally here in Australia) I pulled up $296. In one 7 hour period, I had pulled up $93. Wouldn't mind doing that more often. I also pulled up far more pre decimal coins here than I have anywhere else, with an even dozen coins coming up, including my first 2 Florins.
Mick Evans.

 

[jimmyWB]

My best one day total was $18.00 in the yard of a friend ...I found $10.00 in quarters in one hole (I suspect someone had dropped a roll of quarters long ago and pushed it into the mud by stepping on it)...This search lasted about 2 hours...it was a great day...

 

[Johnny Cache]

Wow, you guys have found a lot of coins! This has been my first summer of detecting, and I have found 1300 coins in total. Roughly 300 good pennies (Indian Head/Wheat/Canadian Edward and George) , and 56 silver coins. The other 944 are all clad. The total face value of all the coins is just over $70. I think my best 'clad day' was about 5 bucks, and my best 'silver day' was 2 bucks (1904 Barber half, 1896 's' Barber half, and 1896 Morgan dollar found in the same hole).

 

[celtex]

I hunted a virgin church camp and picked up 187 coins mostly quaters! Next day I founs 87 coins and it has dropped to below 20 now. Only a few silvers but was fun.

 

[af647]

FOR A LONG TIME MY BEST DAY WAS 66 DOLLARS
THEN 1 DAY I TIED THAT AND MY WIFE WANTED TO GO HOME
I SAID NOOOOOOOOOOOO AND DETECTED A COUPLE MORE PLACES
FOR A TOTAL OF ABOUT 82 DOLLARS
CANADA AND AUSTRALIA ARE LUCKY WITH 1 AND 2 DOLLAR COINS

 

[oldcoon]

I hunted a virgin church camp and picked up 187 coins mostly quaters!

Get out! A church camp for virgins? Dang. I've never heard of such a thing.

 

[DirtSurgeon]

I broke my one day clad total this morning after work. (night shifter). I went to a new playground area that I just discovered on google earth and the coins were just flying out of the ground. I was there for about two and a half hours and decided to hit one other playground that I know of on the way home for 45 minutes. total coinage for both hunts was :

43 quarters, 31 dimes, 13 nickels and 27 pennies for a grand total of $14.77. ...(+ 1 junk ring)

Ace 250 w/ 10 x 14 excellerator coil rocks baby !!

Sorry no pics. ( you've all seen pictures of clad before )

DS

 

[TRIPLE-SSS]

$189.20 in a 3 hour period after a hurricane. Quarters, dimes and nickles, no pennies spread out over a 5 foot area. The coins were in a glass jar and the storm broke it. I was lucky enough to come across the location next to the beach.
TRIPLE-SSS