Whats the most silver coins

[geodehunter]

That you have found in one day of detecting? Drum roll please- 4 for me.

 

[fwcrawford]

4 for me too, but they were some nice ones.. 1 washington quater, 2 walking liberty halves, and a morgan dollar!

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

3. Two quarters and one dime.

 

[DrBobinMO]

16. You can see the video of it on my post a couple days ago. But I've been detecting for over 25 years to have a day like that.

 

[geodehunter]

16. You can see the video of it on my post a couple days ago. But I've been detecting for over 25 years to have a day like that.

Bob, I watched your video. I was drooling all over the floor.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

46 for me. That was on a day during beach storm erosion in 1997/98 winter here. Over 100 wheaties and a $2.50 gold coin too.

 

[cadman_us]

4, three mercs and a war nickle

 

[bootyhoundpa]

about 8 or 10 plus a silver religious charm as well.....it was in a swimming pond which gets drained every year...i was hunting in the area of a large iron storm drain cover.....the machine i was using that day was very good at not falsing on the large iron....ive never even come close to that much silver in one day since....

 

[Elton]

Just wait till the Old Timers who have been detecting from the 60's chime in... There was no Clad back then..Just Pennies, Nickles, And Silver ......

 

[WV62]

Looks like (6) silvers, 5 dimes and 1 quarter was my most in one day 9/25/83, and several other days with 5 silvers.
But still think my best day was 1225 silver dollar and a silver quarter in one day 8/14/83.

Ron in WV

 

[JB(MS)]

The most I've found in a single hunt in the last 25 years was 45, 33 dimes and 12 quarters, at an old drive-in movie site in the early 1990's, but I found more than that on a hunt more than once before the mid 1970's. I got my first detector in 1969 and finding well over 100 coins on a hunt wasn't at all unusual for the first two to three years as 99.99 percent of the places in this area where coins were lost had never had a detector on them. Finding more silver coins than clad coins during a hunt also wasn't uncommon for the first couple of years because silver coins had been lost here in town for over 80 years while clad had only been lost for four years, plus quite a few silver coins were still in circulation and being lost. I sometimes counted the total number of coins found, but didn't count just the silver coins because they weren't uncommon. Until 1975 or 76 all the coins I found that looked good enough to spend, including silver, went in the loose change box without being counted and were immediately put back into circulation by my daughter.

 

[Monte]

What needs to be stated? Just this ... We all got involved in this great sport/hobby because we were interested in 'old things,' and most were/are interested in coins. Here in the USA, where we seems to have had the earliest and greatest surge in metal detector manufacturing and so many people actively involved in metal detecting. Some active early-era metal detecting and old-site searchers are no longer with us. I am certain their stories would make many of ours seem minuscule, to include mine and those like me.

Interested in ALL older coins, I still had the same interest in the recovered bright and shiny (usually) silver coins that didn't have the discoloration and decay of the copper-class 1

 

[cadman_us]

After reading some of these posts, I can say that I am glad that I am new to the detecting hobby. I feel that a 2 silver day is great, couldn't imagine going from 20 to 30 or more silvers a day, to one or two a day (or week ).

I guess you can say it doesn't take much to make me happy.

 

[hatpin]

The most I found was five mercury dimes. It was on an overlook above the Mississippi.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Thanks Monte for the nice article on the earlier hunts.
I started detecting in 65 and can remember those silver finds.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

N/T

 

[GRAY GHOST]

Hello all. To give you a short history, i started detecting in 1980 when i was 13, so i haven't been detecting quite as long as some of the other guys on here. We used to hit the parks, old fairgrounds, and older schools [anywhere we could get, really]and come out with pocketfuls of silver dimes, quarters, and once in a while half dollars. The old war nickels seemed to be everywhere, as though people didn't like them and threw them away, but were a little harder to find with the older machines, as were a lot of nickel type coins. Once in a while we'd pull some nice early 1800's coins out of the ground too. I know it sounds kinda dumb in today's age, but i got sick of digging indian head and wheat pennies! I remember [much to my chagrin] many times selling silver quarters for 40 cents apiece and silver dimes for 20 cents apiece, and 3 war nickels for 30 cents! Silver just wasn't worth that much like it is today, bringing only a small premium, and us young guys would detect our butts off, sell all of our finds and pay our bills and party with it. We just LOVED to search the old drive in theaters - they were always good.

Permission was easy to get. We could go almost anywhere! We always got a little more for our older coins. We didn't get a premium for wheat cents [even the real old ones] so we spent them as change. It wasn't that hard to find silver in your pocket change, either. I can remember the 40% silver half dollars in circulation into the mid - late 1980's! The old soda bottle tops and pulltabs were the bane of our existence, as no machine back then could disc them out all together. Lots of gold rings came out the ground too. Man, those were the days.... and i'm not old yet! If i'd have kept all that i found, i probably could have retired at 55.

So, nowadays, i keep all the good stuff, silver and relics i find. Not because of the metal's value, but because i've got to leave my kids something to fight over! Thanks for reading, and good luck!

 

[david bull]

Not with a detector,but at a c-store that I owned I kept ten rolls of dimes in my spare change.One morning I broke a roll into the register and they were all 1944.Ichecked the rest of the rolls and found four more, all 1943& 1944.Back in the Hunt brother days,eight or ten silvers a day was'nt uncommon.DBULL

 

[Monte]

1.. They passed away due to age.

2.. They simply got discouraged by the lack of excellent old coin recoveries and the abundance of too much modern trash and , simply, gave up. Quit!

3.. They could only appreciate the way things were, reflect on their contributions to promoting the hobby (by being out detecting a lot!), and just realize that in today's results, the single silver coin (or other oldie) is still a nice find to recover. Thus, the thrill is still there, and maybe even greater these days, so they (we) continue the search for the 'left-overs.'

1.. I'm not dead, yet.

2.. I love the hobby too much to just quit.

3.. This is the group I fit myself into.

All the best in 2012. Set some goals now for next year.

Monte

 

[Monte]

You, like me, just keep hanging in there for the thrill of the search, the fun in the results, and the hope to still chance upon a more dated coin. A truly great hobby!

Monte