Who has found a silver dollar with a Vaquero?

[hatpin]

How do I question this. Do they sound like coins? Is it easy to mistake a silver dollar for a crushed aluminum can?

 

[DirtAngler]

Don't know but probably yes. Don't see many finding silver dollars with any detector, they are rare finds.

 

[MarkCZ]

Silver dollars are VERY rare to find, but in the audio department they should sound like a half dollar. Silver dollars are so large that when they got dropped they would just get picked right back up again.
Next was the fact that they were so large not many people wanted to carry them in their pockets.
I hear of more people finding them in a cache than alone, many people when they got them would bring them home and put them away somewhere.
The small cache's turn up sometimes from old house sites where the home burnt.
My friend co-worker found one left behind from a house fire,
I think my brother has found two (maybe only one).
I've never found one in my detecting life! (I've only found three half dollars) and that's sense the early 1980's.
Many people will NEVER find a silver dollar, halfs are hard enough to come across.
But, we keep looking!, they are out there, somewhere! maybe the next hole who knows.

Mark

 

[slingshot]

Back in the 70's I was using the AH Pro. If you're not familiar with it, it was the first accurate pulltab discriminator and if you set the threshhold to a constant hum, you could pick up a quarter at 5". In other words, it wasn't a depth monster. I was out searching a fairground site and wandered out to the older part of the fairgrounds. I got a HUGE signal and said to myself-"aluminum can". Raising the coil, I still got a signal 4" above the ground. I took my hunting knife and plunged the 6" shaft into the ground and -nothing! Digging the 6" plug, I plunged the shaft another 6" and "clack"! The sound was kinda sickening because it sounded like a coin. I pulled an 1880's silver dollar from that hole. You gotta remember I was picking this thing up at 16" and it HAD to be an aluminum can to my mind. The gash in the coin wasn't very pretty either.

 

[hatpin]

I have found 1 silver half years ago when first started and a couple of clads since. Ive been hunting an area with old coins and cans both aluminum and rusty. Ive been trying to not dig them. I wish I had a silver dollar just to listen to it.

 

[WV62]

I think my brother has found two (maybe only one).

Mark

Brother Ron here, I have found 1 silver $, 1 clad $, and I only got 3 silver half $. None of them was with the Vaquero, it was back in my White's days, now days I am using a Tejon and a couple of fishers.

Big silver or even big clad is not hard to find but like said earlier hard to loose.

Ron in WV

 

[thump7]

In Canada we have the 1$ and 2$ coins. I find them all over the place and they account for over half of my clad count at the end of the year. They sound good and I find them deep, very deep at times. I try not to come home with less than $5 or $10.
I was discussing how kids loose money here with a friend I have in the States. He told me that the kids over there are quite different than they are here. Over there they hold onto their money better, while here they don't have as much respect for it [as well as their parents].
Very few silver dollars being found here too though, with as tough as it is to try and find old silver, I think easy silver targets are being passed up as overload signals. Nearly did that myself once with a silver Quarter at an inch or so deep.

 

[mike5853]

I found a couple silver dollars. They hit hard, both were only 3 - 4 inches down. Like others have said they're a rare find. Keep in mind it's best in most cases to dig it all. Unless you're cherry picking, the old saying is so very true - "If you're not diggin' trash, you're not diggin' treasure".

 

[Minas man]

Last season I learned to go for crushed can sound and that Vaquero found me over $30 worth of $1 and $2 Canadian non silver coins. Those large coins make big contribution to the days total.

Minas man