Coins/hour in a relatively unhunted park?

My personal best was about 125 coins in a couple hours, all new and all near the surface. If you're getting that puny of returns, the park is most likely not unhunted, and/or not very many users over the years. try to look at the park from a different perspective and think of where people would congregate. Sometimes going to the library and looking up old photo's of events in the past will give you some spots to check.

As for pennies being eaten, well since 1982 they are copper plated zinc and get eaten up quickly. As for older copper, the ground mineralization will differ in different parts of the country. Also, I have noticed that at old sites, if the plaster walls have been covering soil the coins underneath haven't gotten as much moisture over the years, and turn up better sometimes. I flip all tin sheets and plywood I see, too.
 

DP,

I've had days where I dug 2-3 coins in an hour (I'd throw a coin on the ground to make sure my machine was still working!) and others when a coin every couple of minutes (admittedly mostly pennies) wasn't unusual...both at the same 1920's school yard! Just because the area wasn't productive today doesn't mean it won't be next time. Moisture conditions, direction you're swinging, your mental attentiveness, the spin of the electrons <smile here>, all make a difference and change from day-to-day...go back, hit that park again and your "luck" may be totally different!

Jeffro is right about the zinc pennies...if they've been in the ground almost any amount of time, they can come out looking as if they'd been eaten by acid. I have a couple that almost 1/4 of the penny is gone...they look almost like a "PacMan".

Good luck next time!!

Batch
 

DP,

I think Batch hit it right on the head.

I've had morning where the first thing I do when I
get up is check on how the electrons are spinning.

If them electrons are acting funny I don't even
bother using the detector that day ;)

Welcome to the forum.

have a good un................
 

Produced roughly twice as may coins today in the same timespan. Round 90 cents as opposed to 15 yesterday. If I can get my lazy rear up in the morning, maybe I can get to the playground bit before the kids do. As far as the park, I'm doing this in Audubon Park in New Orleans. Looks to be pretty high traffic, at least now, and I know the golf course opened in 1898, so the park has to be relatively old.
 

I USED TO DO SOME DIGGING AT THE CITY PARK THERE IN NEW ORLEANS, FOUND 108 COINS IN ONE AFTER NOON, EARLIEST ONE BEING A 48 WHEATIE, GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AT, WHERE THEY FEED THE DUCKS, FISH, EVEN THE OLD AMUSMENT PARK THERE. BETER YET GO DOWN TOWN IN THE EVENINGS AND DO THE NUTRAL GROUND....BETWEEN THE ROADS, ANOTHER GOOD SPOT WOULD BE ANY OF THE OLD HOUSEING PROJECTS...AFTER THE HURRICAN I WOUNDER IF ANYBODY MOVED BACK INTO THEM....ALSO ANY, AND I MEAN ANY CONSTRUCTION SITES THAT YOU CAN GET PERMISSION TO DO. PARKS IN THE GARDEN DISTRICT, ANY SITE NEAR ANY OF THE OLD BATTLES, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK.....SOMETIMES I WISH I WOULD HAVE DONE ALOT MORE DETECTING WHEN I WAS DOWN THERE.
HAPPY HUNTING
LGP
 

LONE GUNMAN said:
I USED TO DO SOME DIGGING AT THE CITY PARK THERE IN NEW ORLEANS, FOUND 108 COINS IN ONE AFTER NOON, EARLIEST ONE BEING A 48 WHEATIE, GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AT, WHERE THEY FEED THE DUCKS, FISH, EVEN THE OLD AMUSMENT PARK THERE. BETER YET GO DOWN TOWN IN THE EVENINGS AND DO THE NUTRAL GROUND....BETWEEN THE ROADS, ANOTHER GOOD SPOT WOULD BE ANY OF THE OLD HOUSEING PROJECTS...AFTER THE HURRICAN I WOUNDER IF ANYBODY MOVED BACK INTO THEM....ALSO ANY, AND I MEAN ANY CONSTRUCTION SITES THAT YOU CAN GET PERMISSION TO DO. PARKS IN THE GARDEN DISTRICT, ANY SITE NEAR ANY OF THE OLD BATTLES, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK.....SOMETIMES I WISH I WOULD HAVE DONE ALOT MORE DETECTING WHEN I WAS DOWN THERE.
HAPPY HUNTING
LGP
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I'd really love to get around to any of the sites you mention, but I'm pretty well limited to what's within walking distance. Bloody university and their "No vehicles for freshman" policy. I have considered hitting the spots between the streetcar tracks on St. Charles, though...
 

My best coins per hour was not at a park but a summer camp. It was 29 coins per hour. I felt like I was always finding a new coin. I cannot imagine finding a coin a minute. Total was a little over $11.00.

Ed Donovan
 

Well you should have deduced by now that virgin parks were quite overloaded with coins. I am not going to depress you on what I found per hour in virgin parks. When you find a virgin high useage site you will be overwhelmed with silver coins.

You mentioned "freshman" parking. You aren't by chance a student at a university? If you are and have a campus see if you can detect there. Any grassy areas will do.

Your approach should be the same as gold dredgers- TEST-TEST-TEST. Spot test a lot of areas and if you start finding silver- slow down and completely detect the site.

George
 

The place you hunt makes all the difference in the world. My best would be about 30 coins in an hour.
Burdie
 

bakergeol said:
Well you should have deduced by now that virgin parks were quite overloaded with coins. I am not going to depress you on what I found per hour in virgin parks. When you find a virgin high useage site you will be overwhelmed with silver coins.

You mentioned "freshman" parking. You aren't by chance a student at a university? If you are and have a campus see if you can detect there. Any grassy areas will do.

Your approach should be the same as gold dredgers- TEST-TEST-TEST. Spot test a lot of areas and if you start finding silver- slow down and completely detect the site.

George
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Go ahead and depress me, it'll give me something to look forward to. And as for digging on campus, I don't really know how well they'd take to me excavating the quads. Can't pull the public land bit, as I decided to go to a private school for some reason. Could give it a shot, though. Not sure what they'd do besides say, "Hey, stopping digging holes everywhere." And as far as silver is concerned, at this point I'm happy with anything that is remotely a coin. New, old, foreign, Mardi Gras doubloons, if it's not a bottle cap or beer tab, I'm pretty stoked.
 

Many years ago(1967) I entered college and for some reason I resisted the temptation to detect on campus for some time. I guess I didn't want to appear as a Geek. I wondered what my friends would say if they saw me. Well one day(quarter break) I built up my nerve and detected around a choice spot. It was a war memorial where the students would sit around and chew the fat. I have forgotten the exact number of silver coins I found around the site that day(several dozen) but I do remember finding 6 barbers including a barber half. After that I didn't care what the other students thought.

Just my 2 cents
George
 

MAN I HAVE FOUND COINS AT THE BUS STOPS.....THAT IS ANOTHER WAY TO GET TO THE CITY PARK, ON ANY OF THE PARADE ROUTES, AND NEW ORLEANS IS FULL OF THEM IS GOOD PICKINS FOR ALMOST ANYTHING.....LIKE I SAID WATCH FOR ANY KIND OF CONSTRUCTION WORK, AND I AM SURE THERE IS ALOT OF IT DOWN THERE NOW.......YOUR LIMITATIONS DOWN THERE ARE ONLY IN YOUR MIND....LOOK FOR ANOTHER N.O. HUNTER AND SEE IF YOU CAN HOOK UP.
WHEN I WAS DOWN THERE I DID ALL MY HUNTING ON A BIKE, YOU CAN COVER ALOT OF AREA DOWN THERE ON A BIKE WITH YOUR MACHINE IN A BACK PACK....ANOTHER THING IS IF YOU CAN GET OUT OF TOWN TO OLD BEACHES OR DOCKS ALWAYS A GOOD PLACE TO LOOK.....HOPE THIS HELPED
HAPPY HUNTING
LGP
 

Speaking of bus stops.....LOL! reminds me of the time when I got skunked at a park, pretty much.... I was getting disgusted when I suddenly thought, "Hey, what about that bus stop over there?" I musta pulled about 20 or 30 dimes out of one little ten foot circle in nothing flat! I couldn't hardly swing without a hit.

Gonna have to do more of those in the future! :D
 

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