I find Wheaties but not much else

leep33

leep33

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Hi, I haven't posted on here in a long time due to the fact that until this year I haven't done very much coin hunting with my metal detector. Anyway here is my question. I go to schools and parks and an old abandoned bar down the road and all I ever find is pocket change and occasionally a few Wheat pennies. I never find any silver coins at all. What gives. I mean I'm sure that if people droped the wheat pennies years ago then they surely dropped some silver Roosevelt dimes and Washington Quarters. What gives. Any advice.
 

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I think what you have experienced is a very common occurrence. This happens to me quite a bit especially when hunting existing older homes(built in the 20's &30's). The only good thing about wheaties are that you know silver is a least possible at the site being worked. When hunting parks and such I have always assumed the wheaties are much more common because many of them tend to fall very close to the "tab" range on the discrim so they are missed much more often by others who run their machines at the higher pulltab settings. I seem to average one silver coin for every 10-20 wheaties.
 

Could be two things:

A.) Someone is beating you there. I hunt parks and I find a LOT of pennies. That's because several other guys have and do hunt there and the "low hanging fruit" has been harvested. Pennies and nickels seem to be left by the other guys. Keeps me busy.

2.) You haven't hit them square, yet. It is impossible to cover 100% of an area. We sweep an area and probably 80% of the soil 4" deep never passes through our field. To do 100% you'd have to sweep and move the coil 1/3 of it's diameter forward and sweep again. Few of us are that patient. Go back over the same spots.


Luckily the solution for both is the same: KEEP HUNTING. I just found my first silver for this year. The ratio is probably 300 to one for clad vs. silver in the dime & up coins in "my" parks. If you are finding wheaties at least you're in a potential spot. I agree with LimeGold that it may be 20 wheaties to the Rosie. ;D

Some tips:

Use headphones.

Bury a few dimes in a test garden at 6" & 8" and practice on those. Vary the detector settings and see what works best for you.

Hunt a day after it rained.
 

Leep33, don't be too discouraged as silver is elusive compared to pennies/clad. When I coin hunt and find older pennies, only one thought goes through my mind...

"When wheaties are here, silver is near."

Good luck and HH,

Jim.
 

Pretty much what they said....but I'll add....

Drop a silver dime and a penny in the grass....which do you spot easily? Figure if someone lost a pocket full of change...they easily picked up their silver. Pennies may have gone unnoticed.

But I too agree....where there's wheaties..... :thumbsup:

Al
 

at least you are finding Wheaties, my lifetime silver count is 2 and 10 Wheaties. sometimes I wonder why I keep thinking I am gonna find some nice old coins but I never do.
 

Thank you guys, all of you for your advice. I'll try your suggestions and I'll keep looking. They got to be out there somewhere. :thumbsup:
 

I'll add a question or 2...

Do you possibly have the discrimination set too high, and do you dig all signals?

I agree with all the others have said for sure, and usually if you can find several wheats there will be at least one straggler silver...

Keep at it, you'll find em!

Grip
 

I have the discrimination generally set in the 1 to 3 o'clock position. I dig every signal that is a solid one. Sometimes I'll get 1 or 2 beeps antd then go back over it again and again and it doesn't beep anymore so I won't dig it. Should I?
 

I've had spots where there were only pennies. Figure someone else went through and dug all the silver. Some people won't bother digging pennies, so thats all thats left.
 

So far this year I have not found any silver. I have found a couple of wheaties so I am in the same boat that you are in...Matt
 

Get a silver dime, and use it as a test sample. You'll get one eventually, took most of us a while before our first was found.
 

I have posted this once before concerning all the wheat backs still being found compared to very little silver. I was one of the old guys that help deplete the silver back in the late 60's to the 70's. I stopped hunting in 1989 because by then there was a lot more guys looking and you also found much more clad and little silver. What amazes me is the number of wheat backs still being found but hardly any silver. Even in the 60's and 70's the ratio was about 6 to 10 pennies or so to each silver coin. How did we miss so many wheat backs and yet little silver is being found? Any ideas?
 

I stopped MDing about 12yrs ago when I sold my old Garrett Groundhog. A month and a half ago I decided to start hunting again. I bought a Prizm III and have been hunting every chance I get. I have found a lot of clad and a 10k wedding band, but no sil ver and only 2 wheats. The big difference I noticed from 12yrs ago is that I am now digging clad at the same depth I used to dig silver. I will get a solid hit and dig 4"-6" and out pops a clad quarter or dime. I think that over the 12yrs the silver has sunken deeper and will take more patience to find it.
 

BillW313 said:
I stopped MDing about 12yrs ago when I sold my old Garrett Groundhog. A month and a half ago I decided to start hunting again. I bought a Prizm III and have been hunting every chance I get. I have found a lot of clad and a 10k wedding band, but no sil ver and only 2 wheats. The big difference I noticed from 12yrs ago is that I am now digging clad at the same depth I used to dig silver. I will get a solid hit and dig 4"-6" and out pops a clad quarter or dime. I think that over the 12yrs the silver has sunken deeper and will take more patience to find it.
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That's what I was thinking also. ???
 

There is still silver to find,if you are in the right spots.If you are finding wheats from the 30's and 40's at a spot,you will find silver there.Last year I found almost 150 silver coins,some people on this forum found 300-400 silvers last year.I've found silver coins at 2" and few feet away clad at 7-8" .You just can never tell.Find an older site and work and the silver will come.HH
 

this year I have about 97 wheats, and only 11 silver, so I am seeing a ratio of about one silver to each 9 wheats.
I think most places have just been hunted before, no matter what story you hear about it never being hunted.
 

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