Why is it much harder to find silver quarters

[49er12]

We find some silver dimes, Mercury, etc but quarters rarely if at all,just curious, yes quarters where more valuable than dime more careful but point of the topic is conversation thanks

 

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[SusanMN]

I have always thought it was my personal curse (thirteen years, no silver quarters) but I expect other will say they have been cherry picked over the years. Dimes sound and may ring up just like pennies on some machines and so can be passed over, but nobody skips a quarter signal. I also think fewer quarter were lost because they were valued more and not given out to kids.

 

[CoinFetcher]

They are harder to lose - and they are easier targets for hunters to find

 

[49er12]

Interesting obvious value is more, larger coin, seat liberty’s never found , heck I find barber dimes recently

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, they are easier to spot when first dropped. The secret to finding larger silver today is to go to a spot that hasn't been hit before. There are millions of spots like that, but a lot of time you have to think "out of the box" to find them.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I can’t remember when I last found something more than a dime...

 

[Umbrahabitator]

To date, I have only found 4. However, they were all at the same location found within 5 minutes of each other. The location had never been searched before, was being maintained such that there was little to no trash, the lawn was large and well shaded, and had children in the early to mid-1900's. The stars basically have to align in just the right way.

 

[smokeythecat]

All mine with the exception of one were on farms, not near houses. One was on a CW battlefield. The one exception I found next door to where I live and it was a barber.

 

[40 Rounds]

I just got into the hobby this year but my very first silver coin was a 1940 Washington quarter. Then I found two mercury dimes in the next hole about 2 feet away. I thought this is easy. Been a while since I got a silver now. Got spoiled I guess

 

[Trezurehunter]

If someone dropped a quarter, it was easier to see than a dime, and they picked it back up, leaving fewer of them out in the dirt for us to find.

 

[DDancer]

Many moons ago Silver Quarters were very available, much like the modern ones now, however they are also the easiest of targets so they got scooped up first in common areas with very old machines. Smaller targets like dimes and pennies, even nickles, got lost in the junk with those older detectors so our newer ones are finding these missed items more often than the large silver which has been pretty much depleted in common areas. Like smoky said, you got to think outside the box on large silver anymore. I have less than a dozen quarters and only a couple came from common areas with a lot of junk, but there were a bunch of dimes and wheaties among st the slaw.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Silver quarters are super easy to find, you just have to find virgin dirt to detect, THAT is that hard part. I've dug lots of silver quarters over the years and the vast majority came from private yards. Keep in mind how much easier it is (physically) for a detector to hit on a quarter. Metal detecting has been a popular hobby since the 1960s, and those early machines could hit quarters far easier than dimes.

Not nearly as many old quarters left to hit, but they are still there. I dug an SLQ last week, but its been a while since I have done that.