What Should You Have Found By Now?

[Lowjiber]

I didn't read the zillion replies to this thread, so here's my opinion on "what you should have found" by now...

You should have a couple of coffee cans full of Zincolns... enough to weigh down your tent in a hurricane. Why? If you're skipping Zincolns, you're passing up a lot of good stuff because you're lazy.

You should have at least five hundred nickels too. Why? Because that's where the middle-carat rings are located. If you pass up nickel "hits", you're missing a lot of neat finds. (Just about every class ring in the world "rang up" in the nickel range.)

You should have a reasonable number of Wheaties, and should know exactly where you found them. Why? Where you find Wheaties, there is silver. Go back and get busy.

You should have dug enough aluminum pull-tabs to build a jetliner. Why? Cause that's where the tiny diamond rings (with gold settings) are located.

Finally, the best advice I've ever been given is in regard to low VDI readings on a White's machine. "If it's a solid 8... dig it." Those low, positive readings (below pull-tabs) are almost always high carat-weight gold. It rarely fails. Those readings are often overlooked because they are so close to iron (negative VDI's) that the detectorist ignores them. Don't.

[Nesdore]

That's good advice if I'm at a house I dig all mid tones and up no matter what have found some cool relics I'm also in search of them old nickles I've found Buffs no V or Shield yet but gotta keep trying

[OxShoeDrew]

Yep, at most cellar holes I dig every repeatable non-ferrous. Tombacs and gold are very low (like I dig a lot of gold )
Sometimes I dig iron at very old sites.

[Konadog]

I started a little over 7 months ago...mainly hunting two public places that were "built" in the late 1920's early 1930's.

Both have been hit before I got started I'm sure but...
Coins we've found there,,,1848 Seated dime....a couple Merc and Rosie dimes...1 SLQ ...a couple GW quarters...war nickels...buffalo nickels...older Jeffersons...wheaties.
rings galore incl. gold and silver and platinum.
Tokens from a hotel from the '20's
Foriegn coins...modern and older issues
French military medal (don't ask me how it came to be in south Louisiana...lol)

I realize the site's probably don't have the "age" for them to be plentiful but an IH penny is about the only coin that we haven't found there

[mownomo]

Just a week to go....I hope everyone has found their elusive item. Al, still no draped? You only dig colonial coins
How old ARE you mownomo?
An indian would be reasonable in Ohio...right Nesdore?...wait...your signature says you found 19 this year!!??

I'm only 72, but feel like a large cent, corroded and lost in the dirt.

[Pacivilwarluke]

I've been blessed with finding some good finds, but these sorta simple finds have eluded me so far
shield nickel
brass toe tap
complete shoe buckle

[BTV Digger]

Got several coins from the mid to 1800s, but never found any Barbers yet. (Been detecting only 2 yrs). Strange as I hit the older cellar holes quite frequently. I'm keeping positive though, this year is the year!

John

[leslie(nova scotia)]

Only thing I have not dug in 44 years atthis great hobby is a 20 cent piece...only out a year or 2 here.

[OxShoeDrew]

I hope this is the year for you guys to find those things
...Les, I didn't know there was a $20 cent piece
I guess the 1875 would be the only one we could hope for... with a mintage of just over a million.

[Mr. Digger]

I have found a seated quarter and a barber quarter but never a SLQ...that one is at the top of my list.

[gcsod45]

I have found lots of rings (silver and gold) but never a diamond.

[don in ny]

In the last year or two I've found a seated half dime, seated dimes, seated quarters and a seated half. Have also found close to 50 large cents and more than 20 colonials. Also found 8 pieces of Spanish silver including half, one and two reals. I'd really like to find some bust silver, a half cent and one of those early fat large cents from 93-94. I've found everything around these pieces, just haven't managed to swing the coil over one of these. Of course who wouldn't want to find any US gold coin, myself included.

[Isaac]

legible colonial copper