Where's your silver coming from?

[OkieDigger]

When I first got it, I couldn't find any silver. The problem was I kept going to sites I had hit very hard with the DFX and MXT. I found some wheats, but no silver. I'm one of those dig it all kind of people, at least until I got the E-Trac. Once I started going to new sites (though they were hunted by others) I then started finding the silvers. Those parks where you live should be excellent hunting grounds.

[bmattioli]

Thanks Dale, I'll be going to all my favorite spots and see what I missed. I'm sure there will be a coin or two..

[z118]

I'm hoping to hit 50 silver coins this year... which is more than double what I have found in the first two years I spent detecting.

At least 90% of my silver finds this year have come from school yards. I've been hitting a bunch regularly since I started swinging. I weeded out most of the clad with the Tracker IV and now I go low and slow with the Sov. I was lucky to find a school that I had overlooked until this year that in 17 hunts has given up 17 silver coins and 11 pieces of silver jewelry. Most of the schools that I have luck in were built in the late 50's or early 60's, so I get mostly Rosies and Mercs. But you never know what else might pop up.

[Jason in Enid]

My silver has come from a mix of parks, schools and homesites. ALL my silver halves have come from home sites. OK, one was from an apartment complex, but thats like a home site, kinda. Man I wish they hadn't turned that into a bank already.

[CyberSage]

I would say that about 60 percent of my Silver came from parkway strips of grass between the sidewalk and curb. 30 percent came from old parks, and the remainder from private properties. I have not hunted many private properties. Most of this Silver is Dimes, followed by rings and then Quarters and miscellaneous items. The miscellaneous Silver is made up of religious medals, earings, and pendants etc. On a side note, the Silver found on private property contained some of the nicer coins.

Jack

[grinsebring]

Most of mine here in Florida comes from the old beaches. The parks and old homesites are nothing but sand. Finding a rock while digging is fairly uncommon. I would guess the sink rate of a coin
is at record pace around here. The beaches where the water receded over the last three years are more or less mucky sand.
Leaves and other decomposed organic debris sort of made it more dense. The silvers and most of the wheats have been very deep. A lot of luck involved in finding them.
I just was given permission to hunt 2 homes taken by a nearby city for taxes. Both are late 1800s early 1900s vintage. I will give them a runover as soon as I can GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE! I feel better. At some point they will be leveled and the lots graded.
Silver near the surface is not uncommon up in new england and other arctic zones. The ground frost pushes them back to the top
every so often. Most of my good finds in NH and Mass have been near the top. 6 inches in 200 years is a slow sink rate I would think some of them were down quite deep and came back up one extra cold winter..... Good subject....Gil

[Bentfork]

I mentioned to OkieDigger that I have been hammering the parks here in Oklahoma City area - that is when I can get out. Most of them that I have been hunting have been around 75 yrs+. I like OkieDigger have found very few in the parks. He's probably right about the parks in Oklahoma. They have been pounded to death. The majority I've found since I moved here have been on private property via an invitation.

[SeabeeRon]

Well of the very few I have found, one came from the old High School I attneded and the others from the beach.

[rcasio44]

I live about 40 miles southwest of Chicago and the only place for me to find silver is in private yards. Once you get 100 miles south of me it different. My wife and I go on camping trips with two detector friends. The small towns still have undetected sites and each trip usually produces silver. rob

[SE Sweeper]

I get a chuckle when I think about how hard it is for me to find silver where I live. So far this year I have found 19 silver coins. Of those, only four came from Oklahoma where I live. The rest have all been on trips out of state! Anyone else have this problem

I have my good and bad spells. Of course it depends where you are hunting most of the time. I have two friends who find 5 to 10 times more silver than I do at the same sights. They have a knack that I have not found out yet. However, I find enough silver to keep it interestingat parks,farm fields and fair grounds here in Indiana.

[Jason in Enid]

I was looking at my silver finds since I got my E-Trac. It turns out that I have found 6 silvers in five weeks of hunting, so I am doing better than I have ever done in the past. It still gets frustrating when it's been almost 2 weeks between some finds, but my overall rate has improved a lot.

But I have to agree with OkieDigger..... Oklahoma just doesn't seem to have the quantity of silver as other places. I think it has to do with the nature of our settelment. Most of our state was settleed through a series of free land giveaways. I think that most of the people who came to settle here, simply didn't have any amount of money to lose and tended to be much more frugal.

[coinnut]

Most of our state was settleed through a series of free land giveaways. I think that most of the people who came to settle here, simply didn't have any amount of money to lose and tended to be much more frugal.

Hey Jason, just a thought, but if you can determine when money started to be more plentiful, (say 1900's), then maybe you could concentrate on finding places in that time period, as opposed to the oldest settlements in town. That way your coin count (and silver count) may increase. Just a thought. My wife always tells me to stop thinking lol

[OkieDigger]

Hey Jason, just a thought, but if you can determine when money started to be more plentiful, (say 1900's), then maybe you could concentrate on finding places in that time period, as opposed to the oldest settlements in town. That way your coin count (and silver count) may increase. Just a thought. My wife always tells me to stop thinking lol

Coinnut, Oklahoma wasn't a state until 1907. Everything here is of that time period. lol

[coinnut]

Coinnut, Oklahoma wasn't a state until 1907. Everything here is of that time period. lol

A state in 1907, but it must have been settled much sooner than 1907 Or are all those coyboy films I watched as a kid lying?? lol

[BHNugget]

A state in 1907, but it must have been settled much sooner than 1907 Or are all those coyboy films I watched as a kid lying?? lol

Yep, OK has quite a bit of history that predates statehood.The Spanish were known to frequent the area which is a history era in itself, not to mention the James gang,the Dalton Gang,Army Calvary Forts,and at least one Confederacy fort and numerous ghost towns.

[OkieDigger]

Yep, OK has quite a bit of history that predates statehood.The Spanish were known to frequent the area which is a history era in itself, not to mention the James gang,the Dalton Gang,Army Calvary Forts,and at least one Confederacy fort and numerous ghost towns.

Technically there were SOME white people in the state before 1907, but not very many at all and in places long since gone or on private property. Most towns here were settled around the 1890's or later. Most didn't have many people until well after 1900 and even then, a lot of those people didn't have a lot of money. As for the Spanish in Oklahoma, yeah, they were here, but what can you really find of them? Not much. As for the outlaws, even they weren't around these parts until the 1890's or later. Doolin and the Daltons visted the area I'm in numerous times, but that was only 100 years ago and there weren't a lot of people here then. It's just not a great place for detecting. crying01

[TimC]

Silver around here is probably as tough as it is for Epi in Kentucky. Everyone around here was probably far to poor, having to farm cotton and pick it all day only earning pennies per day for this extremely hard life. They spent all they had on making ends meet. In short no one had money to lose.

[Stang1968]

I've gotten a grand total of one silver coin this year- a barely recognizable mercury dime from the mouth of an alley way. The gravel obliterated any and all detail on the coin. you can only faintly see the shape of winged liberty on the obverse.

[del]

Arizona wasn't a state until 1912 (thats where i'm originally from) but there were alot of places to research and detect that are alot older with activity , the spanish were there since the 1500's through the 1700's there were many old spanish missions and villiages that are now gone.then in the mid 1800's the U.S calvary forts came ( which were very active and steady supplies of currency made their way there) plenty of gold rushers , bandits , bankrobbers , old mining towns that are now empty . you dig hard enough with the research you'll be amazed at how much history is in your area .

[coinnut]

Technically there were SOME white people in the state before 1907, but not very many at all and in places long since gone or on private property. Most towns here were settled around the 1890's or later. Most didn't have many people until well after 1900 and even then, a lot of those people didn't have a lot of money. As for the Spanish in Oklahoma, yeah, they were here, but what can you really find of them? Not much. As for the outlaws, even they weren't around these parts until the 1890's or later. Doolin and the Daltons visted the area I'm in numerous times, but that was only 100 years ago and there weren't a lot of people here then. It's just not a great place for detecting. crying01

Wow, it's time to move lol lol lol We were trying to THINK POSITIVE for ya, but it's hopeless It must drive you nuts to see all those old coins posted here. Come on...let's dig deep into that area's history and find some old stuff. thumbsup01