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1925 buffalo:thumbup:
- Thread starter flash5153
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Depends on where you're hunting. I have to admit, a site like that wouldn't be in my rotation for long. I have a few silver sites that I like where I only find 5-10 coins in an hour. That's about as low as I like to go.
Now since you're finding old coins and old tokens you should stick around until you figure out where there is a highest concentration of coins and get busy. There will surely be silver there.
Chris
Now since you're finding old coins and old tokens you should stick around until you figure out where there is a highest concentration of coins and get busy. There will surely be silver there.
Chris
RickIowa2009
New member
Great buffalo
The place I'm hunting can be very good one day and the next might not find a thing worth keeping. Its a very old dump/pig farm. There are targets everywhere,, 10's of 1000's of them. There are some/lots of old coins mixed among all this trash the problem is trying to choose the best digs. Not unusual to find 4-5 items in one hole. It really is a pain but some days are great. Could possibly find anything here, a gold coin would not stun me.
Even though only a few coins today,,,,, I was digging constant for all of them hours,cannot take a step with out getting a signal.
I have been hunting this place for a week or more.
Tomorow ,going to a friends house to detect. I tried her yard a few weeks back and found a merc in 20 minutes and had to leave.It will be nice to hunt in a place with the normal trash laying everywhere.
(I think she wants me to search more than just her yard) Must stay focused.
Good Luck
Even though only a few coins today,,,,, I was digging constant for all of them hours,cannot take a step with out getting a signal.
I have been hunting this place for a week or more.
Tomorow ,going to a friends house to detect. I tried her yard a few weeks back and found a merc in 20 minutes and had to leave.It will be nice to hunt in a place with the normal trash laying everywhere.
(I think she wants me to search more than just her yard) Must stay focused.Good Luck
Uncle Willy
New member
That is a long spell but due to the types of coins you recovered I'd say there is some silver there somewhere and you need to just make random searches until you locate coin spills or concentrations of coins. If it's a heavily hunted area those may be few and far between but it only takes one valuable coin to make it all worth while. Do you know the detecting history of this area? Has it been heavily pounded by experienced detectorists? What type of area is it and are there areas there where large groups of people would have congregated?
Bill
Bill
I have researched this area complete and know much about it. Very large area still being used heavily today at times but not all year long. Had a RR running through it pre 1900 , now long gone. Was also some Base Ball diamonds, now gone, with no sign to tell they was ever there.Also a dump and a pig farm, where they used to bring in the slop from the resterants from the area to feed the pigs. Coins, spoons and all kinds of stuff mixed amongest this slop.
Was told, there was pigs as far as one could see, they rooted down 2 ft and mixed all this stuff together. There is even more history but if I say I might have every
from the area out there.
Me and a friend have been detecting this place for over 6 years ,on and off. It really does get old. I have seen several people detecting but usually just get frustrated ,never to be seen again. I have heard though , that there was a couple that detected it for years and years on a daily basis.(in the late 70's or so)They must have figured it out ,about these coins. I bet they found some serious coinage.
Still it is such a large area and so much junk in the ground it will never be cleaned out. I still find silvers with no mask, a perfect signal, but they are few compared to the trash signals. We have found many Silver halves, some barbers, seems no one wanted to dig these large targets.
It is a nice place to have, for the most part there is no one around bugging and dont have to worry about hurting the grass,its well hidden and out in the sticks.
Good Luck
Was told, there was pigs as far as one could see, they rooted down 2 ft and mixed all this stuff together. There is even more history but if I say I might have every
from the area out there.Me and a friend have been detecting this place for over 6 years ,on and off. It really does get old. I have seen several people detecting but usually just get frustrated ,never to be seen again. I have heard though , that there was a couple that detected it for years and years on a daily basis.(in the late 70's or so)They must have figured it out ,about these coins. I bet they found some serious coinage.
Still it is such a large area and so much junk in the ground it will never be cleaned out. I still find silvers with no mask, a perfect signal, but they are few compared to the trash signals. We have found many Silver halves, some barbers, seems no one wanted to dig these large targets.
It is a nice place to have, for the most part there is no one around bugging and dont have to worry about hurting the grass,its well hidden and out in the sticks.
Good Luck
...depends on how you look at it, I guess. Your description makes it sound like one of those places you come back to season after season, and indeed you say you do just that.
Bill (Uncle Willy) brings up a great point, too; It's not just the history behind a site that matters, but the history of detecting on that site. As we've seen from his ongoing posts featuring all the old detectors, the hobby has been around long time. Odds are that any place which can be seen and known of by others is probably going to have been hunted before. How well, by whom and for how long makes a difference.
I hunted a site today that gave up nothing old, at all. One dog license from 1952 was found, but that is it. Still my partner insists it will yield silver, based on that one dog tag.. It doesn't matter that we hounded it with some of the best instruments money can buy, and we are neither of us newbies at this. He's sure there is more.
And that is the key. You keep going back and subjecting yourself to 4 coin, marathon sessions, why?
Because you are sure there is more.
You have found a productive spot and you have proven that perseverance there pays. Maybe not today, but surely tomorrow.
It is the root of what drive us.
SO is it worth it? Yeah, I'd reckon so.
Bill (Uncle Willy) brings up a great point, too; It's not just the history behind a site that matters, but the history of detecting on that site. As we've seen from his ongoing posts featuring all the old detectors, the hobby has been around long time. Odds are that any place which can be seen and known of by others is probably going to have been hunted before. How well, by whom and for how long makes a difference.
I hunted a site today that gave up nothing old, at all. One dog license from 1952 was found, but that is it. Still my partner insists it will yield silver, based on that one dog tag.. It doesn't matter that we hounded it with some of the best instruments money can buy, and we are neither of us newbies at this. He's sure there is more.
And that is the key. You keep going back and subjecting yourself to 4 coin, marathon sessions, why?
Because you are sure there is more.
You have found a productive spot and you have proven that perseverance there pays. Maybe not today, but surely tomorrow.
It is the root of what drive us.
SO is it worth it? Yeah, I'd reckon so.
TURNMASTER
Active member
Do you get the benifit of a mint mark on that Nickel. I hit a 25 a few weeks back with no mark at all and that was at 20x or so. Well that took the real value out of it and it was heavily worn so I polished it to a very nice shine. WOW what a pretty coin.
Wouldn't have polished it if it had any value.
I found an old site not to disimilar from what you describe. Been there 3x now for 2 wheats and less than a dollars worth of clad. 1 wheat was 1920 and I know there is silver there. So I will go back.
HH
Jeff
Wouldn't have polished it if it had any value.
I found an old site not to disimilar from what you describe. Been there 3x now for 2 wheats and less than a dollars worth of clad. 1 wheat was 1920 and I know there is silver there. So I will go back.
HH
Jeff
dahut: Yes I know what Uncle willy was saying and yes there has been a few that have detected it, like I said ,most gave up b4 they found anything and did not know what this place can give. The man and wife that hit it hard, Im sure did very well and picked most of the easy silvers. They did not dig the trashy signals,seems they cherry picked quarters and dimes and seems they did not dig 50 cent or dollar signals. For we have found many silver halves with perfect readings.
I dont know the exact number, but between me and the few I invite and hunt with me,,, have found at least 100 silver coins over the years at this place and we are still finding some that are not hidden. I was not complaining about 5 coins in 4 hours was just trying to show that I don't always do well for time spent and you have seen my post on finds. This place ,some days will give it up , them days it seems easy.
When I first found this place I detected it and almost gave up myself. All I could find was trash,and didnt know anything about its history. Thing that kept me going back was I only live 3 miles from it. I started finding some mercs and lots of old tokens and the rest is history.
TURNMASTER: The place you speak of. Try digging every signal for one hunt,yes the terrible ones, I'm assuming there are plenty of them. For me that is about all there is left ecept for an occasional great signal mixed tightly inbetween the bad ones. You Can tell if the junk is old for one and may find a old coin.Its alot of work but it might just pay off. Unlike any other place I have hunted. It is not uncommon to find 4-5 items in one hole along with a good coin and is accually what I'm hoping for. Its a terrible idea unless it pays off on a fairly regular basis and until you give a good effort this way ,, I would not give up on it. Good Luck with it.
I dont know the exact number, but between me and the few I invite and hunt with me,,, have found at least 100 silver coins over the years at this place and we are still finding some that are not hidden. I was not complaining about 5 coins in 4 hours was just trying to show that I don't always do well for time spent and you have seen my post on finds. This place ,some days will give it up , them days it seems easy.
When I first found this place I detected it and almost gave up myself. All I could find was trash,and didnt know anything about its history. Thing that kept me going back was I only live 3 miles from it. I started finding some mercs and lots of old tokens and the rest is history.
TURNMASTER: The place you speak of. Try digging every signal for one hunt,yes the terrible ones, I'm assuming there are plenty of them. For me that is about all there is left ecept for an occasional great signal mixed tightly inbetween the bad ones. You Can tell if the junk is old for one and may find a old coin.Its alot of work but it might just pay off. Unlike any other place I have hunted. It is not uncommon to find 4-5 items in one hole along with a good coin and is accually what I'm hoping for. Its a terrible idea unless it pays off on a fairly regular basis and until you give a good effort this way ,, I would not give up on it. Good Luck with it.
TURNMASTER
Active member
Thanks, but what was the mint mark on that nickel? Maybe it don't matter but I was just curios.
Jeff
Jeff
deepseeker442
New member
wtg on buffalo 
TURNMASTER
Active member
Yeah funny thing about that mint mark. Some years go 15 to 40 times value, look at 1913. I went to get a pic of the one i polished and the camera is dead.
I'll try later
Jeff
I'll try later
Jeff