Location

[herbajones]

Is it a fact that the colder northern states like Ohio and Michigan etc. are going to produce older shallower coins today than the warmer southern states like Texas etc? It seems that all the good finds are still being dug up north. Or am I just making excuses for myself? Or is it just the luck of finding good virgin locations? Maybe there are just a few people on this forum posting their finds and there are thousands that are not as fortunate that just read them.

 

[moonshine]

if you could look at a moving image of population density since 1790 there would be far more people/activity in the northeast US. more people = more lost items

look at this image for the year 1900:

http://maps.bpl.org/details_12382/?srch_query=1900&srch_fields=selected&srch_date=on&srch_style=fuzzy&srch_fa=save

 

[joedirt]

Yey! I'm in a black spot. Still haven't hit the mother load yet, but I'm trying.

Thanks for the link.

 

[nge]

YAY! I'm in the black also......NGE

 

[Jack Flynn]

Here's my theory on that. Up North where you can have snow on the ground about half the year. If anything was dropped in that half a year it stayed there and couldn't be found. People have been living where I'm at just about as long, just we don't have the snow and such. When the snow starts melting and you have mud a lot of stuff just goes under into the dirt/mud. It gets found later by detecting. Where I live in middle Georgia we hardly ever have snow so it gets picked up as eyeball finds a lot and then some by detectors. A couple of years ago my point was proved to me. We had a good bit of snow and ice. It stayed on the ground for about 3 days. When it melted the parking lots that were covered had a good many coins that were dropped just laying on the asphalt. The filling station parking lots a good many coins were laying in them. The one around the corner from me had a lot of coins in it. Makes a lot of sense................. Would you look for a silver dollar in 2 or 3 foot of snow? They didn't either back then, they didn't even know it had dropped

 

[Goes4ever]

Finding good spots is hardly luck......I put a lot of time into research, do a LOT of door knocking. I have done it so much I'm not scared to knock doors on any house no matter how nice the place is, I get surprised a lot of times at places I assumed they would say NO WAY, but the owner turns out to be real nice and grants permission. In this hobbty u got to be confident and talk to people. It really is NOT hard

 

[Digger]

Some may call it luck. But as G4E eluded to.......the more research I do, the luckier I get. HH Randy