Lot's of clad but no silver

[fdl]

Still being in the rookie stage (detecting about 3 months) I've hunted approx. 10 different sites from parks to old homesteads to my back yard which is an old homestead itself. I've found plenty of clad quarters,dimes & pennies(no nickels) plus various relics & trinkets. WHERES THE SILVER???? I did find 1 merc. dime that got chopped by a mower but that's it. I know...........be patent they'll come,BUT I think I may be doing something wrong like maybe not checking out "narrower" signals. When I sweep I'll get a faint,millisecond high beep but then it disappears or it will still be there but is followed by -6,-8 etc. Are silver coins generally at a greater depth then clad? I normally use the 9" 3kHz concentric due to moderate mineralized soil in my area although I do have a 10.5 MF DD & the standard 9" MF concentric. Sensitivity is set in the mid to upper 20's & I use GB tracking with threshold set at 8.
Maybe there just isn't any silver at these sights but man I sure do wonder........................

 

[Old Longhair]

Well, it's been my experience that silver often doesn't sink as fast or far as copper (which includes clad). If those faint or short tones are repeatable and pinpoint-able I'd dig 'em, but often those types of hits are the edges/corners of larger junk, which is one reason to pay particular attention to the null if you're running in Disc.

Other than that, if you're getting good depth on the coins that you find then you're not doing anything wrong, you just need to get your coil over it.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Yes, the silver coins will be a lil deeper then the clad, like a inch or two and even deeper. most times the silver and copper coins will be around 4" to 6" deep and I have found them as deep as 12"

When your MDing at a public place, like a school or park something to keep in mind. Most of the old coins that give off a good signal has been found or the old coins are super deep, 8" or deeper. If their still is any old coins there it's because they are giving off a iffy signal because they are being some what masked by something else close to the old coin or they are real deep and you have to listen for the faint whisper. To find the old coins you need to forget about the perfect signals and start digging some of the iffy signals and that's a trick to figure out which is a good iffy signal and what's a bad " do not dig " iffy signal...

 

[7centsworth]

They will come you just may have not went over any yet.

 

[fdl]

Thanks for the responses everyone.....I'll just keep on doing what I have been but pay more attention to those "narrower" tones & digging more holes too.