Have only rarely been able to find silver. I found a lot of clad and this past month found about 6 wheaties, but have only found 2 silver coins over the bast six months. I am using a Vaquero with a stock coil, and find many nickels, bullet shells, and pull tabs, but little silver. I have super-tuned, used all metal, and high DISC to weed-out trash, but not much luck. Wonder if people just haven't lost silver where I look?
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Not finding silver!
- Thread starter homebre
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I would say just keep goin at it and see what happens. I've had the Vaquero for almost two years and still don't have a lot of silver to show for it. People say frequency doesn't have that big an effect, but I think the vaquero being at 14 kHz does show some trouble at hitting hard on silver. It seems as though a silver coin has to be pretty flat in the ground to get picked up.
I've wondered about this topic myself...then, after reading a lot of posts, I determined there are few silver coins where i'm hunting. Seems the guys that really focus on old silver, do a lot of research, go deep and slow, and generally pass on anything but deep silver signals. Then you read some posts about how there are detectors or a different smaller coil that can unmask silver next to a nail, and think, maybe I'll get one of those? Then, I think its an awful lot of fun just going after any and all signals, getting good with the machine, and accidentally tripping across an odd silver every once in a while, some surprisingly shallow...I do tend to concentrate in areas where I find a wheat penny, and try to slow down and listen. One of these days you will accidentally stumble upon a plot of old dirt, and those silvers will be there waiting for you!
Mud
Mud
Have you noticed the word SILVER as in Silver UMax? That little puppy eats silver.. However, the detector is a Vaquero..In a lot of areas, silver is rare because of the economic conditions that existed when silver was coinage.I run high Sensitivity, threshold back a bit, disc above iron's O,,,, and slowly scrub the ground..If the silver is there, the "V" is deep.and will get it......Trick is to slow down...The opposite of safe aircraft flying....high and fast.. Detecting low and slow, even with a clean sweep.
Sven
Well-known member
I have found 1 silver coin over the past year, don't really care if no more were found.
Found lots of clad, silver rings, chains and two gold rings last year, more than made up for it.
I have been working hard hit cleaned out so to speak areas............
Yeah, I know you don't get the same feeling as finding an old silver coin, especially from the 1870's and earlier.
I need to do some research and maybe get lucky with some old untouched sites. Maybe some woods, trail sites
before the weeds and leaves come out..........
Don't fret about not finding silver coins, concentrate on any finding targets. When you least expect it, a silver coin will
pop out of the ground...................go out and have fun.
Found lots of clad, silver rings, chains and two gold rings last year, more than made up for it.
I have been working hard hit cleaned out so to speak areas............
Yeah, I know you don't get the same feeling as finding an old silver coin, especially from the 1870's and earlier.
I need to do some research and maybe get lucky with some old untouched sites. Maybe some woods, trail sites
before the weeds and leaves come out..........
Don't fret about not finding silver coins, concentrate on any finding targets. When you least expect it, a silver coin will
pop out of the ground...................go out and have fun.
Yeah, what Sven said! Look at it this way...lets say you find 100 silver dimes, thats quite a feat! great work eh? But unless theres a key date collectible in there, the street value is what, $300.00? Now we all know a half way decent totlotter and cladstabber can pull 300 bucks clad in about four months, even less time than that for the guys who live where there are one and two dollar coins, euros etc...let alone the miscellaneous jewelry of the gold and silvery sort...so I guess its just what trips your trigger, some fellows like to hunt old silver, and some just like to hunt!
Mud
Mud
yowow#1 said:
I've been questioning myself how much the frequency can effect the chances at finding some of the deeper silver at least. I have found silver with my Vaquero, but they were flat enough and everything to be easily found. I bought an older Whites Eagle Spectrum off a friend for cheap and might use that as my silver finder
BarberBill
New member
Consider how long it's been since silver coins were taken out of circulation versus how many of those years people have been detecting for them. They've been a diminishing resources since the early 60s.
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atomicscott
Active member
i think Bobby is correct. My F2 at 6.7khz hit nicely on silver, but not on small gold jewelry. My Vaq does hit pretty good on silver in air tests and I have a found a silver charm about 4" down, but it was fairly good sized, a bit larger than a quarter.Bobby s said:
BarberBill
New member
Hombre, I was a bit older, but looking back it's been 50 years or so. Man, the time has gone by pretty fast.homebre said:It wasn't long ago, I was a teenager!!
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SpiritRelic
New member
Silver coins are just very elusive.It is only after some hard searching at the right spot do we find silver.The vaq hits good on silver coins.If you want deep coins.The vaquero will do it.Trust me.This detector will dive deep for silver more than most detectors on the market costing three times as much.And the vaquero is still deeper.I have been messing with this stuff for awhile.The vaquero will hit on silver just fine.The low freq,you would need for a detector that is not that deep.The vaquero is one of the deepest out there.I don't have one now,but i found no problem in getting any deep coin with one.The only thing i do not like much about the vaquero is a deep 9" coin sounds like it is 1" deep. :-D
The Magician
New member
What coil were you using? As soon as I bought larger coils for my Golden, I started finding more silver, much more. I know it's a different detector, but I was in the same situation, struggling to find silver. Lots of known silver finders use larger coils.