still looking for a silver

[john sullivan]

i live on a 30 acre farm dated backed to 1850, original house, have search for maybe 10 hours, factory setting.
no silver. lots of relics a few clads but no silver. what is the possibility that there is no silver here?

 

[teleman2525]

I BET SOMETHING SILVER IS YET TO BE FOUND SOUNDS LIKE BIG AREA TO COVER NOT ONLY SILVER BUT INDIAN HEADS AND LARGE CENT KEEP A HUNTING THE HUNTS THE ADVENTURE

 

[MNCoinhunter]

There is bound to be silver there...keep trying. Some people are just seriously lucky, and some folks actually know what they are doing. Don't let anyone tell you that all the good stuff is deep. Dig it all !

 

[TokenDigger]

I think you will find some silver soon. Concentrate near the house and where people would congregate. If you can figure out where the outhouse was (usually behind the house and to the left), concentrate on the line between the back door and outhouse. Check around older tress where people would picnic or kids would climb or where there are sheds and outbuildings. Avoid the areas that were burn piles - you'll get too many signals that sound good but are trash. I found a nice Barber dime at a old farmhouse that was in a line between the front door and mail box. I bet you're finding some neat relics though and those are sometimes much more fun than coins. If you are finding wheaties and older relics, you are bound to find silver. It can be discouraging but keep it up and you will be rewarded. HH.

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Goes to Lowe's hardware store. I went there last week and picked up a couple of coat hooks. Went through one of those self check out stands, put in my five bucks and got a $1.68 back in change. Looked at one of the quarters and it was a 1964!! I made money on that trip. I'd say keep pounding that place and maybe there is some silver there. Don't give up and GL & HH.

Eddie

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I've hit home-sites dating to the 1850s, and walked away w/o a silver coin, even after multiple tries. Hard to imagine that the reason for this is that there were simply no silver coins lost there, in the last 150+ yrs, IF the home-site were continually used. I mean, one would THINK that ..... eventually ...... someone's gonna loose a coin, even if only a 1964 roosie

But the reason some sites that are even this old, might not be forthcoming with silver coins, is not because there simply aren't any there (although it's possible) but rather, that there is some prohibitive reason for them to be too difficult to find. Typcially it will be because the entire top layer of ground is utterly FILLED with trash or iron or both. Thus, the reason becomes, it's not worth the headache, so I usually leave for greener grounds (for example: places abandoned before 1900, which is before our modern "throw-away" age of aluminum, electrical, auto, etc... thus tending to be cleaner grounds).

Other reasons could be that a) the type soil/flora is either prohbitive jungle (can barely swing the coil anyplace), or the soil is moist enough that anything, is beyond your depth range b) someone already detected the place, and hammered the snot out of it, c) you're not skilled enough, and simply aren't getting the most out of your machine.

If the problem is due to masking of junk and iron, and since this site is your own property, there's nothing to stop you from "strip-mining" all the signals out of the most likely area. Ie.: even digging out the iron (in all metal mode), for instance, untill you are certain you have reached down to 8" or more. So like, if all you've dug is tabs, foil, clad, at 3" or less, and can't get a nail, or age indicator, or anything else deeper than that, then perhaps your detecting ability is what's the fault?

hard to say w/o being there.

 

[cz6aBill]

Check all the places TokenDigger says and go SLOW. I just got a Explorer and found out its not like anything else ive used it likes to go slow and has rewarded me well. Good luck sounds like a good spot.

 

[bbqman]

Keep at it , John. Very good advice above ! Good Luck !

 

[drkp88]

John, 30 acres is alot of ground. Concentrate on the obvious "activity" areas but don't disregard any area. You may not be aware of what was going on in the past in areas that don't look obvious now. If you have historical sources do a little research. Ten hours is not alot of time covering 30 acres. Maybe you're going too fast trying to cover alot of ground. Slow down and concentrate on one area at a time. There's probably some silver and alot of artifacts to be found.
Good luck and HH.
Bruce in Ct

 

[greasecarguy]

Have you tried throwing a silver coin on the ground and listening to it? this may help to "cement" in your mind what the desired target will sound like.....just an idea that i myself have used.

 

[Elton]

Yes it is possible no Silver..

 

[Cache Man]

I have been to a lot of homes, farms and not find any coins of any kind, in some areas they had no money to lose and in others I have found if they home had no children, they was no money lost I have found in my 25+ years that if they didn't have boys then I wasted my time detecting, boys = pockets and your chances increase on finding coins, I always do research to find out who, what when and were and every site that I have detected were they had no boys their was no coins to find of any kind, remember girls = dresses and no pockets. HH

 

[dewcon4414]

Tom has a point about density targets. Lighter targets will be closer to the surface much like beach hunting you have to get close to the hard pan where coins settle. Until you get past these surface items and remove targets that mask the deeper ones you might not find the older coins. A target as small as a staple can mask a deeper coin. I hunt some old homes that i ensure were gone prior to 1900. I find a LOT more coins.... why because there isnt any modern trash... just mostly copper, brass, and iron so you can pretty well dig it all except for the iron. Even then depth is an issue because of the iron and hot rocks.... so throw in modern trash and you can see how difficult it can be to sniff out the oldies. Relic hunters often have to stake off a section and remove 8 inches of soil to get down to those targets they are looking for. Ive always found hunting around drive ways, near the openings to barns, or in a side or back yard near trees where people hung out works. You have 30 acres..... but not all will be productive.

Dew