When searching old farm land be sure you are in crop fields

[jabbo]

and not in portions of land that was cleared strictly for fire wood. The crop field portions is where the old coins are, the fire wood portions have almost no old coins, maybe a few modern coins and pull tabs. Jabbo

 

[ironsight]

Admittedly i've searched few farm fields. The ones i have searched produced only broke-off pieces of farm equipment.
If you're gonna search a farm field IMO it has to have had a history such as a one room school house, fairgrounds, homestead or church on it at one time.

 

[jabbo]

I dug up lots of 1700's King George pennies/half pennies in old crop fields at farms. Some of the land was for firewood only and never was planted. Today, the firewood section may have younger trees than the surrounding woods.

 

[ironsight]

My area wasn't heavily settled til mid to late 1800s which leaves out any King George's.
If i found a King George around here i think i'd........

Most of the agriculture back in the 1700s was done by a farmer walk plowing behind a beast of burden and planting by hand. Which means a greater chance of dropping coins, etc. Adding to that, a crop field today located on one of the Eastern States might of had homesteads, etc. on it which were'nt indicated on the crude if any maps back then.

Here, agriculture didn't take off in a big way until the early 1900s which means mechanized farm machinery which means less coin drops in the crop fields but plenty of broken off iron farm machinery pieces to be found. The few pioneers that first settled here lived off hunting game which was abundant and eventually planted small crop plots.

Location, location, location.