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Where are your favorite places to hunt old coins?

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coolhandluke

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You don't have the give the GPS coordinates of your favorite honey hole. I'm just curious what "type" of setting is producing the best for you. Parks? Schools? Beach? Private land? Public land? Private homes? Downtown? Suburbs? Country? etc. etc.

Since I got my E-Trac I've been to two Parks and recovered a few dozen post 1959 pennies and a half dozen post 1970 dimes from the dirt. Not under the swings or bleachers or other areas that may be considered easier for modern coins. I was out looking for the older stuff. Of both parks I don't think I ran my coil over more than a 1000 square feet. Of all the available land space in these two locations I only looked at a speck of it.

Where do you get your best finds?
 
I've been hunting lately on a fresh water beach on privately owned land, but open to the public.
Been going there for two months or so.
The beach is about 1 mile long in a horseshoe shape.

At first I tried the area were most everyone goes swimming.
All I ever found there was clad coins and some junk jewelry.

Next I tried an area that people fish.
Junk, hooks, screws, sinkers etc.

Than I looked across at a more secluded area.
Decided to give it a try.
Within 20 minutes my wife and I found 1 silver qtr. 1 silver dime 3 wheat cents and 1 small gold ring!

Ya never know.

For the rest of the story read: http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,1415332

Good hunting

Denny
 
I like to hunt old homes and I walk through the woods and look for bottles and trash and I hunt those as well or old war fields or out here in utah we look for old home steds in the middle of no where or ghost towns
 
Old standing schools, existing parks and beaches, etc are all likely places to find coins, but it's also very likely that you are one of hundreds of detectorists that have had the same idea. I'm relatively new to the hobby, but for me the key to finding older coins has been to find places where people gathered, but have been gone for years and all but forgotten.
 
My favorite is an old picnic, dance hall, baseball field that is pre-1935. I've found 1 pull tab (modern) and 1 aluminum can there. Everything else is old - the newest coin is 1928 from that spot of close to 100 coins this last year. I have 2 parks that have consitently produced "First Settler Era" finds. Besides the old schools, other picnic areas I have 2 fairgrounds that have produced silver and another dance hall area that has produced a lot of wheats and silver dimes. It sure has been a blast and I'm looking forward to expanding to other old houses and dance hall areas that are now fields. I also have another field that was once a laid out town. All but about 3 of these spots are within 10-25 miles from home...and I live close to 25 miles from the nearest town. I just wished we'd been settled prior to 1880's.

NebTrac
 
I have two favorites: one a old house place that produced more coins than I can count. It is in the middle of nowhere with no modern roads going to it. Closest road was 4 1/2 miles of rough county. The oldest being and 1854 half dime, newest a 1920's wheatie. Lots of barbers, v nickels, and IH's. Second was a river crossing leaving an old fort. Found a lot of pre civilwar buttons and bullets...
 
I use to live close to some great history. Did some parks, homesteads, ghosttowns, my yard...
Moved away due to job circumstance, now I'm hardpressed to even find a wheatcent LOL

I've been researching ghosttowns in this "new" territory and it looks promising if I can get in touch with landowners and such... One of them could be really promising as it was nothing more than a party town for thirsty, thrillseeking cattle drivers, rustlers, bandits, etc... Ha no post office, no schools, no churches... just saloons, dancehalls, brothels... before Oklahoma statehood and therefore "lawless". Its a field now and hope to gain permission...

HH everyone
 
Several old parks that were around in the early 1800's, all are over 100 acres, and have been beat to death by everyone and their uncles. I still manage to pull seated's and Barber's out with consistency. They have not seen the wrath of my ET yet! If I want clad and earlier, coins from the 19th. century, I'll hit a couple schools in my area, or a few tot lots.........NGE
 
I really like hunting around old abandoned houses the best.
 
These are all great ideas! I have to keep compiling my research folder.

The thing about the 2nd park that intrigued me is that it is suppose to be one of the older parks in this town and people have been in this area since the 1600s.

The fact that I found so many modern coins in such a small search area seems to suggest that the park is not "hunted out" or these coins would have easily been picked off years ago. I was very selective and only dug strong FECO numbers that are known to produce coins. The few times I tried a "maybe" I got a bottle cap, foil, or other unwanted junk. The coin to dig ratio was extremely high. I think I dug about 25 individual holes and came home with 20 coins. I never made it 20 yards from my truck.

I'm thinking that perhaps the trash level is too high for the older detectors and their operators. Plenty of bottle caps around to discourage anyone who can't tell the difference.

I may hunt it again and look for less obvious places off the beaten path while I continue to do research on more productive sites. (by productive I mean finding the type of coins I want)

Any other ideas are very much appreciated. I'm sure this list will be helpful to anybody new to detecting. Thanks for the input.
 
Yards of old homes. Fun to meet folks and they seem to have a higher rate of good items when compared to easy access parks and schools.

Rich (Utah)
 
My favorite places are old parks and old houses dating prior to 1920. I have found some old camps and town sites in So Cal that have produced some decent stuff for us. I also like doing research on old stage coach stops around which have produced my oldest coins to date. Parks are great (especially the older ones) because they have a good chance of producing some gold and silver items.

HH........Rick
 
I have to agree with Rich, old houses are definetely my favorite. It's hard to find a public place that hasn't been hunted over and over since 1970. There are a lot of old houses that have NEVER been detected.
 
The best place I ever hunted was old boat launches.I have found more pre 1900 coins at these sites then any where.Most older boat launches are still around but not being used.Look around older lakes there are more then one on every lake.If your city has any old brick roads left thats another good spot for silver.Good Luck.
 
I've had good luck at the fields in front of old manufacturing plants. Before the days of break rooms and fast food joints, most of the employees would have lunch and breaks right out on the lawn. I've had an incredible number of silver pocket spills where I imagine some poor guy probably nodded off and lost most of a week's wage.
 
1st Old ghost towns
2nd Old schools
3rd old homestead
One doesn't have to dig pull tabs or aluminum bottle caps as often
And when a coin is found it is a good one. The worst thing I dug last year was a mercury dime.
 
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