I purchased my E-Trac in January, and since then I've been hitting the city parks on weekends that date back to the early 1900s. While my clad count is 1500+, my old coin finds are just two silvers and 12 wheaties. I think my E-Trac skills are pretty good, so I suspect its because I've focused on the "tried and true" areas within a park (e.g., around the base of old trees) that everyone has hunted. If my assumption is correct then in order to accelerate my old coin finds, I believe I need to start looking in places that haven't been hunted as much. For example some of these parks have very steep hills, so I suspect that many detectorist will likely avoid these difficult areas. Also there's a lot of acreage to cover in open fields, so I believe they are less likely to have been hunted out completely.
Can anyone comment on where they're finding the most old coins regularly in "hunted out" parks? I hope that by starting this thread it will give us all some new ideas on where to look.
-Alex
Can anyone comment on where they're finding the most old coins regularly in "hunted out" parks? I hope that by starting this thread it will give us all some new ideas on where to look.
-Alex