Yesterdays finds

[fwcrawford]

My buddy and I went back to the old park and hunted for about 4 hours yesterday.
We have been trying this area on and off since early summer and have been finding wheat pennies every time,
but have yet to hit any silver.
I found the coins pictured and have not given up yet.. As long as I am finding wheaties, I figure that there must be a silver coin in there somewhere.
Dates are:1916,1918,1919,1924,1926,1944,and 1949
Surprisingly, the 1916 was in the best condition.... I believe this was the deepest find too.
Someone said that the park may have been "cherrypicked" for the silver coins and the wheat pennies were left behind.
Is this possible?
Any tips on finding silver would be much appreciated.
Thanks for looking,
Felix

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

While you could cherry pick silver coins out of that park. I think copper pennies would still show at those settings. However with a meter one could chose not to dig pennies and still dig silver. What I have found where I suspect this has occurred, just go slower and the rewards will come. Ok you may not dig a silver quarter, but you may dig a gold ring and.... which is better, the silver dime worth $1.38 scrap or the gold ring worth 60 bucks scrap. Which one would you rather show your friends. Nothing is ever hunted out.EVER!

 

[Critterhunter]

Cherry picking silver is very common as most machines (including the Sovereign) are capable of it. Problem is that many silvers can and will read like a wheat penny due to minerals, ground content (tiny bits of trash or iron), moisture conditions, orientation in the ground, and so on...On ANY machine. So don't assume it's a wheat or some clad, if it's past X amount of depth for that sight and you know where silver starts then dig any coin signal regardless of what the machine tells you. I've also dug silver dimes that read in the penny range due to them being slightly worn around the edges on many machines over the years. Nobody gets it all, and if somebody was lazy enough not to dig the wheats then I gurantee you there is a lot of silver laying around waiting for you. Heck, even a silver laying in the same hole with a wheat penny or two might average down to the penny range and be passed over by most people. I've seen even a wheat and a buffalo average a silver half down to clad, as well as a penny or two mixed in with a silver quarter.

 

[fwcrawford]

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