Metal Detecting - 2 Silvers & 19 Wheat Cents - Taking a Break!

Hello everyone,
Today was my 5th Metal Detecting Hunt at the new hot spot I discovered almost 2 weeks ago.
I did well again with 2 Silver and 19 Wheat Cents .
US Coins. I also found a 1939 Canadian Cent.



The rest -


I'm done with this spot for now. Tired..
I will try again in a few weeks

 

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Damn, you do really good! Have you ever found any gold?

 

Nice finds Paddy! I need to move back east.

 

You've done great in that area and I know you enjoy the hunt. Not only do you get the coins but you're cleaning up the park. Look at all of those non coin items you've found.

 

Nice trip to the park. All I have found recently is drained metal detector batteries. LOL

 

Nice finds.

Tell you what.

I can stop by with a cup of coffee for you while you are on break.

Just let us know where you are searching.

 

@paddyman98 Out of curiosity, do you find the depth of a coin correlates to the age of the find which would seem logical?

 

Definitely. Anything 2 to 4 inches down would be from the 1970's and recent. Further down to 12 inches is early 1900's to 1960's in the area I was concentrating on. It is a very pleasant area to detect!

 

I, and maybe others, would be interested in an overall assessment of the average depth at which your detecting turns up coins each time you "go walk-a-bout" with your detector. Nothing scientific, just your opinion while I sit at home unable to do the same.

 

The new detector I'm currently using has a metal ID and depth ID.
The numbers mean different coins. So when I see a 27 with 3 arrows pointing downward I know it is a Copper about 6 inches deep. Each arrow represents 2 inches. In all the Wheat Cent finds they were all 27 and 3 to 4 arrows down meaning 6 to 8 inches.
Silver was coming up between 30 and 33 with 4 to 5 arrows = 8 to 10 inches.

Wheat were harder to spot and dig out because they are dark in color like the soil. Silver pops out nice and bright as if they were just buried even though they have been that deep for decades.

 

Thanks. Never had a detector with all the bells and whistles, so ?

 

Here is the list for the last 19 Wheats I found in this last hunt -
1920 - 1 each
1925 - 1 each
1927 - 1 each
1932 - 1 each
1935 - 1 each
1936 - 1 each
1938 - 1 each
1939 - 1 each
1941 - 1 each
1942 - 3 each
1944 - 2 each
1945 - 1 each
1946 - 1 each
1950 - 1 each
1950 S - 1 each
1952 D - 1 each

 

Any errors?

 

Wow, you do really well @paddyman98! Here's a video of a gold find, I know it's very scarce but this video catches all the excitement!