Metal Detecting - 2024 Mid Year Detected Silver Coins Count

Oh, sure. Though hot rocks are not so much an issue in the soils I’ve encountered here in the SE. I suspect many of my disappearing signals were the result of small iron targets that had leached into the soil and created a larger “halo” like signal profile, but then vanished when I broke up the “halo” by digging and disrupting the surrounding soil. Having one’s sensitivity set too high can also result in some falsing/disappearing signals too, as you know.

There is also a possibility I lost some tinier targets by digging and inadvertently dropping them deeper into the hole and out of detecting range. This is why a handheld pinpointer is so useful.

 

Actually, the late H. Glenn Carson, author of the classic book Coinshooting, which I mentioned earlier, was a Colorado digger. He made a number of nice finds of older coins in CO. He hunted a lot of ghost towns. But he also did plenty of urban coinshooting.

I remember seeing photos somewhere of a 2-cent piece he had found in one of those ghost towns. The coin lay buried beneath a collapsed plaster wall, and was in such a pristine state of preservation, it still had some of the original mint red remaining! That doesn’t happen often with buried copper or bronze coins in most soils. I think y’all might have some gentler soil conditions in some areas. The plaster debris might have also served to protect his 2-center for more than a century in the ground.

Down here (SE coastal GA) we occasionally have some areas of well drained sandy soil that are kinder to copper. Some of my local buddies have dug some amazingly preserved early large cents. But I’ve never seen any come up that had the original mint red remaining.

 

Cool looking site! Super sharp IHC! Great relics, too.