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<p>[QUOTE="gacoinz, post: 149059, member: 6114"]One of my best sites I've found for detecting was along a walkway leading up to an old house. I found probably 50 wheaties and a few silver pieces too but oddly not any newer coins. My theory is that possibly the people had small kids at some point who lost the change while playing while young or possibly it was change dropped back when people had to pay for milk to be delivered door to door. Yes, I'm that old to remember such..lol Anyhow, not sure they got there, but sure was fun to find them!</p><p> </p><p>Was curious if anyone else who's found silver coins in their respective area's have found it to come out of the ground with almost no soils attached and shining like silver whereas newer clad coinage comes out of the ground almost black looking? Was wondering if that's a universal occurence or just happens in our part of the countries soil types?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gacoinz, post: 149059, member: 6114"]One of my best sites I've found for detecting was along a walkway leading up to an old house. I found probably 50 wheaties and a few silver pieces too but oddly not any newer coins. My theory is that possibly the people had small kids at some point who lost the change while playing while young or possibly it was change dropped back when people had to pay for milk to be delivered door to door. Yes, I'm that old to remember such..lol Anyhow, not sure they got there, but sure was fun to find them! Was curious if anyone else who's found silver coins in their respective area's have found it to come out of the ground with almost no soils attached and shining like silver whereas newer clad coinage comes out of the ground almost black looking? Was wondering if that's a universal occurence or just happens in our part of the countries soil types?[/QUOTE]
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