I was able to get out late Sunday afternoon on a clad hunt, with hopes for some silver, at a 1940's school building site. The area that I focused on in front by the entrances was very sparse and I spent most of an hour with very few coins. The finds did not improve much until on the back side near an staff entrance I ran into an area about 15 feet by five feet wide between a sidewalk and the building wall that was full of targets. I had a five inch coil on the F75, and had difficulty pinpointing anything because of the number of signals being generated. As I began isolating them and doing recovery with my screwdriver, (in some very nice topsoil and lawn), coin after coin came out, along with some bottle caps, pull tabs and other junk, but mostly coins. Depth varied from just under the surface to about 4 inches down. No exciting discoveries were made except for the quantity of coins. I have no idea why so many coins would have been lost or left in an area this size. They do not appear to have been scattered at the same time as there were coins at different depths and with various states of corrosion. I did not get an accurate count of the number of coins in this small area, but the three hour hunt produced 71 coins and almost all came from this small patch.
Looking over all the grassy area at this site, the best hunting area was in the last place I would have thought I would find anything at all.
Looking over all the grassy area at this site, the best hunting area was in the last place I would have thought I would find anything at all.