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Great post Tin. I'de kinda like to add to what you have to say. For one thing, if I go out and don't find anything, well I just tell myself, "I don't have to wonder if theres any treasure there or not" and wipe that place off my want to hunt list. I have been pretty successful this year, because I've stepped out of my comfort zone, and actually asked strangers if they would allow me to hunt for old coins in their yards. Dirt yards are the best, you know where they quit watering because water is getting so expensive. I go on line, type in "historic aerials" and a web site pops up with a map of the United States, click on the area where you live, and click on the oldest date you will be able to see where all the older houses are in your area, then go there, and if you spot someone outside, stop, approach them and tell them "some of your neighbors have allowed me to detect for old coin in their yards, and I have been finding old wheat pennies, and some silver dimes". And before they anything, I tell them I don't leave any holes, I cover them back up, and if it's grass, I tell them I cut a slice in the grass, pull the sides back, and go in and extract the coin, put the dirt back and push the sides back together, and you can't even tell I was here after I'm done. You would be supprised at how many people let me do their yards. And if there kind enough to let me hunt, I tell them I will show them everything I find if they are interested. And most importantly, while hunting, keep watch out for other neighbors in their yards, and if you see any, stop digging, and hurry over to where they are and tell them their neighbor was nice enought to let me hunt in their yard, would you mind if I did yours, and when I'm done, you won't be able to tell I was even here. You can say, look at your neighbors yard, you can't tell where I've been digging. I'm up to 131 silver coins this year using that mo. Another mo for me is to go to the older neighborhoods where theres curb strips, where theres grass or dirt between the curb and sidewalk and I pick out the houses where theres mostly dirt, and hopefully not any higher than the sidewalk and start hunting there. People for years and been parking along the curbs, and when reaching for their keys, pull out change as well that falls to the grass and walla, it's mine 60 years later and it's silver
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. Parks are hit hard, but there's curb strips out there that have never been detected, and many times, targets are pretty close together.
I believe curb stirps are the most fertile square footage you will run into, period. Think about it. When they were making silver coins, kids played outside, not inside as the do today, playing electronic games. There's silver coins out there, and silver jewelry and gold too. Just last week a found a gold class ring with a 1931 date on it. The house was built in the early 50's.
Good luck
Harry