In most areas, there are enough people with metal detectors around, so that the easy locations to search are pretty well in doubt. For instance, as soon as I had my better metal detector I started going to the big old city parks around and I found silver coins dating back to all the late 1890s and up. It's almost impossible today to find an old coin in most city in county parks, because there have been enough of us who've been through there time after time that we've found most of them. So if you are just getting into the hobby today, you have got to be a little bit inventive. You got to figure out where people had social activities 150-200 years ago and go to those places and hope that nobody else figured out the same thing. There are old picnic grounds, old places where church socials were held and of course just old homes that nobody's gotten around to searching the yard yet. It's getting tougher and tougher to find old coins. Modern coins you can find everywhere, because the kids are out there losing them and ladies are out there losing cheap jewelry. When I am in Florida in the winter, about every other day I go down to the gulf beaches and I find coins, kids toys and occasionally jewelry. There are thousands of people on these beaches having fun and they are losing things. Siesta Key Beach at Sarasota, Florida is rated as one of the world's top ten beaches and literally thousands of people come there and lose things.
