I'm only a few months into detecting and it actually took me awhile learning my machine in my yard to finally find my first coin a 2009 penney . I was happy to finally find anything other than pull tabs bottle caps and just trash. My yard has a lot of slag scattered about . I ventured out to a local tot lot and found a few more pennies and a dime and then my first quarter. A person in the park with his young daughter directed me to a beach on one of the lakes here so I moved to that area and have found 4-5 dollars in clad along with my first nickel. My oldest coin to date is from that park a 1964 penney and the day before a 1965 quarter which I was sure was going to be my first silver as it rang up 99 on the ATP at 8-9 inches. It came out of the hole really clean at about 8" but turned out to be 1965.Although I'd really like to get on a CW site and relic hunt and I will get there as well as getting on some old homesites and find some old silver I'm happy when I get in a spot that produces clad. I just like finding anything lol. Pennies have lost their excitement lol I've moved on . I still dig them and have gotten it down to where I can tell most of the time before I dig thats whats in the ground a few times I'm surprised with a dime instead as the dimes run in the 81-83 range most of the time and the pennies usually anywhere from 76-81 usually 80-81 is most always a penny. Every hunt I get better at knowing what to expect. I still dig the questionable just to confirm my suspensions. I like digging clad.