DEPTH V.S. COIN DATES...HELP

[ImustBEgood]

Hi all, asking for some help/advice here. I am seeming to find that there isnt any rhyme or reason to dates on coins and depth. On the same piece of land I will find 1980s and 90s coins the same depth (4-6") as 1960s coins and even 30s wheat pennies. Has anyone noticed why even newer coins seem to sink down so quick? If so.... how deep is the good silver stuff? SOmetimes I think maybe its 8-12" or more? If those types of coins are typically deeper than 6".... realistically, can this BOUNTY HUNTER 2 even find it? Ive been debating on the ace 250, 350 or a Whites... any help or suggestions is appreciated.

 

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[boris]

Hi all, asking for some help/advice here. I am seeming to find that there isnt any rhyme or reason to dates on coins and depth. On the same piece of land I will find 1980s and 90s coins the same depth (4-6") as 1960s coins and even 30s wheat pennies. Has anyone noticed why even newer coins seem to sink down so quick? If so.... how deep is the good silver stuff? SOmetimes I think maybe its 8-12" or more? If those types of coins are typically deeper than 6".... realistically, can this BOUNTY HUNTER 2 even find it? Ive been debating on the ace 250, 350 or a Whites... any help or suggestions is appreciated.

It depends on soil{sand} and weather{high winds and rain}, My new idea is to dig down 6" and then detect? whenever it warms up again. I have found Barber dimes on top and not even covered?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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each site and soil-type (moisture, disturbance, etc...) is different. At some sites, there's less rhyme-or-reason, yet other sites, they are very much stratified: clad till 3 or 4", wheaties and silver start at 5", teens stuff starts at 7", and so forth. At other places, I've found seateds and reales half an inch deep! (dry desert hard-pan terrain, for instance).

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Boris is right....There are so many varibles...I have found coins from the 80's 6 inches deep, than 10 feet away an Indian head at 4 inches...From what I have noticed, is that in parks and even homes, they will move some much dirt around its hard to figure out what is going on. In fact the place I hunt now I have watched them dig up a foot or so of dirt to make a ditch, then dumped the old dirt on top of the existing field that is surrounding it.

My oldest coin to date was a 1892 Quarter in great shape, which I found beside a telephone pole, and it was in the fill dirt that they used to secure the pole

 

[N.J.THer]

Also depends on if the ground was distrubed. Maybe graded for a playing field or house lot. Fill dirt can contain all sorts of thing if it was not screened. As other have said it depends on the site and soil conditions. I've been on sites where I found modern coins 4-5 inches deep and seated coins 1-2 inches deep. That is why if it is a good signal I dig it. The shallow signals are usually more modern coins but I've been surprised many times including a 1690s Spanish cob only around 2-3 inches deep. I also tend to hunt the same sites over and over so I usually will clear out the trash too..lol. I once found to silver dimes underneath a tire iron.

Good luck

NJ

 

[ctitech0019]

all these answers is about right on to me , and i have the bh-qd2 , lots of good luck, in my town there is no rhyme or reason ,so i dig it all and hope for the best ! , and H.H.

 

[ImustBEgood]

Thanks everyone. Sometimes I wonder on the accuracy of the depth on this low end machine. But hey, its fun. Part of me wants to dig every noise because we held up my GFs gold hoop earrings and it hit a low nickel tone. Weird... With me I seem to decide what type signals to dig depending on the amount of TRASH! The inner city places I love to go (where I dont live LOL) tend to have a ton of trash in certain parts of the property, so in those places I only did if my machine hits on solid high tones with no medium tone at all (dime or higher). I dont know if this is the smartest but Id be there forever otherwise...