How deep are the silver coins you find?

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washingtonian

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Over 50 years of detecting shows the average silver coin I dig is around 3.5 inches.
 

I've found silver coins on the surface ,under leaves in the woods,less than 1" in eroded areas to over 10'' .Each spot will be different .
 

I second 1”- 12”. Majority 3”-7”.

Depends on many variables

Soil Density/Compaction
Water Percolation
Vibration (ie. next to a road, under walkway etc.)

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The above image is from a post 12 years ago here on TNet

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting/26243-coin-depth-chart.html

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All over the place...usually around 4 inches...one particular field we dug 30 silvers...average was around 2-3 inches...weird. Ddf
 

Most of my silvers average 4 or 5 inches deep. Even the colonial ones. My machine will dig target very deep, but it takes awhile for items to get buried, so modern silvers generally aren't all that deep.
 

Over the past two years...no silvers deeper than 6" I believe. Most around 4".
 

I have never found silver 1840s-1964, deeper than 7" and, the vast majority like Smoke, between 4"-5" deep. :occasion14:
 

I find that in the local woods in Ohio I am digging silvers dropped in the 40's through the 50's that land on leaves are only about 2 to 3 inches deep. The leaves decay slowly and hold the coin up more so than if dropped in just grass or dirt. In NY were I dug a couple small dime sized coins from the 1830's in the woods they were around 8-9 inches deep. Most of my coins dug in yards have been between 4 to 7 inches deep. My deepest silver was a huge French 5 Francs that was 10-10.5 inches. The yards were the coins are too deep to detect are those in yards where the house was built prior to 1900 and have had the foundations reworked or even a basement dug out when they were jacked up. All the dirt was laid/spread over the yard and puts the coins down about 17 inches. I have dug clad quarters at 9 or more inches due to fill being laid in wetter marshy soils. The town I live in was marshy land when 1st settled in the early 1800's. Virgin lots in town (with no fill) most older mid 1800's coins are between 5-7 inches deep.
 

I have found them as shallow as 1", as deep as 7-8".
On average 4-6".

All sites are different.
 

An old pounded park I detect sometimes the silver is all 10"+ deep and I've found dimes at a full 12" before, the MXT with the right coil will get you as deep as any and will use all your coils you have now. I would look for a good used one then you would have a good backup/loner machine. HH
 

2 in" we just had a big rain it was a 1942 d quarter my deepest was a silver nugget about a 1FT down it weighed 2 oz.
 

1 and 2" are my shallowest. the 2"er was a qtr on my last hunt at my locally Most Pounded park. I don't know how it survived in the wild that long.

12-14" was my deepest but that was a day all the stars aligned. Rich deep loamy soil(like digging in firm snow!), great soil moisture and a barber half slightly angled. CTX was pegged for depth and I wish I had gotten an exact depth but was just too excited to think straight!

Typically around here, on undisturbed soil, we have a clay layer at about 6" and its rare to find anything below that boundary.
Also note that above numbers are for soil;; beach silver rings have been all over the place depthwise.
 

Ok this is JMO on how deep things are in the round. In the interior of BC it's basically very arid and one could scratch the ground with the boot under the big pines and dig up finds that were 100yrs plus old. This hunting spot was a Mile House Location for the gold rush. Large black powder bullets we could still hear the gunpowder in the shell when we shook them. A Seated quarter was only an inch in the soil when we dug it out.
Detecting in the parks in Vancouver and area for 9 months one time everyday, and 6 months another went out everyday.
I had dug coinage 10" down that was only 10-12 yrs old! Why? Because it's a bloody rainforest, rain, rain, rain=sink-sink-sink into the ground.
Dug a Timex-self wind wrist watch down 10"+ and gave it a good shake and it started to tick. Finding Vickie silver was a real treat and was usually scored if the soils were in a drier location.

You are in a similar climate zone so the coinage of any age will be deeper, so it's just getting the coil over them.
 

I have dug silver coins from barely covered by dirt down to about 18 inches deep. Most seem to lay around the 5 to 8 inch depths
 

6" to 8".

One of the deepest coins I have ever found was a dime at 10" . . . a 1996 Roosevelt. It was in an area that floods annually. Same park - I found an Indian Head Cent on the surface. The soil moves and coins get churned around.
 

I think my deepest coin came from around 10 inches. It was a Mercury Dime. Last year I dug a half dime from about 3 inches deep. There is no set rule of thumb to follow.
 

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