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Depth of finds

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dlh

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Wife just asked me what my plans were today and said I wanted to go detecting. When saying that it reminded of something I was thinking of yesterday when I was out for a short while. Recently I found a newer penny at about 7" ( Lesche blade length) and Barber dime just below the surface. I know there are reasons Mother Nature can do this but was just curious at what depth you find the majority of your targets?

Thanks
Denis
 
Most of the time I don't find the new stuff at 7", but every now and then I will find a wheat penny or silver dime near the surface. I found a 1947 dime just the other day that was within 2". Can't explain all those but something has happened in that area to cause it to not be the norm.

For the most part my finds are expected like the older silver and W/pennies are between 5" to 8", the copper pennies can be anywhere for surface to 5" and the same for clad.

Ron in WV
 
I have to agree with Ron here... In my area it's about the same,but there are the occasions where I'm detecting areas that seem to remain moist throughout the year. I've found clad as deep as 10 inches recently in this particular spot. Crazy, but some say that the freeze and thaw from year to year will pull objects down and also push them back towards the surface, so maybe it's possible that a place is truly never hunted out because of this phenomenon. Who knows for sure, but it does keep it interesting. HH
 
I seen something about the density of the old coins verse the newer coins newer coins have a faster sink rate than the older silvers.
I have found a few silver coins no more than just under the grass and newer clad coins as deep as 9 ".
 
most of the times when i see that, the ground has been messed with in some manner. it is true that sink rates differ in some places. I take inventories of coin depth, dates, and soil types. Almost always when I find older coins higher in same conditions, it's because of intervention.

that makes it fun!
 
Zinc pennies to 8" - V nickels at 2" and everything else found in between. Go figure. I'm here in northern California where it is sticky goo in winter from the adobe ground to concrete in the summer. I'm sure there are others out there with similar ground. I mainly hunt parks and schools in my area so most of my stuff is from surface to about 6".
 
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