depth

[wipp]

New to this. Just got an ACE 250 for fathers day. I've got many hours on it. Found allot of clad, a few rings, a 1907 dime. I was wondering, do the coins and jewelry sink deeper with time? I have found 2004 quarters 4" deep. From wi. there's allot of clay and black dirt here. I have been to many old parks and beaches and I can't seem to find many old coins. Would appreciate any help.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Coins sink in some areas and not in others. Some are covered by landfill, nature's annual debris, natural disasters. It's a real crapshoot. I've found coins from the 1700's at two inches and clad at 6-8 inches in the same area. It's one of detecting's enduring mysteries.

Just because a place is old doesn't mean it has old coins. Detectors have been around since about 1932 so most places have been hit at one time or another. Plus one must remember that people didn't lose many coins in the old days as they were just to valuable. If they dropped one they hunted for it till they found it. People carried their coins in coin purses and not loose in their pockets. To give you an idea of their worth back then - when I was a kid my Ma would give me a quarter and that would pay my way into the movies and buy me a popcorn, candy bar, and a coke. Equate that to what it costs for the same today

Bill

 

[david764]

I have found that depth of a coin means nothing. I seem to find modern clad just as deep as the silver coins i have found. Depth depends on the type of soil you have were you live. I find civil war relics at 4-6 inches and i find modern clad at the same depth. I think most items dropped on the ground sink fairly fast though the top soil and tend to stop at sub soil which is about 4-6 inch range. If you want to find old coins you have to search areas that are old. Most parks are fairly new and really you are not going to find any coins that are that old.I find old coins in areas that have not been visted by man in the last 30 years or more because you can have a old coin at 6 inches deep and at ground level and up to 6 inches deep on top of that coin you have iron, foil,pull tabs, aluminum,ect your detector will not pick up that coin because the detector is going to signal off on the first metal object that the coil passes across .It does not matter if you discriminate the junk metal out it still will not pick up that coin because the detector is still reading the closest metal target. I find most of my old coins with a sniper coil hunting in all metal mode and when the detector reads junk i wait for the detector to recover and i twich the coil around the junk and just maybe i can pick up a good target that is not directly under the trash but just a little to the side of it.

David

 

[wipp]

Thanks alot for the info, I'll keep digging

 

[liltracs]

It seems to have a lot to do with hitting the right spot. Ive dug 8 silver dimes at an old putt putt course that had since been filled in with about 6 inches of rocky hard topsoil. All were 6 to 8 inches. I couldn't pick them up without running my sens. way up. All the other places Ive dug silver has been 3 to 4 inches. I run my sens, up in these areas and the good signals usually at 7 to 8 inches seems to end up trash targets.

 

[jackintexas]

I hate to say it Bill, but I remember those days too......Jack