for you safari owners

[farmer85j]

A question, what is and how deep have you found a coin? Thank you

 

[Prep1957]

My deepest in Illinois would be large cent at 11 inches in undisturbed soil.I find a lot of deep coins in 9 inch range.Horse shoe to 15 inches.Fruit jar lids to 15 inches easy.

 

[farmer85j]

Thank you prep for the info, i think i spend too much time thinking what if instead of usind the detectors i have. I want a very deep coin hunter but i want it on a budget! Dont think things work that way though.

 

[Elton]

When I used the safari I hit a few 8" coins. I also hit a lot of Iron in my area that rang up 36 and 38 targets.. I could not seem to get rid of the nasty little pieces of metal no matter the settings.
The display reminded me of the first XS model.............The Average coins, Pennies,& dimes were around 7" .Again in my soil..
It ran very smooth in almost all locations. I would have another one if the price was right...

 

[RLOH]

9 to 10 inches. Almost all of the silver and wheat pennies I find are in the 7 to 8 inch range and the Safari finds coins that deep every time out. A great detector for the money!

 

[KinTN]

Over 12" in wet/damp sand; under 10" in moist loamy sol. Sorry I cant be more exact- I rarely measure.

 

[Cos]

Depends on the coil you are using. I have two Safari's one mounted with a SEF 8 x 6 inch coil and the other with the Detech 13 inch Ultimate Coil. When it comes to how deep, I can detect a coin with the SEF coil in the 7-9 inch range; with the Detech coil, I have detected silver dimes in the 10-12 inch range. Both my Safari's are cross-saved from the coin to the relic mode so I get my readings in the conductivity mode that also eliminates those useless icons. And yes, I do get good sounding signals and coin ID's on deeply buried rusty nails from time-to-time. I do find it interesting that after carefully pinpointing and digging, if the object is dead center in the hole it usually is a coin; if it is off to the side or into the side of the hole, 9 times out of 10 it is a rusty nail. That's not much help, only interesting, because you have to initially dig the hole.

 

[The Fog]

The oldest coin I've ever found with the safari was 1652, and it was half an inch deep! But to answer your original question probably 12 inches for a connecticut copper.