Got a mystery question for you guys.

[16penny]

Ok before you answer the question below read my story carefully so you know the situation!

I was detecting today with my AT Pro and got a very deep signal. I'm at a baseball field in Iowa. I am on regular mowed type turf. I thought great it might be some silver. I dig and dig till I find it it down at 10 inches. It had the usual black looking look to it like most of the clad I find here. I rub the dirt off of it and to my surprise it is a 2010 dime. Since the coin is a year old I know no dirt work or any dirt has been hauled into this spot within the last few years. I have a therory of my own how this could of happened but I was wonder what other ideas you might have. Remember it is normal type soil with normal type sod grass.



Question: How can a 2010 dime get to 10 inches deep in regular dirt with grass on it so quick?

 

[Rebel1]

Somebody else buried it for you.

 

[TerraDigger]

I agree with Rebel1. Because I do that in a tough park I detect. I know where its at......so I leave it there.....whenever I want to field test settings....don't have a yard for doing a test garden.
Keep digging those deepies. When I lived in Des Moines, I pulled a 1903 Barber dime in AU condition out of a park. It was 9" deep.

 

[Elton]

Exceptional heat......... ground cracked...dime dropped and fell into crevice ..rained, ground closed back up and waaaala you found it..

Or it was near top, and as you dug hole it fell down to the bottom. We have all had that happen..

 

[jmaryt]

yup! it was "salted!"

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[5900_XL-1]

My yard in Texas gets heat cracks 10" deep and more, wide ones too. I go with that answer...it dropped in one of those cracks. martin

 

[16penny]

Thanks for the replies. My thought is it was a crack from the dry weather like Elton and 5900_XL-1 thought. It has been dry here. It is in a low spot and what little rain we did get must of been enough to fill the cracks back in. Other places on the area still have cracks in the ground. So far I have found $42.75 clad and one Mercury Dime by this small ball field. I live in a small town with about 3500 people and I'm the only one detecting the area right now. I don't think anyone buried it on purpose. But who really knows. I just thought it would be fun to see what others thought.

 

[Steve O]

n/t

 

[Cliff KS]

I didn't take time to read the other responses, but maybe this place was planted with rolls of sod that were layed down and one of the workers lost the coin from his pocket before rolling the sod over it. That's my guess.

 

[jackintexas]

I go with Elton.....Jack