How Deep Have You Dug A Coin?

[Critterhunter]

Though this would be an interesting topic. I'd like to hear how deep you guys have dug a coin, in what kind of soil, dry or wet, and what coil you were using.

For me the two deepest coins I've ever dug on any machine were an indian and a v-nickle in two seperate holes at the same site using the stock 10" Tornado. This is good rich soil and it was very wet at the time. Both coins were very deep, like somewhere close to 11" but since I ddn't measure it I'll say they were at least 9" deep. All I know is I never dug coins that deep before and almost gave up on them because they sounded so loud even with my volume control all the way down. Both ID'd perfectly too. They were so loud that I thought I must be hearing a large piece of deep junk when they didn't pop up having already dug 8" or so.

The 12x10 is deeper in my tests and I am digging wheats 8 or 9" deep on a regular bases with it but nothing as yet as deep as the two coins above. I'd like to hear your deep coin stories on the Sovereign and remember to list the coil and type of soil. I believe I've heard 12" on a silver quarter using the 8" coin search coil from somebody on here before.

Sand depths are usually deeper so I'm more interested in hearing your land depth stories.

 

[Florida Keys Pirate]

I've dug coins of all sorts out of wet sand , at what had to be around a foot and a half deep. crazy !

 

[Rick(ND)]

My deepest is with the S-12 of SunRay and in a old park around the merry go round I got a barber quarter with a V Nickle at 13-14 inches deep, but i had to go real slow and it was just a small tone change to let me know something was there, not your normal signal, but one I knew the tones were trying to climb. On another old park going very very slow and listeniing real close to any kind of signal using a XS2 with the 8 inch coinsearch coil picked up many older wheats pennies at 12 inches deep including my one and only 1931S, but too was just slight signals that the tones were trying to climb and the meter never got over 160. I also had to run the sensitivity almost max to get any kind of signal at all,

 

[Bling]

iv dug many coins 15" on my salt beach .with my Sovereign and S12 coil..about 12" with my Exacl 10 stock coil.

 

[GunnarMN]

glacial sand , 8" and 9" deep

 

[BeachBat]

Many times over 1ft (Tornado & SEF) - always sand, non tidal sand after a period of rain always gets really good depth as long as the coin has been down there for a while.

Wet tidal sand I find a bit hard to judge because of the sand movement whilst digging/scooping.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

the occasional dime ,penny damp sea sand --approx--17inches...with wot coil on gt...... in land moderate soil the occassional large cent slightly over 1 ft deep.... pocket knives and toy cars 2 ft deep in sand....

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Here is a deep one.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CQvrrN_P0c[/video]

 

[Marc(NB)]

1819 shilling at 18" deep,wet sand,sov in auto,threshold barely humming,using the S 12.It gave a solid repeatable tone, but not that silver high pitch tone.Good thing i had my shovel.

 

[wpruden]

My deepest coin was 1934 wheaty at 11" down. I had the 7.25 tornado coil on at the time. With the sovereign wiggle I was able to hit 550 on my meter. The tone was faint moving the coil very slow.
Great detector! sovereign xs

 

[dbsmokey]

Here is a deep one.

Absolutely outstanding! I am envious! GREAT find!

 

[Critterhunter]

11" with the "8" inch (7 & 14") Minelab coil is pretty good. I have a sneaky feeling that those 8" coils might get deeper than the 10" coil in some mineralized soils. I remember Crazyman I think saying that he got better depth with his 8" coil than the 10". I know I've found that to be true on my Whites in certain grounds...that the Bullseye coil got better depth/ID than the 9.5" coil in really bad ground. That's one reason why I think the 15x12 didn't go deeper than stock in my high mineral soils. The detection width of the 12x10 seems tighter than the stock 10" coil (which is a good thing) and that's one of the reasons why I think it appears to get better depth than the stock 10" Tornado- It's riding on less ground matrix at least in the left/right width perspective.

 

[king george 111]

xs 2a pro 14 inches PACKED dirt 1837 large cent

 

[Gary Drayton]

This 1 ounce silver piece of eight was one of the deepest coins I ever found using my Sovereign GT with the 14 inch Wot coil. It was easy to measure as the large silver treasure coin was still embedded in the black sand in the bottom of the hole. I found the other smaller silver reales and the musket ball in the same morning.

 

[RLOH]

Tom, I bought an Explorer shortly after the came out and I was hunting a school playground that was a couple of hundred yards from several 160 year old houses. The school was built in 1952 and the oldest coins I had been finding were from the 40's an50's. One day I got a faint signal that I could not get out of the hole. My digger was 13 inches long and it was below the surface when I finally loosened the target. I would dig alittle and use my hand to scoop the loose dirt-gravel. I originally estimated 14 inches, but it could have been 12 to 13 inches. It turned out to be a really nice large cent. I can't remember the exact date as I did not keep accurate records back then. 1830's or 1840's. Recently I found a 1842 Bank Of Montreal Canadian Half Penny nearly that deep with my Explorer 11. Nothing comes close to Minelabs for depth in my neck of the woods. R.L.