How deep you dug to find a coin?

[ozzie jack]

I dug some deep holes, but on Rockingham beach Western Australia, other side of the world to the USA last xmas i thought wow i have dug a little to far i think.
Look what was 10 inches down found by my AT Pro

 

[MNCoinhunter]

I have never dug a coin deeper than 10 inches up here ... and an occasional foreign coin that has no reason to be way up here.

 

[matthias]

Im still new at this. Now is the beginning of my third season detecting. The deepest coin I've dug was about 7" and it turned out to be clad! The few silver I have dug have all been 6" or less. HH. Matt

 

[Elton]

Your digging through to my side of the world and getting them before I do.

 

[Critterhunter]

Some machines get even deeper in the sand than they do on land, and it's hard to judge coin depth in sand as it can easily move and fall further down the hole. On land for me just this past year I dug a v nickle in one hole and an indian in another at 11". That was under ideal wet conditions which I'm sure helped. They both gave perfect and strong coin IDs so I suspect they could have been even deeper and I still would have got them. Up until my current machine all the ones I've owned in the past could only muster about 7.5 to maybe 8" max in my moderate to heavy mineralized sites, so I was very shocked to start popping silver dimes and wheats at 8 or 9" deep, let alone the 11" ones.

Alot of what you hear about depth reports on the web has to do with their mineralization. If they have real neutral good black soil then they'll get coins a good bit deeper than you on a more regular bases. The exact same machine used in another part of the country could get close to half the depth others are able to achieve with it in their soil. Even the best machines on the market in terms of being known to handle ground minerals well suffer from this problem, although not as bad as some other machines do.

 

[Rick N. MI]

I dug 2 Indian Heads 11" using with a Sovereign and 8" coil. All the years of detecting and I used the Sovereign for 5 years and only dug 2 coins that deep.

Rick N. MI

 

[Sailorman]

Deepest coin so far was in perfect soil at 11", an IH with an AT-Pro. Deepest Matchbox car was 16" on the beach with an Etrac. Been bone dry around here lately and I rarely hit anything deeper on coins then 7". Waiting for those summer rains.....

 

[bootyhoundpa]

sov gt with wot in damp sand have gotten pennies and dimes in the 14-15 inch range,pocket knife at 2 foot deep,quarters at about 12-13 inch range... inland ive chased a few large cents down to about 12-14 inch range...other coins inland i rarely find deeper than 6 inches.... if im in an area where im finding coins i will chase those faint whisper signals just to see what they are and sometimes they turn out to be very deep coins.....