Second time out - same park and new school

[theedudenator]

I ended up with almost $4.00 in change. Nothing exciting.

Found 4 quarters in one hole, stacked.

Local school - found nothing in the bark around the playground.
Everything else in the in grass.

I am finding year 2000 coins 2-3inches down.
4-5 inches down 60-70's coins.

I am thinking the older stuff is out of reach?

[DBFISHER]

I ended up with almost $4.00 in change. Nothing exciting.

Found 4 quarters in one hole, stacked.

Local school - found nothing in the bark around the playground.
Everything else in the in grass.

I am finding year 2000 coins 2-3inches down.
4-5 inches down 60-70's coins.

I am thinking the older stuff is out of reach?

Be carefull of what your thinking, I'm hunting a house where i've found 70's pennies 6-7"inches down and wheaties 3-4"

[tmanfromtexas]

I ended up with almost $4.00 in change. Nothing exciting.

Found 4 quarters in one hole, stacked.

Local school - found nothing in the bark around the playground.
Everything else in the in grass.

I am finding year 2000 coins 2-3inches down.
4-5 inches down 60-70's coins.

I am thinking the older stuff is out of reach?

Be carefull of what your thinking, I'm hunting a house where i've found 70's pennies 6-7"inches down and wheaties 3-4"

I hate finding clad at 6 inches and wheaties and silver at 4. I dont dig "every signal" but when that mix happens it makes for a long day. LOL. TMAN...

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

The ground is a funny enviroment in itself and is hard to explain.

I have seen the modern clad from the '70-2000 at 7" and the soil was very sandy in those spots. In fact, one particular park area the we hunted was along and near the softball diamond and the pennies were in the 7-8 inch range. That ground had the moon dust that they use on the ball diamonds and I think the clad was able to sink a lot easier, being that there wasn't much resistance in the ground soil.

Schools do at times, strip the lawn and re-landscape/re-seed by adding more tp-soil, so that could be a possibility as to the depth there.

Questions on the depth of modern coinage vs. older coinage comes up rather frequently on many of the forums that I visit, with no real good explanation.

One school that my buddies and I hunted had wheats at the 5-7 inch depth, yet I found an 1877 dime within the roots of the grass.

Ground heave caused from the freezing and the thawing of the ground could be the answer. It works kind of like a farmer running his disc plow through the fields turning the soil. Mother nature has her way of turning the soil with the freeze and thaw.

You'll get the deep one's, but the shallow ones are most likely gonna' need to be removed first to unmask what's below them.

Good Luck
DJH

[wingmaster]

If there's been no disturbance to the ground then the coins usually aren't very deep. I've been hunting an old spot from the mid 1800's to very early 1900's and most coins are 4" to 6" deep. I found an 1876 seated quarter at 1" deep, but there's been no activity at this spot since then. The leaves, sticks, and grass breaks down over time building new soil on top of the old, but say a coin drops in a small depression in the ground, well more material gets washed in the low area and the coin there will be deeper than the others around that area. If a coin gets stepped on in real wet ground it will get pushed deeper but really once the coin hits the ground gravity is done with it pretty much, its pulling just as hard on the soil and rocks. I've found an 1800's and a 1902 IH right on top of the ground at this spot. The high spots have less material building up on them as it gets washed to the lower area's, remember if the spot is not in the middle of nowhere then its hard to tell what people have done to the ground over time, fill dirt brought in, landscaping, and such. HH