Just curious

[garbage digger]

Today I dug a quarter at about 10 inches with my Cibola and I'm pretty sure that has been my deepest coin discovery. This got me wondering what has been you're deepest coin discovery (or small relic) and what machine were you using?

 

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[gold fish]

10" ?? That's pretty stout, I think the deepest coin I've gotten was 6-7. I use a cortez. Does the cibola have manual ground balance?? I usually go in disc mode, and I have been wondering how much(if any) depth this is costing me.

 

[Mona Lisa]

Two indianhead pennies at 9.5 inches. The soil was really black and fertile...not the normal conditions I dig in.

 

[gold fish]

It's always the monkeys braggin about the whites machines - sheesh !!!

 

[Montana Jim]

Silver .50 cent = 8 inches
Silver .10 cent = 6-7 inches (many times)
Brass bits the size of pencil erasers = 6+ inches


Soil conditions varied...

Bounty Hunters...

 

[MEinWV]

At an ocean beach ; Quarters at 12"+ in the wet sand with my 1280X with the 10 1/2" coil.

Inland ; A 1750 Brittania at about 8" with a Whites 5000D with standard coil.

 

[eagle77]

So far, coins up to 6"-8" T2
3"-4" Discovery 3300

Mason jar lids - 16+" (register as zinc pennies with the T2)

 

[W6PEA]

Two indianhead pennies at 9.5 inches. The soil was really black and fertile...not the normal conditions I dig in.

Mona

What a beautiful portrait , and such pretty eyes you have.......

 

[garbage digger]

10" ?? That's pretty stout, I think the deepest coin I've gotten was 6-7. I use a cortez. Does the cibola have manual ground balance?? I usually go in disc mode, and I have been wondering how much(if any) depth this is costing me.

10in. is a guesstimate and I've been known to be off , but I know it was close. It was just about two trowel blade lengths deep which measures at 5in. The Cibola does not have a manual GB., but the area I hunt alloys me to run wide open super tuned with out much of any chatter.

 

[WV Hillbilly]

I dug a dang nail today that must of been about that deep . Good beep both ways . Wasn't that big of a nail either . I had iron , foil , pulltabs & screw caps discriminated out too . I must admit I was running the sensitivity pretty high . I use a Time Ranger .

 

[W6PEA]

Yesterday we went to the beach here, and we made a couple of passes, didn't find anything then as I go closer to the water line the detector went crazy. Found a couple of pieces of junk and I mean JUNK. Then we found what appeared to be junk from what the meter read out, So we started to dig. Seemed like it was maybe 6 or 7 inches. But probably more like 4 or 5, anyway we found a Ford Automobile key, it looked like the key to my first car a 1959 ford.

The Ford Motor Company quit making single sided keys for their vehicles in 1962 or 1963 if I'm not mistaken.

 

[garbage digger]

Yesterday we went to the beach here, and we made a couple of passes, didn't find anything then as I go closer to the water line the detector went crazy. Found a couple of pieces of junk and I mean JUNK. Then we found what appeared to be junk from what the meter read out, So we started to dig. Seemed like it was maybe 6 or 7 inches. But probably more like 4 or 5, anyway we found a Ford Automobile key, it looked like the key to my first car a 1959 ford.

The Ford Motor Company quit making single sided keys for their vehicles in 1962 or 1963 if I'm not mistaken.

I'm a Chevy guy myself, so I'm not sure when Ford switched over. I know GM had single sided keys long after 62' However I am pretty sure that ford was the first to go to a double sided key so you may be right.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

My deepest find was about 18" with the Musky. Turned out to be a friggen windshield whiper motor! It must have been part of fill dirt that was used to level that section of the park I was detecting. That copper coil inside just made the sweetest "coos" in my ears, saying "dig deeper, deeper". Gremmer frankel frabben trafgrak.

I found a silver Roosevelt dime at an honest 9" with the same detector.

 

[whiskers]

I dug up a monkey wrench at 1 1/2 or 2 feet with my Compass about 30 years ago. There was supposed to be a treasure (forgive lack of more specifics but I know the gang I'm talking to ) there, so you can bet my heart was racing.

Which brings up another question: how deep am I willing to go to dig up a quarter? In my case, not very.

 

[W6PEA]

I dug up a monkey wrench at 1 1/2 or 2 feet with my Compass about 30 years ago. There was supposed to be a treasure (forgive lack of more specifics but I know the gang I'm talking to ) there, so you can bet my heart was racing.

Which brings up another question: how deep am I willing to go to dig up a quarter? In my case, not very.

It just depends on how deep I can get my bender digger to dig!!!

 

[whiskers]

"It just depends on how deep I can get my bender digger to dig!!!"

Am I the only one in this vast reading audience who doesn't know what a "bender digger" is?

Or how to put a box around a quote?

Or doesn't know why I should push the "Ignore User" button?

Or why we are in Iraq?

 

[W6PEA]

"It just depends on how deep I can get my bender digger to dig!!!"

Am I the only one in this vast reading audience who doesn't know what a "bender digger" is?

Or how to put a box around a quote?

Or doesn't know why I should push the "Ignore User" button?

Or why we are in Iraq?

That was meant to be funny, I have a partner that goes with me.....and being as i have a severe back injury....."She Who Must be Obeyed" is my bender digger. Sorry you didn't understand.

 

[EDDE]

a solid 8 or 9 with my troy x5 on a 1867 indian last inch was clay
top layers was standard lawn and black loomy earth
and a 12 x4 inch long peice of iron in a farm feild at a few inchs under 2 feet