150 1oz silver coins 3-4ft deep

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I have been approached to help someone. They buried 150 1oz silver coins, in a baseball card box, about 3-4ft deep in sugar sand on their property. Any chance my CTX3030 could get any blip on that at all? I have the standard and 14” coils. I am thinking even with that much concentrated silver, it may be out of reach.
 

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if they know where they buried them, start diggin'. If they only have an idea where they buried them dig one foot deep check with CTX, continue until found.

good luck and post pix when you find them.
 

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All metal / pinpoint mode.

Work it.
 

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I would rent a front end loader and start moving some dirt around I dont see your detector hitting that deep no matter how big the target
 

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I would hope the CTX3030 could hit 150 oz's of silver at 3-4 feet. Even broke up into 150 pieces I think you should get a signal. Might even be able to just probe around easily in that sugar sand and feel it.
 

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4 feet, is incredibly deep for a metal detector!!!
 

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Try probing the area first with this iron stakes. A box detector should do the job with ease, if you have access to one. I highly doubt any detector will recover a target 3+ feet, but I hope you prove me wrong.

Good Luck! :icon_thumleft:
 

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A good pulse induction with a 18" coil should be easy.
 

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A good pulse induction with a 18" coil should be easy.

Yep.

My JW 8X with even 7.5 inch should nail it no problem... and if it didn't... switch coil and nothing would escape it.
 

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I have been approached to help someone. They buried 150 1oz silver coins, in a baseball card box, about 3-4ft deep in sugar sand on their property. Any chance my CTX3030 could get any blip on that at all? I have the standard and 14” coils. I am thinking even with that much concentrated silver, it may be out of reach.

When and why did they bury it? Seems like a lot to bury as a time capsule.
 

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When and why did they bury it? Seems like a lot to bury as a time capsule.

Because ... burying something is really the instinctual safe keeping measure for those who really want to keep something safe.

"Time capsule" has nothing to do with it IMO.

As we speak... somewhere in the world ... someone is burying something somewhere.
 

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I don’t think the CTX is going to see that, the field just isn’t large enough. When you start piling a bunch of silver together the signal gets WORSE, so you wouldn’t know if you’re actually detecting a mass of silver or a sewer pipe. Now if you got 2 feet of sand out of the way and because it is sand, you might then have a chance of actually locating something, but still a tall task for something that is calibrated to coin sized items.
What is with all of the people having treasure under their houses lately??:laughing7:
 

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Because ... burying something is really the instinctual safe keeping measure for those who really want to keep something safe.

"Time capsule" has nothing to do with it IMO.

As we speak... somewhere in the world ... someone is burying something somewhere.

That may well be true, but the OP stated that, "I have been approached to help someone. They buried 150 1oz silver coins" which indicates to me that unless theses people are walking fossils and buried them as a child (which would seem unlikely to me) the burial would be of relatively recent history. I don't know about you, but I would damn sure remember where I buried that amount of anything...especially silver rounds. It's not that I am questioning the story, but would love to hear more about it.
 

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That may well be true, but the OP stated that, "I have been approached to help someone. They buried 150 1oz silver coins" which indicates to me that unless theses people are walking fossils and buried them as a child (which would seem unlikely to me) the burial would be of relatively recent history. I don't know about you, but I would damn sure remember where I buried that amount of anything...especially silver rounds. It's not that I am questioning the story, but would love to hear more about it.

Agreed.
 

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AND... I damn sure would find it. heh
 

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I would also think the 3030 would hit that easily. If not a Whites TM808 would. If you need one let me know and keep us posted, You could also buy 20 rolls of half dollars put then in a box air test them. After the air test Check them for silver and then turn back in!!!
 

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I find it interesting that the person who buried this , doesn't know right where he buried the cache - also if he buried it on his own private property , was there any good reason to go three or four feet down ? when a foot should have been sufficient .I think some kind of earthmoving machinery ( small front loader) should be brought in . I don't think hand held metal detectors are the answer - more like ground penetrating radar - the sort of devises that are on 4 wheels, rolled over the terrain - showing disrepancies in the soil density several feet down .
 

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