Gold Coins-Do they settle deeper than silver and copper??? What is your deepest?

[ARC]

Water...
Is the factor.
More water... More move.

Loose soil with water... more move.
Tight packed soil with or without water... less move.

This is simple physics and more importantly simple common sense... is it not ?

This "debate" reminds me of the old "is glass moving" / "liquid state or solid" etc debates that have perplexed mankind since the dawn of "debates". heh

 

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[Jason in Enid]

I thought the dawn of debates was "tastes great or less filling"

 

[Boatlode]

Jason in Enid is correct - coins do not sink in an earthen environment. They are either gradually covered over by years of soil build-up, or they are gradually exposed by erosion removing soil. It depends on the natural forces at work. As an example, you can find 100+ year old coins laying on the surface out in the desert.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

All I can tell Ya for sure is what ever forces are at play here, move all those gold rings & coins before I can dig them up! Dag nab it!
Anyone got a "reverse ray" deviceI can borrow?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Jason in Enid is correct - coins do not sink in an earthen environment. They are either gradually covered over by years of soil build-up, or they are gradually exposed by erosion removing soil. It depends on the natural forces at work. As an example, you can find 100+ year old coins laying on the surface out in the desert.

Boatlode, can you be so kind as to give me the GPS coordinates of those 100 year old coins, I would enjoy picking them up....[emoji6]

 

[ARC]

Oh... and...

Next time it is about to rain round yer parts...

Take some change of various denominations.., and place out in dirt area...

Come back later after the rain.

 

[Honest Samuel]

I would like to find a lot of gold and silver coins to find out which is buried the deepest.

 

[Boatlode]

Boatlode, can you be so kind as to give me the GPS coordinates of those 100 year old coins, I would enjoy picking them up....[emoji6]

I've never done it, but I know someone out in Arizona who has. A blackened silver dollar just sitting there under some brush.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Boatlode, can you be so kind as to give me the GPS coordinates of those 100 year old coins, I would enjoy picking them up....[emoji6]

I've never done it, but I know someone out in Arizona who has. A blackened silver dollar just sitting there under some brush.

I found Indian head cents from the 1800s just covered with dust on bare dirt under tree while searching a house. From the oxidation, they had been there a long time, but the day I was detecting they were on the surface. I did enjoy just picking them up!

 

[Limitool]

Just now jumping into this thread. The word "Sink" only means to move downward toward the gravitational pull. That's what is being discussed. Arbitrarily assigning a definition of "sink" that narrowly only includes movement with no external force, other than gravity, doesn't make sense. That is NOT what is occurring.


What causes agitation in soil? Rain. Walking (steps, or ANY type of vertical compression), rumbling of equipment over the top, even insect and earthworm movement through the soil results in minor agitation. This is one reason why parks have coins often much deeper than you'd find at an old homestead. Why? Traffic, organism movement, and watering patterns result in AGITATION.

Saturation and agitation causes movement of the coins through the soil. Regards, Skippy

Also lightening and thunder... as I said before.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Freebird has been saying that coins SINK. period. end of story. Because they SINK, heavier items sink faster.

And I thought my girlfriend was stubborn! Geez! You're reading what you want to read into my posts, just to be argumentative. I never used the word gravity. All I ever stated was that coins sink and are not just covered up with leaves and other debris. That is ALL I was discussing.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Gold coins can settle very deep, especially if they are on a ship wreck.

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