What do you think: How deep would a 150 year old coin be?

[shanegalang]

Used to work for a soil testing company. There are so many things that could effect this. Location, type soil, ect. ect.

 

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[UnEarthed72]

My oldest find was an 1857 Flying Eagle cent...151yrs old..found in a sandy pebble filled area and it was approx. 4.5in deep.
Soil and weather play a big part i believe not to mention foot traffic

~Shawn~

 

[idigdirt]

Ant is about right on the average yearly rate of 1"16th of an inch per year. But as all metal detectorists will attest to (including me), anything goes. Personally, in soft loamy soil i"ve dug clad and memorial cents 5 to 8 inches with no hope of finding silver or wheaties. On the other side of it, hard packed soil will leave those same coins from barely under the surface to about 2 inches. Coins will also sink down to clay lines and that's about as far as they will go. Plowed field hunting will net you coins and artifacts at all sorts of depths. A very nice flying eagle cent i found at one time in a plowed field was eyeballed by me before the coil got to it! Happy hunting....

 

[Ant]

Ant is about right on the average yearly rate of 1"16th of an inch per year. But as all metal detectorists will attest to (including me), anything goes. Personally, in soft loamy soil i"ve dug clad and memorial cents 5 to 8 inches with no hope of finding silver or wheaties. On the other side of it, hard packed soil will leave those same coins from barely under the surface to about 2 inches. Coins will also sink down to clay lines and that's about as far as they will go. Plowed field hunting will net you coins and artifacts at all sorts of depths. A very nice flying eagle cent i found at one time in a plowed field was eyeballed by me before the coil got to it! Happy hunting....

I see the same way, well said.

HH

 

[I_Dig_NYC]

Oh OK now I see, your in Cali. I gues you don't have to factor in 'heaves' from freeze / thaw cycles. But don't forget earth worms and small critters digging under coins. And earthquakes too could probably make a coin drop to infinity.

 

[Ant]

Oh OK now I see, your in Cali. I gues you don't have to factor in 'heaves' from freeze / thaw cycles. But don't forget earth worms and small critters digging under coins. And earthquakes too could probably make a coin drop to infinity.

We have that and more. We’re saying that in general, if that can be said about this subject, nothing is a fact, see?

 

[Bridge End Farm]

Oh OK now I see, your in Cali. I gues you don't have to factor in 'heaves' from freeze / thaw cycles. But don't forget earth worms and small critters digging under coins. And earthquakes too could probably make a coin drop to infinity.

We have that and more. We’re saying that in general, if that can be said about this subject, nothing is a fact, see?

Yeap for sure and if it is where my beagle decides to dig, anything 2 foot down and closer immediately is on the surface