Whats the deepest youve dug a coin?

Bum Luck · May 2, 2015

ARRC said:
I had a Garrett GTI 2500 with a 12.5 coil...
Its nickname was "Quarter Killer"...
Set right and in certain dirt and sand ... 15 inches.

PS> Wish I never sold it.

Got a 2500. where on earth were those deep quarters?

DeepseekerADS · May 2, 2015

In the 80's I found several sliver dimes at 10", but that was about my deepest on coins.

I did find a balled up cigarette pack elbow deep, which measured at 15".

Those were dug in Northwest Ohio. I've found nothing deeper than 6" here in Southwest Virginia = clay and rocky soil.

DigIron2 · May 3, 2015

I dug the half dime that is on my avatar at about 9' maybe 10 inches down.that was the deepest coin I ever dug.

leomessi · May 3, 2015

DigIron2 · May 3, 2015

ARRC said:
Set right ?
12.5 coil ?
Sand ?
?

I would imagine you beach hunters have to dig down quite a ways for allot of your targets?I have never hunted a beach,but i have dug modern cans and large iron a pretty good ways down in some of these sand bottom creeks around here.And It can get quite exhausting.

FreeBirdTim · May 3, 2015

Coins do not go that deep where I am, I have found colonial coppers just under the surface.

Great point. I've found three 1700's half reals and all were around 4 inches down. My two KG coppers were around 5 inches down.

On the other hand, I've found a 1960 Canadian dime 9 inches down and a 1974 nickel 8 inches down.

Bottom line, don't get hung up on depth. Most of the best finds are less than 6 inches down, so don't obsess over how deep your detector can pick up targets.

Silver Searcher · May 4, 2015

How the hell do you measure depths of coins in sand :icon_scratch:

The more you scoop out the further the coin drops ...surely. It's not like it's secure in the sand, like it is in soil.

Some very wild claims here I believe, and I bet they are all from fisherman two. :laughing7:

SS

ARC · May 4, 2015

Silver Searcher said:
How the hell do you measure depths of coins in sand The more you scoop out the further the coin drops ...surely. It's not like it's secure in the sand, like it is in soil.

Some very wild claims here I believe, and I bet they are all from fisherman two.

SS

Not true SS...
Coins don't "drop" in wet sand.
I use custom scoop...
2 scoops = 12 inches...
And every scoop thereafter is another 6 inches solid.

There is no "movement" of a coin in scoopfuls...
My "plug" is a solid canister of sand each pull 6 inches round and six -7 inches high.
When I "turn out" my plug is 60% of time a solid chunk of sand.
IF close to waters edge or in shallow water table area then "fill in" occurs...
These items are the "guessed" depths usually only.

My pulse with 7.5 inch coil will pull large (real big items) at a depth of 6 ish feet.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it

huntsman53 · May 4, 2015

While it is hard to believe and even for me as I dug it, I dug a 1953 (my' Birth year) Franklin Half Dollar close to the water on Sands Beach in Key West in the early 1980's and it was a little over 3 feet deep. Quite a few of the beachgoers that evening, came over to help keep the water from washing sand back into the hole. When I finally retrieved the coin, the hole was close to 3 feet in diameter and nearly 3 feet deep when I finally bore my' hand down further on the signal and felt it. Two guys were holding me by my' belt, so that I could dive down into the hole to get the coin. When I pulled the coin out and looked up, there must have been 25 to 30 people there including some cuties in bikinis, congratulating me and wanting to see what I found. The coin was detected by my' White's 2000-D (1st Series as there were no Series numbers on it) Metal Detector and I am still kicking myself in the butt for ever selling it when I transferred to West Virginia with my' job!

Frank

Pennypacker · May 4, 2015

huntsman53 said:
While it is hard to believe and even for me as I dug it, I dug a 1953 (my' Birth year) Franklin Half Dollar close to the water on Sands Beach in Key West in the early 1980's and it was a little over 3 feet deep. Quite a few of the beachgoers that evening, came over to help keep the water from washing sand back into the hole. When I finally retrieved the coin, the hole was close to 3 feet in diameter and nearly 3 feet deep when I finally bore my' hand down further on the signal and felt it. Two guys were holding me by my' belt, so that I could dive down into the hole to get the coin. When I pulled the coin out and looked up, there must have been 25 to 30 people there including some cuties in bikinis, congratulating me and wanting to see what I found. The coin was detected by my' White's 2000-D (1st Series as there were no Series numbers on it) Metal Detector and I am still kicking myself in the butt for ever selling it when I transferred to West Virginia with my' job!

Frank

This is very hard to believe lol.

Did you really need someone to hold you by the belt to reach into a 3' hole? lol

Now I'm not saying you didn't find a coin down there, just I don't think the Whites found a coin 3' deep.

coinman123 · May 4, 2015

FreeBirdTim said:
Most of the best finds are less than 6 inches down, so don't obsess over how deep your detector can pick up targets.

That is definitely true, 90% of the relics and coins I find are under 6"

Silver Searcher · May 4, 2015

ARRC said:
Not true SS...
Coins don't "drop" in wet sand.
I use custom scoop...
2 scoops = 12 inches...
And every scoop thereafter is another 6 inches solid.

There is no "movement" of a coin in scoopfuls...
My "plug" is a solid canister of sand each pull 6 inches round and six -7 inches high.
When I "turn out" my plug is 60% of time a solid chunk of sand.
IF close to waters edge or in shallow water table area then "fill in" occurs...
These items are the "guessed" depths usually only.

My pulse with 7.5 inch coil will pull large (real big items) at a depth of 6 ish feet.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it

ARRC... you can carry on shovelling it, but I an't smelling it. :laughing7:

.. MOOOO.

Treasure_Hunter · May 4, 2015

I have recover good targets (coins, jewelry pull tabs ect)easily at 20" using excal with 15" coil hunting in pinpoint mode (all metal). I had to take several scoops of sand out before I could see it in discrimination mode. Both of my scoop eats 6"+ with each bite.... Who knows how deep I would see large target..

I use excal with pinpoint mod, rocker switch on hand grip and hunt in all metal, basically using it as a PI, but with true discrimination. With flip of thumb switch I can check to see if target is good or bad, no tone or null in discrimination mode means target is really deep...

ARC · May 4, 2015

Silver Searcher said:
ARRC... you can carry on shovelling it, but I an't smelling it... MOOOO.

Sounds like you need a REAL detector SS :P
OR fix yours... heh
OR try the sugar sand.

Tnmountains · May 4, 2015

I have said this before. But every other year I end up digging up my gas line brass fitting out front. It is two feet deep. But that signal just sounds so good.
I wish I would remember that it was there.

Mud Hut · May 4, 2015

I hand dug a dump down close to 12 ft. There were 4 of us digging and two people on the frames pulling the dirt.

coinman123 · May 5, 2015

Tnmountains said:
I have said this before. But every other year I end up digging up my gas line brass fitting out front. It is two feet deep. But that signal just sounds so good.
I wish I would remember that it was there.

Same thing happened at a very old school I was at, I hear a nice strong coin signal, dig one foot and see what looks like part of a fence post. I put the plug back and continue, I couple weeks later I would dig it again. I think I dug it about 5 times :laughing9: