How deep do coins get?
This is a very touchy subject and I will give out information based on my experiences. Coins can get very deep at the beach due to wave action. Coins on land can also get very deep because they were covered over. I would venture to say that 95% of my coins were found in the 3″ to 5″ range. Some were found a little deeper, mostly in fields that were plowed. A good example: The year was 1984 and I was hunting an old church built in the late 1700’s. I found two large cents almost side by side that were only three inches deep. One was an 1797 and the other an 1810. Fast forward to the year 2000. I was hunting an old ball field that use to be a corn field. I received a signal that indicated a dime at 7″. Sure enough, it was an 1874 seated Liberty dime.
