Whats the deepest coin found or gold jewelery

Hi aussie,
We've both got Ace 250s with stock coils 6.5 x 9inch.

Last year on vacation and only on one particular beach,
both Eileen and myself dug up many coins at 12 - 14 inches. (honestly)
That was our deepest finds ever, nearly all signals were extremely iffy
but once we started removing 2-3 inches the signals turned good.
Now that's real huntin'.
Unfortunately we've never had a day like that since, we think the conditions
must have been perfect.
We can get 10-12 inches from time to time.
Since we use alloy scoops Eileen has a theory about the deep finds.
She thinks that when we're scooping the sand out sometimes we must be
pushing the coins deeper with the front edge of the scoops.
I don't agree with that, remember we do go for the most iffy signals.
It seems to work for us.

Hope I haven't bored ya'll with the long spiel.

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With friendly greetings, Ian and Eileen

Hallo draaiorgel.

I don't mean to be rude, but...

Well, I think Eileen is right. The ACE 250 is an excellent detector when it comes to coin hunting, even on the dry sand beach.

But is isn't capable, at least with the stock coil, to find coins that deep.

The ACE 250 with the stock coil -repeat : with the stock coil- struggles in the INGO-tests, and shouldn't be able to find a 50 eurocent deeper than 7 or 8 inches. This is very optimistic.

Not to say it's a bad detector, on the contrary, it is a good choice for dry beaches hunting, but you need larger coils to get the mentioned depths.

The ACE is one of those detectors that really performs better with a larger coil. The next Rhino model offers already a lot more possibilities than the stock one, which is not the best one garrett ever made. A SEF coil is definitely a plus, too.

That being said, and to answer the main question of the thread, I don't know, as depth is not the main thing to me. With the Minelab Quattro +1050 FBS coil, I suppose I do find coins at more than 12 inches, but to me the frequencies are more important than the depth capacities.

A coin missed at 3" by one detector and found by another, doesn't mean the second is deeper than the first, of course, but it might have another coil type and run a lower/higher frequency.

HH



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would you guys think that mineralised soil or sand present in the area might help a detection response or the opposite

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good info on the ace 250 as i wont to by one soon saving up

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My deepest coin was at 27 cm (a Roman broncde coin) found with a GMP in the woods (thus not heavily mineralized soil)

Regards,

Christian

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