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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3107288, member: 19463"]Many years ago, I was told that there has been more damage to coins in the last hundred years than in the 2000 before it. The reason is the increasing use of chemical fertilizers. I suspect that this is consistent with the theory that forest leaves would cause more damage but we have to remember that what is a forest today may have been an open field a century/millennium ago. In the US, we sometimes visit Civil War battlefields that are heavily treed. The trees are less than 100 years old and the battle was earlier. My neighborhood was clear cut in the 1920's but today has 75-100 foot trees the largest of which were then twigs and regrowth from stumps. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have to wonder what is the greatest depth from which an ancient coin has been found. Today we hear of terrible mudslides burying neighborhoods several feet deep. I suspect there have been similar actions for the entire time coins were in use.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3107288, member: 19463"]Many years ago, I was told that there has been more damage to coins in the last hundred years than in the 2000 before it. The reason is the increasing use of chemical fertilizers. I suspect that this is consistent with the theory that forest leaves would cause more damage but we have to remember that what is a forest today may have been an open field a century/millennium ago. In the US, we sometimes visit Civil War battlefields that are heavily treed. The trees are less than 100 years old and the battle was earlier. My neighborhood was clear cut in the 1920's but today has 75-100 foot trees the largest of which were then twigs and regrowth from stumps. I have to wonder what is the greatest depth from which an ancient coin has been found. Today we hear of terrible mudslides burying neighborhoods several feet deep. I suspect there have been similar actions for the entire time coins were in use.[/QUOTE]
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