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28 coins in the same hole and the newest one is a 1920!!! (Read 10385 times)
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Posted May 29, 2008, 06:10:55 PM
I was hunting more of the yard that I found the indian and merc in the other day and wasnt having much luck. I figured I would give it another half an hour and then head home to wait on my 8in coil that was to be delivered by ups. As I was walking to my car, I was working the strip between the sidewalk and the road when I got a good penny/dime signal that was reading about 6in deep. I thought it would be nice to at least dig a wheatie before going home and so I cut my plug. When I pull a plug on a target deeper than 5in, the target is usually still in the hole and I have to dig more dirt out of the hole to get to it. So I dug down to about 7in and pulled the dirt out of the hole and put it on my dropcloth. As I was reaching back into the hole to retrieve the rest of the loose dirt, I noticed a penny laying in the spoil pile and then realized there was about 6 of them that I could see! All I could think is "Man these better not be memorials" and picked one of them up to see what I had going. The penny that I picked up was dirty but I could tell that it was a wheatie. I finished cleaning the rest of the dirt out of the hole and soon seen about 6 or 7 more of them in that handfull. At this point I was totally freaking out thinking that I might be digging up a roll of wheaties or something.
 I took my sunray and rechecked the bottom of the hole and I was still getting signals down at 8in. I took my digger and cut out a smaller plug at the bottom of my hole as to get the rest of the dirt broke up. As I was pulling the loose soil out of the hole I noticed a big silver laying in my hand with some more pennies. I stopped and gathered up all the coins that I had found and placed them on my clean cloth and promptly filled my hole and called it a day without even knowing the age of or total of my finds. I told myself to wait until getting home to look at what I had!
Once I got home and laid everything out, I could tell that I had a total of
25 pennies, 2 V-nickels, and a barber half. Later while cleaning the coins, I realized that there was 3 indian heads mixed up with all the wheaties and the newest coin being a 1920. Earlier while collecting all of the coins out of the hole, I noticed small pieces of iron and kept the ones I found thinking it was part of whatever held these coins over 85 years ago.
Being that these coins were protected for sometime inside whatever kind of container or pouch until it deteriorated and that they were all laying against eachother, alot of these only took minimal cleaning and most ended up looking pretty nice after some soaking and scrubbing with a plastic bristled brush along with a dremel brush and polisher. This is the biggest group of coins that I have ever found in one hole and to have a barber half in the mix along with two V-nickels made it simply awesome in my book!
The total rundown of all the coins is as follows:
1900-S Barber half
1906, and 1910 V-nickels
1896, 1901, and 1903 Indian head cents
Wheaties were: 1-1911
1-1913-D
4-1916's
1-1916-S
2-1918's
2-1919's
1-1919-S
4-1919-D's
5-1920's
1-1920-D

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Making memories one plug at a time!!
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:12:28 PM
More pics.

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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:13:55 PM
And more.

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Making memories one plug at a time!!
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:14:01 PM
Wow thats awesome congrats


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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:15:39 PM
awesome find
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:20:30 PM
Woo-Hoo!! Nice finds. Around 1920, that bunch of coins represented an hour's pay. You've got some coins with mint marks too. I know those are worth more than face value.
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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:23:14 PM
Johnny, that is quite an amazing spill of coins you have found!!  Wow!!!  I bet you're right.  There was something holding all of those coins for quite a while in the ground.

You're going to like your 8" coil too.

Major Congrats,
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:25:52 PM
 thumbsup That story will definately get the day dreams goin. Thumbs up on those finds.  icon_pirat

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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:30:37 PM
OMG Johnny, I woulda fallen head first into that hole.. THAT IS ONE EXCELLENT FIND.. Holey Moley YOU lucky dog.. thumbsup thumbsup thumbsup

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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:31:58 PM
That is a kewl pack of loot Mr. Johnny!
Great job! I'm still a looking for some halves, along with some gold coinage, along with more silver, alone ---- Smiley

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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:33:26 PM
     Spectacular!

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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:37:21 PM
Wow!!!   Shocked  Shocked  That is so awesome.  Congrats!!
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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:40:39 PM
outstanding icon_king
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Reply To This Topic #13 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:50:15 PM
I'm afraid I would have had to find a restroom if I had found a cache like that!  Very very cool! thumbsup
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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted May 29, 2008, 06:55:58 PM
Finding a bunch of old coins in one hole is a happy day for sure.They look great.
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Reply To This Topic #15 Posted May 29, 2008, 07:03:12 PM
WTG....Awsome find

-1787 Conn. Copper  M-33-1-z-19-  R-5   1787 Conn. Copper(Unattributed yet) oldest silver- 1803 1-Reale  1774 Counterfeit British Half Penny   1775 Counterfeit Irish Half Pence
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Reply To This Topic #16 Posted May 29, 2008, 07:06:56 PM
The metal parts you have look to be the remnants of the clasp to a coin purse . Some of the coins also look to have leather stuck to them . So I'd say these coins were in a leather coin purse .

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Reply To This Topic #17 Posted May 29, 2008, 07:08:17 PM
this is the reason we hunt!!!! congrats on the awesome finds!!   bigrig
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Reply To This Topic #18 Posted May 29, 2008, 07:11:24 PM
That's the find of a lifetime JRS.....congrats thumbsup
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Reply To This Topic #19 Posted May 29, 2008, 07:14:57 PM
That's everyones dream find. WTG Which 8 inch coil did you get.  I am looking at some hav'nt chosen one yet.
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Reply To This Topic #20 Posted May 29, 2008, 07:26:37 PM
How great is finding a old cache of coins,simply amazing!!!
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Reply To This Topic #21 Posted May 29, 2008, 08:00:51 PM
Ha, wow that's insane. Very sweet, congrats. You just never know huh. HH!
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Reply To This Topic #22 Posted May 29, 2008, 08:09:51 PM
That is an amazing spill. I can imagine that was quite a rush.

Congratulations on that one.

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Reply To This Topic #23 Posted May 29, 2008, 08:21:11 PM
great finds congrats icon_pirat

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Reply To This Topic #24 Posted May 29, 2008, 08:42:37 PM
       
      Hey Johnny ,  That coin find is what we all dream of finding !   How unusual that the purse full of coins

could sit where it fell nearly 90 years ago, and just keep sinking . I've had my eye on some strips of grass

in the older part town and your find encourages me to go check them out . Congrats !!!  Gregory, Santa Fe.
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Reply To This Topic #25 Posted May 29, 2008, 09:12:33 PM
man, that had to be an unbelievable feeling when you saw all of those coins in that hole. i hope that happens for me one day. congrats. keep at it.
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Reply To This Topic #26 Posted May 29, 2008, 10:45:24 PM
That is just awesome!  I would be speechless if I were you, that is just an awesome find!  A super big congrats on that cache and hope you find many more like it!

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Reply To This Topic #27 Posted May 29, 2008, 11:26:28 PM
Super!!!!!! Congrats on the old cache!!!! bet that felt good to see all those coins in the dirt!!!!!

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Reply To This Topic #28 Posted May 30, 2008, 01:18:47 AM
Now this is a cool thread, that is a nice view of all of those coins in the dirt.  How much better can it get. Good job and great hunt.  thumbsup

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Reply To This Topic #29 Posted May 30, 2008, 01:21:41 AM
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