Old station finds part 2 !!

before it got dark i went back to that gas station site the heavy equipment had finish grading the dirt for the day about a foot and a half down pushing it up in piles at the end of the property the foundation was still there all heavy stone to make a very long storie short because iam still in shock what i found in 7 different holes all around 7 to 8 inches deep ill try maybe tomm. to give better details 1 hole gave up 5 half's another had inches apart 3 silver dollars the rest of the coins was found all near by those finds .i can not believe what i found !!   tg that bull dozier operator did what he did or i never could of got that deep with my DFX i need to shake his hand tomm.? lol heres some pics i took, before i detected early this morning found a few good things i went to work then back to the same spot again just a 60 minutes before dark iam so tired now but iam still staring at these coins . Total finds today 14 silver 1 IH and a small gold high school 1959 pin 10k . I think just off the top of my head the 1886 O Morgan is a key date coin ? and i just love that 1893 Colombian Half , also a 1850 Seated half dime i almost missed it , it took 3 times to see it in my hand in the dirt lol . these finds all where found hear where the old pumps used to be i think it was a ESSO station before that iam not sure . STILL IN SHOCK !! HH Jim  

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Very nice.  Love the Silver!

awsom digs
jeffk

Woohoo!  Awesome banner finds!

You had a dream day! And to think, there's still more to find,,,,,

Holy Shnikes....

 

That, my friend, is what is referred to as a "honey hole"

THIS is worthy of a Borat:

Nice coins/items

sure look REALLY nice for being "dug" and all in the same spot/area?

HH

BANNER!

HH
-GC

Nice coins/items

sure look REALLY nice for being "dug" and all in the same spot/area?

HH

Hi lonewolf not all where in the same spot the halfs where all in the same hole they fell out of the side of it after i saw the edge of just one coin i used my digging tool just above the coin so i wouldnt damage it  when i did that all 5 half's feel out i still cant believe it lol the other hole the dollars where about four feet away 2 honey holes ? i think long ago before black top was used at stations around the pumps it was just dirt or gravel then years later it was covered over the dozier dug down about 18 to 20 inches removing all the cover i wish i had my camera today to show a few shots that will teach me not to leave it my bag , the dirt was really hard packed i guess years and years of cars going over it and down that far it was bone dry with all the rain we get here .
Monday iam going back with my camera . HH Jim .

You got my nomination for Banner.  That is awesome.  Those coins look so good.  I am gonna have to pay better attention to those bulldozers from now on.  Good stuff.   

Shake his hand hell you owe the operator a beer or two. What a site you have there, everything is aweson.

Very Nice ,Very Nice great finds and great day


Bubba65

Banner work indeed.

way to go on the great load of silver     MR TUFF

Nice Finds  WTG

Nicely Done ! Great Silver  Congrats on the Banner 

Thanks everyone for looking iam going to try and get back there this morning with a camera before the earth movers start pushing more dirt hopefully there's more, thankfully i have a PM hour job , i do take care when digging now i learned a few months ago i hit 2 silver with my tool it ruined the coins , and thanks for resizing my pics i have a program to do that now iam just learning how to use it , about the way i cleaned those coins ?? i hope i did it right i put each coin in warm water with a little Ivory liquid and let soak for awhile then rinsed off i didnt use any kind of brush.  HH all Jim

Fantastic coins Jim. A well deserved BANNER day indeed. 
Congrats & looking forward to hopefuly seeing more on your return.
-MM-

Fantastic find.   

Fantastic coins Jim. A well deserved BANNER day indeed. 
Congrats & looking forward to hopefuly seeing more on your return.
-MM-

Well i just drove the wife to work and OH NO ! some time during the night someone put one of those 6 foot chain link temp fences up all around the property with a SIGN !that reads no trespassing !! all along the fence    one guy was there in a truck he said because of insurance regulations they have to do that he also said today they are pulling up the 2 underground gas tanks i can understand that i had my shot and happy about it, i properly will never get a find like that again , i was ready this time DFX camera and knee pads lol hey this 60 year old knees just aint what they used to be . OMG !! i see i made a Banner ? uumm just what is the Banner Ive only been in this GREAT SITE  a few months not very knowledgeable about these things ? but thank you all !  Jim and HH

WOW 

  excellent finds

Fantastic coins Jim. A well deserved BANNER day indeed. 
Congrats & looking forward to hopefuly seeing more on your return.
-MM-

Well i just drove the wife to work and OH NO ! some time during the night someone put one of those 6 foot chain link temp fences up all around the property with a SIGN !that reads no trespassing !! all along the fence    one guy was there in a truck he said because of insurance regulations they have to do that he also said today they are pulling up the 2 underground gas tanks i can understand that i had my shot and happy about it, i properly will never get a find like that again , i was ready this time DFX camera and knee pads lol hey this 60 year old knees just aint what they used to be . OMG !! i see i made a Banner ? uumm just what is the Banner Ive only been in this GREAT SITE  a few months not very knowledgeable about these things ? but thank you all !  Jim and HH

My advice ...ask the contractor where they are hauling the topsoil. You  might be able to  get permission  to  hunt there. It's worth a try.

Nice contemporary cache!

Now that's a fun day! I don't think I have ever seen on of those half dollars  Congrats on the Banner!!!!!

Brian

  First class job of planning and recovery.  Congrats !

Those are some awesome finds and by the looks of it that spot definitely hasn't given up all its goodies yet. I got one of those Colombian Halfs a couple of weeks ago from an indiviaul and did a little internet search on it.

Here is a link to the site that gives quite a bit of info. on it http://www.coinlink.com/CoinGuide/commemoratives/1892-1893-columbian-exposition-half-dollar/

It appears that the designers Barber and Morgan were in on the design of this coin.

HH
DJH

That sure is a pretty Indian Head penny.

Great finds!!  I have run a dozer for years and have "prepared" some pretty good hunting sites for myself over the years, but have never had one near that good.  

One thing I've never heard anyone mention is the one condition under which a lot of coins were lost in the northern states.  Back before these filling stations and parking areas were paved they were only dirt or gravel sure, but think about how difficult it was to find a coin dropped in the snow.  I've dropped my key ring in deep snow before getting my car door unlocked and it's hard to find something big sometimes.  By spring that coin is down in the mud or has been shovelled over to where the snow was piled up out of the way.  

Congrats on the BANNER day... Thats what I'm talking about. Carpe Diem.....Sieze the day!!!!    Nice digs.    jgas

 What! was that building a stage stop before a gas station.  alot of silver  finds  in great  condition .  :icon_scratch:bull dozer operater  deserves lunch    . Seated half dime at an Esso station  ..very cool !!! Congrats

can u post better pics so we can see the condition an dates of all the coins??? thanks  .. btw 1886 O is a common coin...

Wow!

Talk about some exciting finds!!!

Is it possible that someone lost a coin collection?

Wow, I didn't realize you've only been detecting for five months and had already managed to find two silver dollars. That is truly remarkable!

Wow!!! Beautiful coins....well found

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Well i just drove the wife to work and OH NO ! some time during the night someone put one of those 6 foot chain link temp fences up all around the property with a SIGN !that reads no trespassing !! all along the fence

Hmm, sounds like you got in there just in time!!

Could be the coins look so nice because they were dropped fairly recently.  Could be a wife got mad at her husband and tossed his coin collection?  Although once in a while I have seen silvers that came out of the ground in really impressive shape, so you might just have had some nice ground conditions.

Nice coins, either way!

HH,
Rusted

Wow, I didn't realize you've only been detecting for five months and had already managed to find two silver dollars. That is truly remarkable!

Actually yesterdays find was my 3rd 4th and 5th Silver dollar find  a few months ago i found 2 in a very old school yard that was used in the 1920,s 1 was a 1924 Peace dollar and the other was a 1921 S Morgan just like yesterdays  Thanks for looking HH Jim

can u post better pics so we can see the condition an dates of all the coins??? thanks  .. btw 1886 O is a common coin...

Ill try to enlarge the pics for better viewing since they are digital photos .Jim

COOL HUNT 

awesome finds, and congrats, one funny thing I found a penny with a cross cut in it just like yours a few years ago while I was on vacation in Ga. thanks for sharing and hh

Is it possible that someone lost a coin collection?

That is possible sure but not recently seeing they where 7 to 8 inches deep after the plow took off a good foot or more , out here its always been a very old farm community back then people trusted coinage more then paper money a few old timers not that iam a spring chicken    still have huge dollar coin collections they have showed me  and a lot still dont trust banks its buried out in fields i bet ? A older farmer here told me a story once about how he cleared a field that wasn't used in many years his tractor plow unearthed a old 1 quart glass canning jar filled to the brim !! with silver dollars nothing before 1900 . HH Jim 

Congrats, very cool coins! 

large span on those dates and types

Weird. Those dollars came out of the ground, with the shiny sheen of an unc coin. You must have different dirt then most places. 

Great finds ! I looked up the price of gas in the 1920's, 18 cents a gallon, alot of money in those days.

Great finds!!  I have run a dozer for years and have "prepared" some pretty good hunting sites for myself over the years, but have never had one near that good.  

One thing I've never heard anyone mention is the one condition under which a lot of coins were lost in the northern states.  Back before these filling stations and parking areas were paved they were only dirt or gravel sure, but think about how difficult it was to find a coin dropped in the snow.  I've dropped my key ring in deep snow before getting my car door unlocked and it's hard to find something big sometimes.  By spring that coin is down in the mud or has been shovelled over to where the snow was piled up out of the way.  

Great observation.

Check this out.  950,000 minted.

http://www.pcgscoinguide.com/display_guidesubcat.chtml?guidecategoryid=45&end=here&category_description=Silver%20Commemoratives%20(1892-1954)&subcat_description=1892-1893%20Columbian%20Exposition%20Half%20Dollar&universeid=313&guidesubcategoryid=785

WOW! 
They sure are nice no doubt. So just soaking them in dish detergent and water lifted off all that dirt even out of the nooks and cranny's of the coins?   

You're fortunate, I've never seen a copper cent clean up like that other than with peroxide but then it turns black. If anything, I'd have to agree with assuming that they're a recent loss from someone, but then again you say they were deep.

Nice also that they're not really worn down and well used from circulation and all of them have nice full rims. Most of us are never so lucky!

Congrats!

Congrats on an absolutely great day!!! Excitement like that doesn't come every day, WTG!!!

HMMMM      

Nice coins either way

Check this out.  950,000 minted.

http://www.pcgscoinguide.com/display_guidesubcat.chtml?guidecategoryid=45&end=here&category_description=Silver%20Commemoratives%20(1892-1954)&subcat_description=1892-1893%20Columbian%20Exposition%20Half%20Dollar&universeid=313&guidesubcategoryid=785

There were only 950,000 minted for 1892 according to the link

1893 Issue: The Philadelphia Mint began production of 1893-dated Columbian Commemorative Halves on January 3 of that year. A grand total of 4,052,105 pieces were produced (including 2,105 coins for assay purposes), but sales were nowhere near the levels hoped for by government officials. The Mint destroyed all of the unsold coins. That amounted to 2,501,700 coins which were melted.

Still a neat coin

Impressive

Golden Silver

  :oWOW

WOW! 
They sure are nice no doubt. So just soaking them in dish detergent and water lifted off all that dirt even out of the nooks and cranny's of the coins?   

You're fortunate, I've never seen a copper cent clean up like that other than with peroxide but then it turns black. If anything, I'd have to agree with assuming that they're a recent loss from someone, but then again you say they were deep.

Nice also that they're not really worn down and well used from circulation and all of them have nice full rims. Most of us are never so lucky!

Congrats!
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Hi Diggin So far all the silver coins out here i found look wonderful its got to be the soil most copper is not so lucky except for 2 IH,s i found not a green mark on them even shinny but the c3rd one was very green and not able to clean it very good i guess it depends here we are surrounded by salt water its always in the air  i have a perfect example of silver in the ground a long time here i found this French coin 1760 in a just plowed field back in early June all i did was clean with water and mild soap ill attach a pic . Jim HH

Great silver haul there congrats.

Deepdiger60 . I summered in Mattituck  from 1960's thru 1970's and lived there year round in the "80's. I live in Ma. now  but come down to L.I. often . Would love to detect some of my old stomping grounds.

Deepdiger60 . I summered in Mattituck  from 1960's thru 1970's and lived there year round in the "80's. I live in Ma. now  but come down to L.I. often . Would love to detect some of my old stomping grounds.

Hi HWC did you detect back then in Mattituck ? thats the town i just found all those coins the old station between Handy Pantry and 4 Doors Down  come on down sometime you can find me at the old A&P now Waldbaums , i have a token you might get a kick out of it might of been gold plated at one time its only 2004 but i bet you remember that farm ?  i found at a old school yard not in use now in Peconic HH Jim

"ill try maybe tomm. to give better details"

Yes, it will be great to hear those better details. A group of well represented coins dating from all periods between mid-1800's up to 1944, coming out of the ground like this in five seperate holes, all dug at the same depth, and being in the vicintity of well travelled gas pumps is such an almost unheard of occurance that it deserves a whole article unto its own. In the meantime it might be very educational to learn how such coins can be so well preserved to the point of not bearing a single scratch.

Was the spot paved over? Was the ground soft and gravel-free enough so if the coins were "lost" they would not show signs of being tread upon as they sank down? Have locals been contacted to ask if the ground around the gas station was once a foot or more lower and then covered after 1944? (no, that wouldn't make sense because some of the coins would show scratches from being on the surface and walked or ridden over).  Could they have been deposted in fill dirt? (no, that wouldn't make sense because they were all at the same depth).  Could they have been intentionally buried? (I guess that wouldn't make sense unless someone were to dig five separate holes to bury them?)

Quite a mystery.  Some more details might solve it (or they might not).

A beautiful find! I used to go to Mattituck as a kid also. The Polish farm kids who threw 100# potato sacks around all day would love to into town to hassle the soft city kids like myself. Drinking age was 18 then and I got thrown out of the bar called the "Apple Tree" more than once.

The soil is very sandy on Long Island perhaps that is why they look so good.

Tom

A beautiful find! I used to go to Mattituck as a kid also. The Polish farm kids who threw 100# potato sacks around all day would love to into town to hassle the soft city kids like myself. Drinking age was 18 then and I got thrown out of the bar called the "Apple Tree" more than once.

The soil is very sandy on Long Island perhaps that is why they look so good.

Tom

the Apple Tree Lounge  yes. I'm pretty sure it's gone now. My Dad  built a summer home on Cox Neck Lane in (started in '65 and finished in'71). We used to fish off Naugles  dock or rent sciffs at Capt. Marty's.

Fantastic coins Jim. A well deserved BANNER day indeed. 
Congrats & looking forward to hopefuly seeing more on your return.
-MM-

Well i just drove the wife to work and OH NO ! some time during the night someone put one of those 6 foot chain link temp fences up all around the property with a SIGN !that reads no trespassing !! all along the fence    one guy was there in a truck he said because of insurance regulations they have to do that he also said today they are pulling up the 2 underground gas tanks i can understand that i had my shot and happy about it, i properly will never get a find like that again , i was ready this time DFX camera and knee pads lol hey this 60 year old knees just aint what they used to be . OMG !! i see i made a Banner ? uumm just what is the Banner Ive only been in this GREAT SITE  a few months not very knowledgeable about these things ? but thank you all !  Jim and HH

sometimes they will let you on after hours,  and as others said ask where the dirt is going is a great idea too
nice finds

Wow, nice coins....
You've found 5 silver dollars in 5 months? A lot luckier than me, I've been at this for years and am still waiting for BIG silver.
Congratulations on a sweet collection,
Steve

A beautiful find! I used to go to Mattituck as a kid also. The Polish farm kids who threw 100# potato sacks around all day would love to into town to hassle the soft city kids like myself. Drinking age was 18 then and I got thrown out of the bar called the "Apple Tree" more than once.

The soil is very sandy on Long Island perhaps that is why they look so good.

Tom

Hi Daydream the soil is sandy here but not everywhere a lot of areas have a layer of sea shells mostly oyster and scallop that starts down about 7 inches ive yet to find anything below that layer very salty to , this year my son who is 32 worked Johnnie S potato farm during harvest diggin those spuds !!!! his back still hurts 27 truck loads !! lol . I think the Apple Tree is gone now .
HH Jim

Nice Digs...It's hard to top a day like that. Go Back Again for more...Congrats and HH

congrates on the finds. A couple of thoughts come to mind. Could the coins have been preserved by oil /grease intentionally or petroleum residue in the soil since it was a filling station? Here in Cali all the dirt would be handled as toxic waste and hauled of to an incinerator. I worked in a gas station many years ago and the boss hated big silver cuz there wasn't a cubby hole in the cash box for them. My first impression is they were planted and possibly greased for preservation much like cosmoleane ( which, like Obama, doesn't exist according to my spell check) on a military item.

WTG Jim on an awesome find. Those coins are sweet.

congrats on all of those awesome coins
and on making the banner as well !!!

Very cool indeed I wish I could have a day like that i've been hunting a fairgrounds that started 1850s as a rodeo grounds I know there had to be some oldies around this huge area but so far I only found a few weaties and 2 silver dimes a 63 and 64 I'm sure its been detected many times before but there has to be a few good ones left.  -RonnieAZ

RonnieAZ:

  Use a large coil and dig up odd signals.  Those old coins are probably beyond
reach of a small coil.

    holy Cow   wow   and congrats....just got me thinkin about old...station nearby....Hope to hear more soon...
Dave