Most coins found in one hole?

I've seen cases of people finding hundreds or more coins out of one hole in metal detecting stories, but I'm also sure those are far and in between. What's the most coins you've found out of one hole? In my short two months of MD'ing, I ran across a hole with 5 clad dimes, they were all in a little bunch. That is my most coins in a hole so far. What is yours?

I've found so much clad over the years, I couldn't remember something like if you paid me.....however, I do remember once finding two Franklin Halves under a pine tree.   

The best hole with old coins that I have found is this one:

1866 IH Cent, 2 1921 Canadian Cents, 1916 Canadian Large Cent, 1914 French Silver 50 Cents, Republic of China Ten Cash Coin, extremely warn seated liberty half dime, for a total of 7 old coins

A few days ago I dug 4 indian heads in one hole and a v nickel right next to that same hole.

When I first started out I dug a hole with over $2 in clad in it.

16 clad quarters (1 Canadian) in one hole near a soccer field.  I was new and it was weird. Of course, the next time I went to detect there I got a $20 dollar parking ticket!

My best one:
1 swedish krona, form 2000 

They (almost) only loose pulltabs here in sweden!   ;)

2 barber dimes

50 wheaties in one hole. All stacked together. Obviously a lost roll of pennies. Being they were all stacked together most of em were in good shape. 30's, 40's, and 50's.
Cyas, Mike in NJ

These weren't dug from one hole. But I was detecting in a park at the base of a tree and found 30 coins (29 pennies and 1 quarter) all within a 1 foot area laying on top of the ground.

Huntin' 59er

I found a whole roll of wheats with some of the paper in the ground in front of a high school a few years ago.  Best I can figure is someone must have stepped on it while the ground was very muddy.  I can't see a roll of coins laying on the grass for long.

7 I believe. A couple of quarters and the rest were nickles all laying on edge. The other one was 10 Kennedy halves but spread in an area 6'x8'.

50 wheaties

Last summer I found 11 wheaties in one hole in a flower bed in my brothers yard in Georgia. 

I dug 2 mercs out of one hole one day last week,my most memorable thus far. With clad its tough to say,sometimes there isnt really a hole but a small area the size of a plate will yield 10-15 coins though mostly pennies...Shoot

I recovered $3.75 in quarters from Chanute Air Force Base in 1982. I was searching behind the old EM club. I don't know what remains as this was one of the bases that was closed back in the late 1980's. Sad that so many bases were closed, jobs moved, families split, got to go where the jobs go.
Stay safe and do only good!
Dave Mork
'Digger-Dave'
THing4CSA
PS: Remember; Don't leave it in the ground!

Fifty pennies, the long lost penny roll. Unfortunatly my roll was all memorials  , unlike all the rolls of wheats that have been posted.

D.

You've got me beat, the most I ever found in one hole is 4.

one time a long time ago i was searching an old graveyard area and got a decent reading that read about 2". i plugged the hole to about 3" and nothing, but i still got a reading. i figured i had found something large, probably junk. it was getting dark and this was going to be my last target for the day. I took out another big chunk of dirt expecting to see a piece of metal.

What did i see? a whole bunch of dark circles!! I figured wow a bunch of wheats.... i picked a few up and holy crap INDIANS!

what i found was an old change purse similar to the one posted on the todays finds board. It had about 10 indians and 4 or 5 V nickles, every single coin was from the 1890's.

unfortunately there were no digital cameras back in them days so all i have are memories of the find and the coins of course but theyre all mixed in with my other finds but it would have made a neat post.

DIG and you never know what you might find!

sometimes you just have to dig the iffy readings because you never know.

Well, they weren't actually in a hole, but once, years ago, while I was detecting in a small park I found a spill of over $12 at the end of a teeter-totter.  The ground was littered with quarters!  My dad was hunting with me, and I had him come look at them before I picked them up.  He couldn't believe it, either.  I figured either some kid lost his video games money the night before, or maybe it was loot from a vending machine. 

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July 27th 2005,  I received a signal for a penny at about 3" down.  It sounded a little sporadic but I dug it anyway.  After digging down about 2 1/2" I reached my hand in the hole to remove the loose dirt and much to my surprise I pulled out a fist full of coins and they just kept coming.  It appears someone had lost their purse.  The purse for the most part was rotted away and anything else that was in it was gone also but I came out with 8 quarters, 30 dimes, 30 nickels and 7 pennies.

The first day I ever went out with a metal detector (March 6, 1977), I found a small cache of 89 wheat cents and a 1941 Mercury dime.  It was buried near our garage sometime in the late 1950's.  I've been hooked ever since...

Scott

I had an experience much like PBK. I pulled up to a small but kinda' hidden park and stepped out of my truck onto the grass.  While I was setting up my detector I started getting coin signals right beside my truck.  Before I was finished I had several quarters, dimes and nickels, all clad and either right on the surface or slightly covered by grass and leaves.  Forgot how much it came to but it was several dollars. Monty

Six or seven years ago I checked a friend of mine's yard before he moved..there was an old sidewalk in the yard that came off the back patio that ended anout 12 feet into the yard.  At the end of that sidewalk were pennies..LOTS of them.  By the time I quit getting signals I had close to $5 in pennies.  I put them all in a mason jar and gave them to my friend..he said one of his daughters must have buried them when they were little, but neither one of them remembered doing it

Nat

About 5 years ago I was trying out a used Sovering and found 6 buffloes nickles in one hole. there were 5 kids standing around watching me I gave them each one and found were one had lost theres on the way home. that was a good day.

  Can't really say, but I've found several areas over the years where coins seem to have been left or spilled in one spot, usually clad stuff though. However, I was hunting a beach area two years ago with a friend and on a small grassy knoll above the sand I found seven rings in one hole. I figure they must have removed them before swimming and somehow forgot about them when they left. 2 mens, 5 ladies, but nothing to brag about as none of them were gold. 

273 wheats in a bag. Found in a plowed field. There was an auction in that location a year before, so it may have been lost at that time.

24 quarters at a camp ground. Possible casino winnings lost in a drunken stupor.

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, back when I was a kid they did a "town picnic". Every year they would take a big pile of sawdust and mix a bunch of coins into it. Well, this fall, I was worried about getting skunked(nothing for nearly 4 hours) so I stopped by the park they do the picnic at. I got about $8 in clad. On one flip of the sawdust I got 3 dimes, 4 pennies, 1 nickel. So far the coolest multiple hole was Jan 1st this year, an 1868 and an 1893 IH penny, same hole.

It seems like most of the time I go out if I hunt for a few hours i always run across at least one coin spill with my DFX.  They usually run from 4 to just recently 16 in one hole.  The value of the 16 coins was around $1.47.  DFX-Gregg

A canvas bag containing 45 Mexican pesos inside the wall of an old shack.

Had witnesses both times, 54 coins is mt high(46 wheats, 1 Buffalo Nickel, 1 clad Jefferson, 2 War Nickels, 3 Mercs, and 1 Silver Roosie).  Maybe a month later found a roll of wheats/Indians(37 wheats all 1919, 1920 and 13 Indians all 1907).

I found 3 dimes in one hole and 10 pennies in a 1-foot radius yesterday. Can you tell I haven't been MDing long?

[Goldfinger]

10 clad quarters in a neat stack just below the surface at a park.  No sign of a paper roll, but just as nice as if someone placed them there on purpose.

Well my best find was 2.48, i think, with 1 and a half toy cars in the same hole. It was amazing, they were all a different depths and i would cut a slice of earth and it was full of coins....was sooooo happy

Also, i found 150+ bullet cases in the same hole....and i still didn't get em all

HH
-GC

A few years ago I got a huge signal in a 4' radius. This is a heavly hunted park. I passed up this singnal a few times myself. I dug up the outer edge and found a silver quater. I figure 2 guys had to have been in a fight. Every one was   silver. I got $6.75 in face silver. Nothing of great value but some halfs  and quaters and dimes. Love this hobby.

140 mercs in a pint mason jar next to a wooden clothsline post.

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HH Ken

I found about 75 or 80 coins in one hole it was at the end of a storm drain they were all in the dirt at the end from 1 inch to 8 inches in the dirt, sand , mud all together, lot of mercury dimes and old quarters, some buffalo nickel too.

Found a whole roll of pennies, mostly copper, the paper was rotted away.

Last year I found over 800 clad coins in one hole.  The coins were in wrapped up in what was left of paper coin rolls.  This is by far the greatest number of coins I have found in a single hole.  I have included a link to the original post.  Check it out!

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Peace,
Chuck

In the early 80's, we took a trip to the west coast, and stopped at the Grand Canyon on the way. We were taking a little break at one of those stops that has the binocular stands to look into the canyon. At that time it was 10 cents for the use of the binocular. I noticed that the ground below the binoculars was dirt, and not concrete. Grabbed the detector, and after clearing out a thick layer of pull tabs, I found 41 merc's and 50 silver rosies within about a 4' X 4' square. My knees hurt after that one! It was actually kind of strange... 1 clad dime and the rest was silver.
                                                    HH    Slabman

 Found 9 clad dimes once

          13 coins, all new, pocket drop at beach

           5 new Ireland coins, drop at same beach

           1 Barber half, 1 Mercury dime, & 1 IH in same hole in a park

           1 WL Half, 1 silver Wash. 25 cent, & 1 mercury dime in same hole at swimming hole.

           114 memorial cents in 3 ft. circle on top of ground at school playground( didn't see them,                 
                 headphones went off like a rocket)

  Many more, can't recall..............HH
 

           

Here's the better question....

How many coins LEFT in one hole?

Has your buddy ever MD'ed behind you and redug your hole and pull out more coins?

(Happened to me last weekend, he pulled 3 wheaties)  Bad thing is I double checked the hole before and after I put the plug back in.... no reading on my machine.

17 coins,1 nickel,3 dimes,and 13 pennies alongwith a swizzle stick,plastic toothpic,3 leggo pieces,and 5 blue crayons.

The coins were all LDJs(latter days junk).

hasbeen

27 Chuck E. Cheese tokens in one hole. Had to have been buried by some kid. Actual coinage, 8 quarters in one hole.

our's was 47 dimes in one hole

I was just over at a buddies house showing him how to detect & I hit 24 clad nickels in one hole. His 5 year old son took em all to the sidewalk to count em & we were all amazed........they kept coming out! Kid made about 5 trips, he is saving money fer an Xbox so I gave em all to him & made his day! 

Found a pocket spill of 8 memorials once, nothing exciting, fun to find.

A half role of Mercury dimes at an old boy scout camp.  Someone must have buried them awhile back.
Around 14-18 lincoln memmorial pennies at the beach.  I got sick of finding them all, I quit looking after finding the 15-18.  I went nuts over the dimes, but didn't really care about all the pennies. If they were wheats or IH, then yea, I'd stay forever picking them all out.

I remember in one of the first years that I started hunting, climbing into a small area of woodchips and bushes at the local park, just to check there for kicks and giggles. In the same hole, at the base of a bush, I found a few quarters and other coins, including 3 Sacagawea dollars. It was at the base of a bush; I wouldn't be surprised if a kid buried them there. Other than that, about 10 zincs in the same hole. 

Near me there is a sandy area we call the Dunes at the south end of Moses Lake. ATV and 4 wheeling area. I was searching around a camp fire ring and got a quarter signal. Pulled up $2.27 cents in one scoop. Found 3 quarters with the second scoop. Most I have ever found at one time in one place.

I found 42 clad dimes in a sand box at a local tot lot earlier this summer.  Other than that, 5 clad quarters was my best but they were on the surface under some grass.

9 memorials next to a clothes line. Dang thing wouldn't stop dinging!

Not the most but the best. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index....c,247346.msg1771617.html#msg1771617  I also found a 1938 walker and a 1940-s dime the other day in a hole that someone else had allready dug. 

once when detecting at the beach I found 2 complete rolls of dimes still in the paper wrappers in one swipe of my sand scoop, so 100 dimes..

Well, as far as older coins go, I found 26 wheats and one 50's Jeff nickel in one hole in the back yard of a house I've been searching this year.  Overall, this house has produced 28 silver and around 175 wheats (also, 4 indians, 4 buffalos, one V, and various early 1900's foreign coins).  It was/is a very nice house.  I believe it started as a farm house in about 1880 (this accounts for the indians, v, barber dime as well as many flat buttons, suspender clips and crotal bells... these were all at about 6-8").  It then seems that some time in the late 30's/early 40's, the farm land was sold, and addition was added and a fairly affluent family moved in.  There are 30's-late 50's coins EVERYWHERE.  The best part is that they're all only 1-3" deep!  Even better is that from the 60's on, the inhabitants must have been neat freaks, as there almost NO modern trash or coins.  With about 225-250 old coins found, I've only found about 40 clad era coins and maybe 10 pulltabs.  Its great.  Now, my buddy Bernie owns the house and has given me free reign to hunt.  I've put in at least 30 hours, and I'm still not done.  Best... site... ever. 

15 assorted clads...probably lost or hidden by a kid.

Well for one hle in the ground I found 6 4 pennies, 1 nickel and a dime. But my best find of coins was when I bought my 2 home a old farm house. We had to goin and clean it out. Down in the basement I found a old metal bandade can and it was full of pennies there was some IH's and the rest was wheat cents. There was over 100 pennies in the whole thing. That was the best find for me....Matt

 

12 Lincoln cents.