Kas
Bronze Member
- Jan 3, 2007
- 1,565
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- Detector(s) used
- Mx sport
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hey gang. Hadn't planned to go where I went today, didn't even know about the site until this morning.
Making a very long story somewhat shorter, I found an empty lot to hunt. Went today and found a few coins. There was a guy there cleaning up the lot, not the owner, who said he had just boughten a property out in the country where the house burnt down. He said it burnt down about a year ago and he bought it. The poeple who owned it said that they had left 2 old gold pocket watches inside and that if he found them they'd like them back. Did I want to look for them he asked me. He also said that I could hunt the property, and that I could keep anything but jewelry and the watches.
SURE! I headed out there to look around. Nice large property. House burnt clear down to ashes, no roof, nothing but a foundation filled with ashes. I wasn't sure I wanted to trapse through all the wet ashes, but it had been like this for a year. Hardly any smell of burnt at all. I put my detector on coin only because of all the trash, and that's when all hell broke loose.
I started digging coin after coins out of the ash, and found a plastic tub full of coins. Here's a few pics so far. I'll get a total count later. There are still coins to find, but I got tired of digging, but the tones are still there. I'll estimate that I've removed around 500 hundred coins today in about two hours.
I doubt that any are old, and haven't searched them, and some are stuck together as you can see in the picture. But, it's a bunch of coins. Should I be calling this a cache. Well to me it is. I haven't even touched the yard yet. More pics later.
Ken
Making a very long story somewhat shorter, I found an empty lot to hunt. Went today and found a few coins. There was a guy there cleaning up the lot, not the owner, who said he had just boughten a property out in the country where the house burnt down. He said it burnt down about a year ago and he bought it. The poeple who owned it said that they had left 2 old gold pocket watches inside and that if he found them they'd like them back. Did I want to look for them he asked me. He also said that I could hunt the property, and that I could keep anything but jewelry and the watches.
SURE! I headed out there to look around. Nice large property. House burnt clear down to ashes, no roof, nothing but a foundation filled with ashes. I wasn't sure I wanted to trapse through all the wet ashes, but it had been like this for a year. Hardly any smell of burnt at all. I put my detector on coin only because of all the trash, and that's when all hell broke loose.
I started digging coin after coins out of the ash, and found a plastic tub full of coins. Here's a few pics so far. I'll get a total count later. There are still coins to find, but I got tired of digging, but the tones are still there. I'll estimate that I've removed around 500 hundred coins today in about two hours.
I doubt that any are old, and haven't searched them, and some are stuck together as you can see in the picture. But, it's a bunch of coins. Should I be calling this a cache. Well to me it is. I haven't even touched the yard yet. More pics later.
Ken
No key dates though. 
