Great grandfather's cache.

[Whitebeard]

36 years ago a friend of mine Rolland was telling about his great grandpa leaving an undiscovered cache after his death and eventhough the house had been torn down for over fifty years everybody tought that it was only a rumor, Rolland and I decided to chip in together and buy a small Garret for about 180$ and started on the treasure hunt ,well after 11 days of searching the land and unearting junk we hit the jackpot 180 feet from where the house used to be, a pickle jar with about 5" of earth over it and covered with a piece of rotten board and soil,the cover had rotted away also and the jar was just over half full with silver dollars and half dollars dating from 1911 to 1921, needless to say that the adrenaline was pumping WE HAD FOUND A TREASURE ! After counting the coins there was $153.50 in monatary value so he sold to a coin dealer with a good profit bought back my part in the detector and split the money with his sister. No deals had been done between eachother to split the find and seeing it was a heritage from his grandfolks I let him keep the cash without any argument, that was my very first treasure hunt and since then I have found coins, rings, a few broken silver and gold chains and alot of junk and have not been working very hard at it, I took early retirement from my work this year and plan on spending a lot of my time doing serious treasure hunting from now on.

[k10silv]

Pretty cool story and a neat find.

[fortunehunter]

Why spend 11 days working for nothing?

[Whitebeard]

Why spend 11 days working for nothing?

Well I can tell you it was not for nothing, the pleasure it brought me was ten times that of the treasure value not to say that it was my very first hunt and that it is still as exciting to find objects from the past no matter if it's a gold coin or a belt buckle, all objects have a story.

[Whitebeard]

Pretty cool story and a neat find.

Thanks for your comment, from a speckle trout fisherman to a bass fisherman.

[snakeyes]

Congratulations
there's a lot of things that are more important than money, enjoy your retirement
Marty

[Whitebeard]

Congratulations
there's a lot of things that are more important than money, enjoy your retirement
Marty

That's for sure, thanks Marty.

[Lanny in AB]

Great story--nicely done!

All the best,

Lanny

[10claw]

very good story whitebeard. just don't let the naysayers take your lunchmoney. that kind of stuff smells rotten. and yes, i know it's an open forum but naysaying still stinks.

[Whitebeard]

very good story whitebeard. just don't let the naysayers take your lunchmoney. that kind of stuff smells rotten. and yes, i know it's an open forum but naysaying still stinks.

Understand what you mean I did not walk out of this without a somewhat sour taste but considering it was sort of a family heritage and that I had been paid in full in emotions it was OK , another good part about this is that I was not the naysayer but rather his consenting victim...LOL.

[Tuberale]

While $153.50 was a pretty good cache for the period, there's always a chance ...

I'd take the detector back and hunt some more. About the same distance from the house if possible, possibly in the same general line-of-sight.

Or, do you think this was all there is?

Welcome to TNet, too. A great story, whether you kept anything or not. Makes you think about how you want to do the next one, doesn't Whitebeard?

[CanadianTrout]

Pretty cool story and a neat find.

Thanks for your comment, from a speckle trout fisherman to a bass fisherman.

Hey I want to get in on this party. I fish for both! What can I say, I'm not a one fish kinda guy!

Great story Whitebeard. Congrats! Garrett does it again!

[cntrydncr1]

good story!! may we all be so lucky as to find the things we are searching for!

[Whitebeard]

[quote=Tuberale ]
While $153.50 was a pretty good cache for the period, there's always a chance ...

I'd take the detector back and hunt some more. About the same distance from the house if possible, possibly in the same general line-of-sight.

Or, do you think this was all there is?

Welcome to TNet, too. A great story, whether you kept anything or not. Makes you think about how you want to do the next one, doesn't Whitebeard?
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I don't beleive there would be anything else, from what I know they where poor farmers hidding some of their money in case a an emergency and Rolland once told me that his g-grandad had worked away from his home for a while, maybe he brought home most of his savings (150$ must have been a very good sum in those days) and they would spend only for essentials, poor people in those days would make what they needed and spent only when in extreme necessity.

Maybe Rolland did some more hunting after? wouldn't know since we have lost contact with eachother for some 25 years or so.


HH Whitebeard

[diggemall]

Nice story ! And, goes to show ya - it's out there. Could've just as easily been a jar full of gold coins - ya never know until you put in the time and effort. Back in the day, so many folks were their own banks, especially if they were out in the boonies. What is a one hour ride to town by car today, would have been an all day trip by horseback - much easier to keep your own than to keep it in a bank. Plus, people didn't TRUST the banks.

Happy Hunting !

Diggem'

[Whitebeard]

Pretty cool story and a neat find.

Thanks for your comment, from a speckle trout fisherman to a bass fisherman.

Hey I want to get in on this party. I fish for both! What can I say, I'm not a one fish kinda guy!

Great story Whitebeard. Congrats! Garrett does it again!

Thanks for your comment, just love trout and bass also, now tell me isn't life a beauty at times hey!

In regards to the story I have since been convinced that there is alot more of theses cashes all over the world you just can't touch what you can't see but you can sure look for it.

Have a nice day my fisherman friend. HH Whitebeard

[Whitebeard]

good story!! may we all be so lucky as to find the things we are searching for!

Greetings to you! Thanks for your comment , something that happened to me 36 years ago and it has nourished my dreams ever since.

All the best, Whitebeard

[Scribe]

That is a great starter story for MDing! As far as anyone saying that you walked away with nothing, well 75% of the time we read the start of the cache hunt and never hear the ending because either....
...it was a snipe hunt and they walked away with nothing...
...it was a complete load of exaggerated bull and there was never nothing to begin with...
...they actually found something and are adhering to the MD'ers rule of "Keep your mouth shut!!"...

I would agree that looking at the site again would be interesting if you can do it. If you decide to go back keep us informed

Scribe

[Whitebeard]

That is a great starter story for MDing! As far as anyone saying that you walked away with nothing, well 75% of the time we read the start of the cache hunt and never hear the ending because either....
...it was a snipe hunt and they walked away with nothing...
...it was a complete load of exaggerated bull and there was never nothing to begin with...
...they actually found something and are adhering to the MD'ers rule of "Keep your mouth shut!!"...

I would agree that looking at the site again would be interesting if you can do it. If you decide to go back keep us informed

Scribe

One of society's biggest downfall is due to people that like to grab everything they want and after they get it they want more, most grabbers are suprised to to see that some people like to give and even think often enough that there must be something fishy going on and refuse to think that generosity exists.
Giving is a natural process of life, grabbing is modern society's plague, the more you grab the less you beleive in giving and......there you go following a road that leads to disaster.

There was a time where neighbors would help eachother, now a days it's full competition I have a bigger TV a bigger car and even have perfumed toilet paper that smells like roses! where will it stop!

Sorry to see that you do not agree with me Scribe, if you have read everything I wrote on the main subject I already explained that the fun I got out of this adventure was good enough for me considering that this cache was a family affair and that fair is fair mon frère.

Have a nice day Whitebeard

[CWnut]

wonderful story, thanks for sharing