Found my first cache: 256 coins

[TrpnBils]

I was hiking last thursday and looking for some snakes. A good way to find them is by flipping logs/rocks and stuff like that. So I was out in the middle of nowhere and I flipped a log, only to find a whole lot of coins...256 to be exact.

Well, they were all modern Lincolns (except 1 modern dime and 1 wheat), so it's nothing to brag about, but that's got to count for something, right?

[Nana40]

Wow! Bet that was a shock!

And you want snakes ?

We got lots of snakes here this year!

Congrats!

[GaBnn3]

I always enjoy the excitement of believing that whatever you find was once of importance to the former owner, even if its something as simple as a toy. Someone went to the trouble of carrying it out there only to leave it. Food for the imagination.

[Vrent]

cool find and we want snakes because

[JerV3]

Cool, Snake hunting is fun. Last week just before it got dark out I pulled into the driveway. I went to close the side gate and saw something squiggly lieing down in the yard. I went down and saw it was a black rat snake. I caught him. He is 56 inches long. It's the third one in the last 2 summers I have caught in my yard. The other was 54 inches and the third one was a juvenile he was about 15 inches. I keep them in a tank in the basement. They are nice snakes. They eat whole robbins mice anything I can just about get my hands on they eat. They must like the hidding places in my yard. I have a pile of logs on the side of the house. All covered with poison ivy. I think thats were they come from. I caught the baby over there. Mostly you only see garter snakes common brown snakes around here. The only venomous snakes are copper heads and water moccasins. But you rarely see those two.

Keep up the search you never know what you might find next.

[snake35]

I am a th'er who also catches snakes. Be carefull and have fun.

[JakePhelps]

Glad you found something What where the coins in?

[TrpnBils]

What where the coins in?

Drumroll please........


A big pile


seriously that's about it, they were just all buried under a log and a little moss. Not really sure what to make of it, as this wasn't on any marked path and it's kinda out in the middle of nowhere

[diggummup]

What where the coins in?

Drumroll please........


A big pile?


seriously that's about it, they were just all buried under a log and a little moss. Not really sure what to make of it, as this wasn't on any marked path and it's kinda out in the middle of nowhere

So tell me,did your curiousity get the best of you? Or in other words,did you take your detector back out there? I would of had to,could be something else out there too.Pennies under one log who knows whats under the next? Interesting story. Good luck and H.H.

[TrpnBils]

No I haven't yet, but I might. It's out in the middle of nowhere like I said, and you have to walk there, so I'll wait til it cools down a little bit and the snakes are out during the day, that way I can take that with me too and kill two birds with one stone...lol.

There was one wheat in the pile, but most of them were from the 80's - 00's

[Ady]

Snake Hunting! This must be an american thing. The snakes here in Australia are all too damn deadly. But what a great find and story.
Thanks and happy snake hunting.

[Monty]

Maybe the relatives of the snakes imprisoned in your basement were saving up bail money? JIM

[TrpnBils]

Maybe the relatives of the snakes imprisoned in your basement were saving up bail money?? JIM

Snakes imprisoned in my basement? That's news to me. It sounds like PETA could use a guy like you.

I don't keep or even capture the snakes. I do a lot of wildlife photography, and reptiles just happen to be on my project list this year.

[elkman13]

Coins may have been put there by a pack rat. Find where he is getting them and there may be more.