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?
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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!
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
WEEKEND CLAD COUNTER 2007
Pennies: 2094
Nickels: 436
Dimes: 917
Quarters: 648
Kennedy Half Dollars: 4
Susan B Anthony: 1
Sac Dollar: 1
George Washington Dollar coin: 1
Total Clad Coins: 4095
Total Amount: $301.33
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.
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Re: Most coins found in one hole?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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, unlike all the rolls of wheats that have been posted.
