AMAZING! The girlfriend finds horde of silver coins at gold rush 49er site!!!!

[FriscoT06]

What a memory. That is a bucket list hunt if I ever heard of one. CONGRATS.

[J.Cache]

Just sprayed coffee all over my screen, what an amazing pile of silver! Wow, congrats is an understatement

[GaRebel1861]

What an awesome find!

[Javadroid]

AMAZING is right! I don't think I'd sleep for the next month if I pulled in such a find. Congratulations, and thank you for the inspiration this brings the rest of us!

[stealthycat]

unbelievable !

anyone else cringing that shovel hammering away so close to 1850's coins !!!

[Revrob]

Thats freaking amazing! This deserves banner, rules or not.

[Steve in PA]

Took a while to clean and index them. Here are the list of coins by year, type, and # of each in parenthesis.

1850 -1 franc (11)
1850 – French 50 cents (32)
1850 – 2 reales Nueva Granada (1)
1850 – american dime (1)
1850 – half american dime (1)
1849 – 1 franc (41)
1849 – 2 franc (1)
1848 – 2 reales Nueva Granada (3)
1848 – French 50 cents (1)
1847 – 1 franc (2)
1847 – French 50 cents (2)
1846 - French 50 cents (2)
1846 – 1 franc (2)
1844 – 1 franc (3)
1844- England 6 pence (1)
1842- american dime (1)
1841- 2 reales popayan (1)
1840- 1 franc (1)
1837 – 1 franc (1)
1837- ¼ franc (1)
1836 – 1 franc (1)
1834 – 1 franc (4)
1834 – ½ franc (2)
1832 – 1 franc (1)
1832 – ½ franc (1)
1831 – 1 franc (1)
1830 – 1 real colombia (1)
1828- 1 franc (1)
1827 - 1 franc (1)
1824 - 1 franc (1)
1818- 1 real colombia (1)- holed
1817 – 1 franc (1)
1816 – 1 franc (1)
1813 – 1 franc (1)
1812- 1 franc (2)
1811- 1 franc (1)
1809 – 1 franc (1)
1808- 1 franc (4)
1806- 1 franc (1)


11 other unidentified coins or with partial information, 4 of these are holed

That is quite an assortment of coins. Something bad must have happened to the original owner. I'm surprised there wasn't any gold in the mix. I didn't scroll through all the posts, so sorry if you already answered this - did you find any other relics that would indicate a camp or structure was there?

[Ammoman]

Now that's what i call a suspense thriller! Every time the shovel went close to the hole, my jaw clinched and i jumped with fear. Thank goodness it all worked out.

BTW...Awesome recovery

[The_Piratess]

Wtg Lily congrats!!! Marry that chica hijo! I'll bet she cooks good too...

[Silvermonkey]

Really amazing story and recovery. Congratulations.

[perdidogringo]

unbelievable !

anyone else cringing that shovel hammering away so close to 1850's coins !!!

LOL! Yeah, that's one target area of improvement for Lily. She gets on a roll and all excited when digging when she needs to be a little less aggressive. She once found a 1730 Potosi 1 real and dinged it pretty good with her shovel!

[perdidogringo]

That is quite an assortment of coins. Something bad must have happened to the original owner. I'm surprised there wasn't any gold in the mix. I didn't scroll through all the posts, so sorry if you already answered this - did you find any other relics that would indicate a camp or structure was there?

We've searched the general areas several times and found a few individual coins from the era and many 49ers-era relics. My best find was a gold nugget, probably dropped on the way back from California.

[perdidogringo]

Wtg Lily congrats!!! Marry that chica hijo! I'll bet she cooks good too...

She makes a great sancocho and arepa!

[UnderMiner]

Very historic find. Could make your very own museum exhibit with this! This is American history in physical form, should keep it all together and on display somewhere.

[Tnmountains]

That was great!