🥇 BANNER Giant pocket spill or small cache...you decide!

Silvermonkey

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Good morning fellow diggers,

I was poking around in the woods yesterday, trying to get some quality detecting time in before the rain. I was way off trail when I came upon a very solid, very loud signal that sounded too good to pass up. After a little probing, I discovered that the signal was directly under a very large, flat rock. With a little effort I was able to flip the rock over, and pin-point the target. Long story, short the target turned out to be the world's biggest pocket spill, or a cache of coins hidden by someone back around 1920.

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There were 13 Buffalo nickels, 3 Liberty nickels, 2 Barber dimes, 2 Mercury dimes,

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3 Barber quarters, and 1 Standing Liberty quarter

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I can't quite describe how exciting it was to see all of these coins come out of the ground! Thanks for looking! Scott
 

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NZ49er

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Looks like it was a cache to me! Under a rock and check out the staining on the quarters: looks like they were in a stack under there. Amazing find, I know the coins themselves might not be worth thousands, but the rarity of cache finds makes this a banner in my eyes. My vote is on the way. GREAT find!
 

ironhorse

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a couple dozen coins in one hole wow!
that would be more than enough to put a hole in your pocket let alone your day...I feel it was someone's stash...now it's yours, congrats on that!
 

SeabeeRon

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Got to be a cache! What an amazing find!!

To me this is Banner Worthy!
 

Argentium

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I agree with others, this was a cache ! For all of them to be under a large rock makes the case rather clearly , and the number of coins recovered argues against a spill ..I'm leaning banner on this as well ..Very exciting find !
 

dts52

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Great find! That will be tough to beat.
HH
dts
 

releventchair

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Cache for sure.
That was a small fortune for the era.
Plus ,the marker rock. The odds of a rock just happening to end up on top of a spill are slim. (Unless an entire site is a layer of rock , or covered with slabs for a walkway ect..)
 

Digger RJ

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That’s Amazing!!! A find of Dreams!!!! Congrats!!!!
 

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Congratualtions! Definitely a cache! :notworthy:
 

cudamark

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Nice cache/spill! Judging by the wear, I think it's more like that it was buried sometime in the 30's.
 

Plumbata

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Awesome find! At 2.00 I'm thinking it's a depression era hobo's paid labor savings stash, or something like a bootlegger's dead-drop exchange location. Better detect around any other rocks in the area!
 

Crusty Shellback

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Wow that's very cool. Do you think there was an old house or buildings in that area back in the day?
 

Doubter in MD

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I'm leaning toward giant pocket spill but before I make up my mind... Do you have a lot of giants in your area?


Cool find! I'm jealous.
 

islamoradamark

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super good find like the other member, id be checkin out a few more of those rocks
 

HuntH2002

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Id call that a cache, Congrats!:occasion14:
 

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