94 Indians In The River

[fossis]

While taking pic's & looking for arrowheads yesterday, I was walking in a dry section of a local river, I saw this metal object & gave it a nudge with my boot, it was a tin can, the lid came off & it was (full to the brim with coins).
after collecting my wits about me, I started taking pic's, & hurried home to clean them.
The whole can was full of rust , & coins were even sticking together, so by noon the next day, (today), I finished cleaning them the best I can for now, they had been in a tobacco sack with a drawstring, in the can.
Totals were.............1 peace dollar
1 Silver coin from the Netherlands
4 walking liberty halves
10 mercury dimes
13 V nickels
1 Barber half dollar
2 Barber quarters
1 flying eagle quarter
94 Indian head pennies (oldest 1864)
9 buffalo nickels
4 recent nickels
15 foreign coins (nothing very good)
20 wheat pennies ( 30's, 40's, 1 shot with a bullet)
1 token (Good For 5 cents in trade), slick on the back
1 sheild nickel 1836 (the best I can tell)

Not a 'bad haul' for me. :P

Fossis.............

 

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[fossis]

now thats one happy find

It sure was

Fossis...........

 

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[fossis]

Terrific story and loot...my congrats to you.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

Fossis..............

 

[fossis]

Tremendous Hoist

Thanks

Fossis...........

 

[stryker-one]

Oh! Good on ya Fossis.
Just proves to me that there are still cacher's out there. Man oh Man.
Great pics too.

Stryker

 

[Nisroc]

Sweet Sweet finds! Banner!

Nis

 

[leefields]

great find...really great find

 

[fishkiller41]

VERY COOL!!
Someone's stash from the 40's!
Great,no,KILLER find!!

Jeff

 

[63bkpkr]

"Somewhere in your youth or childhood you must have done something awfully good!"

Great find, beautiful area, great pictures and thanks for the share. 63bkpkr

 

[Ramapirate]

That is so awesome. I'd love to hit something like that!! WTG!!

 

[chark21798]

Wow first time I saw your great story. Thats amazing. maybe someday ill find something like that. HH Mark

 

[The Master Chief]

My comments is just WOW!

 

[rebeljim52]

That is one great find.I will trade,got new detector today found four cents oldest 1958.
River sure looked nice. I vote banner.

 

[jeff of pa]

Sweet Sweet finds! Banner!

That is one great find.I will trade,got new detector today found four cents oldest 1958.
River sure looked nice. I vote banner.

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[phantomfinder]

NO way , thats too cool . WTG on your river find .

 

[ammo_u]

Very nice find fossis. I know the rivers here in OK are very low. Drove over the Arkansas in Jenks the other day and I have never seen it that low. The son and I are going to go out and do a little point hunting really soon while the waters are low.

 

[traverdog]

What a great find. One of the very best!!! Congratulations.

 

[fossis]

NO way , thats too cool . WTG on your river find .

Thanks

Fossis............

 

[fossis]

Very nice find fossis. I know the rivers here in OK are very low. Drove over the Arkansas in Jenks the other day and I have never seen it that low. The son and I are going to go out and do a little point hunting really soon while the waters are low.

Thanks, I hope we're not in for another Dust bowl, but now is the time to hunt the river beds.

Fossis............

 

[fossis]

What a great find. One of the very best!!! Congratulations.

Thanks to you all, & welcome to Treasure-Net traverdog.

Fossis...........

 

[p2c]

quite a odd mixture of coinage -- form 1861's thru 1990- large "date" range -- both local and foreign -- clearly had to be put into place /lost post 1990* quite odd that some one would cache a set of old silver coins like that -- but hey --I'd love a find like that anytime.-- 94 IH alone is great --and all that silver to boot --when you get done how about a "complete" listing of dates and types .

sheild nickles are post civil war -- so got to be 1886 --not 1836

your flying eagle quarter --is a standing liberty quarter ----aka as (SLQ)

Shield nickel was 1866 to 1883, so it is neither 1886 nor 1836

Great find! That's at least a couple of years of Indian Heads for me. The nice thing is that a lot of your nickels seemed nicely preserved by being in the can. I suppose we could all come up with stories to account for that can. Do look not only for 1909s indian head, but also 1877. I'd personally also look for 1859, though its not a key date, still having the different wreath on the reverse is interesting.