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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[GroundS.KeepeR]

W W ..Very nice find! Find any arrowheads?

 

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[FatCat]

That is an awsome find, congrats. Goes to show that there is still lots of good stuff out there.

 

[Don in SJ]

Congrats on one super find! It does pay off to always be looking down while walking in the outdoors, I found a King George II Halfpenny way back in 1979 while walking along a sugar sand old stagecoach road looking for "Cape May Diamonds" (Glacier worn quartz crystals) and eyeballed the coin lying on top of the sand off the side of the road. That is basically how I got into metal detecting as one of my major hobbies!

Sure must have been a thrill seeing all those coins!!!

Don

 

[stevesno]

Fossis....Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! I am thrilled for you...Steve

 

[nova]

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JACKPOT

 

[Bobbert]

Congrats on this great find.

 

[fossis]

Great Recovery Fossis it looks like you found them just in time, judging by the condition of the can I think the next floods on that stream would have seen than can off...WQeldone on the Banner

SS

Thanks, i'me sure it wouldn't have held together much longer.

Fossis..........

 

[fossis]

Good for Fossis Well deserved banner!!!

Thanks

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

 

[fossis]

WOW! I love how your second pic is filled to the pan's brim with coin.

Did you use your detector at all or just your foot? Next time maybe leave it at home and just kick over stuff, lol

Great find!

Just my eyeballs & foot. :P

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

 

[fossis]

Congratulations.
Gorgeous tin of treasure.
Great scenery too.
That is one thing I sure miss about America, that beautiful bounty of rolling land.
Everything here is vertical.
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed this one.

You're quite welcome.

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

 

[fossis]

That is truly amazing! I can't imagine how many people walked by never knowing! As far as you can tell, how long was it there. You said some dates were 90's? Was the can pretty old or too hard to tell?

I walked by it many times, but the water was covering it then, I think it must have been in the water for at least ten years, it was almost ready to crumble.
Hard to tell about the can's age.
Thanks, Fossis...........

 

[ticm]

outstanding

 

[fossis]

wow ! 94 coins and i make 95th post. willy

Allright

Fossis..........

 

[fossis]

Congrats on the Banner i knew that find was worthy , i rotated your pic hope you dont mind now i dont have to look sideways Jim

Thanks, now my neck feels better too. :P

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

 

[fossis]

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)

Thanks for the clarifications, I have things to learn on coins.

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

 

[ivan salis]

I'm here to help folks.

 

[fossis]

Wow! Excellent find.

Thanks stagger, & welcome to TREASURE-NET.

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

 

[fossis]

What a tribe. Nice find. Congrats on the banner.

Thanks

Fossis..........

 

[fossis]

W W ..Very nice find! Find any arrowheads?

Thanks, just a few flint chips that day.

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

 

[fossis]

That is an awsome find, congrats. Goes to show that there is still lots of good stuff out there.

Thanks FatCat, it gives us all hope.

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