Day 2 -8 coins at the Mystery of a wishing tree

[Roger Mn.]

I went back and found 8 more coins. 1916 Barber Dime ,1916 Buffalo Nickel,2- 1928 Lincoln Cents , a 1910-D,1926 -D ,1916 .
I don't know what the coin is under the Barber Dime but it is a hair larger than the Lincoln cents and it sticks to a magnet .
Here are some pictures of the tree.
I run the E-Trac coil inside the tree and got coin signals . I took the shovel and pried a hunk of bark from inside the tree and got 2 coins and dug the rest from inside the tree and the Barber Dime was over 14 or more inches deep. I put the E-Trac in pinpoint mode to get that dime or it would not have made a sound in all metal mode. Might have been that i couldn't move the detector back and forth very much.

 

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[Roger Mn.]

Great finds! We all detect the base of trees but few ever take the time to detect in a tree. I've detected bark at the trunk and have pulled bullets, but nothing else. Might the coins have been stashed long ago in a cavity of this tree, which later grew around them, and then rotted away?

The tree i think is a maple and two trees grew together. One tree fell away leaving a big hole. I have seen a lot of trees that fell over and a hole inside big enough for a person to crawl into. I don't know why the trees get hollow inside but a lot of them do.
So what someone did was to go inside the hollow tree and nail the coins on the inside of the tree. No coins were found anywhere on the outside of the tree. So being nailed inside the tree and that rotting away more let the pieces of wood with the coin inside drop to the bottom were all the decaying wood pilled up. Some of the wood the coins were in had rotted just leaving the coin.
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[JeffInMass]

Fantastic pictures & coins- Congrats!!

-- Jeff --