Lots of goodies! Old Foreign Coin Cache and more! :)

[bazinga]

I had the itch to go out and hun today. I hadn't been out yet for the month of September, so I was definately due to get out and have some fun in the dirt!

I went to two houses with small front yards and got your usual clad... nothing exciting at all.

Then the 3rd house gave me the good stuff!

I had dug several wheats and then got a deep signal... about 8" down I pulled out a nice 1920D Mercury Dime. I started to grid out the area and out of nowhere I got a hit at about 4" down that I thought would be a wheat penny. Boy was I wrong!! The following coins came out of that hole:

1866 Indian Head Cent
1914 Silver 50 Cen?s.... help on where from please
1916 Canadian Large Cent
2 1921 Canadian Cents
Silver 'Fish Scale' too worn to ID.... darn
Republic of China Ten Cash Coin.... anyone know anything about this one??

7 Nice old coins out of one hole! I only did about 1/4 of the yard. I decided to save some and go back another day when one of my buddies can go with. I got 10 wheats out of that yard in total.

With that in mind I went out to one of the old parks in town and was hoping the detector gods would give me somehting good for being so generous.... and they did.... I got 4 more wheats, a 1919 Mercury Dime, a rusted ring with hearts on it, and a Good For 5 Cents Token marked F.T. on the reverse.

 

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[tinpan]

wtg and congrats on your finds and happy hunting

tinpan

 

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[dave-enc]

congrats on the nice finds wtg
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[bazinga]

Fantastic bunch of finds,really making the Explorer pay its own way,I wonder if the group of coins in the single hole was buried by a child since there wasnt any sort of container? Maybe daddy was a coin collector who didnt notice the coins were missing and by the time he did the child had no idea where he may have buried them..or...Thngs you dig up really get ya thinking.

Yeah... my best guess is that they were done by a child, probably during the early 1920s since the newest coin is 1921 and both of them look XF40 or better in condition. It's fun to think how they ended up together roughly 80+ years ago and wondering what events had to occur for them to all be there in the ground still stuck together.

 

[Detectingfreak]

That is a lot of good coins!!! Good job on finding them!!