Sorry guys I was away. I posted the story in Cache Hunting. To recap. My family moved to a house when I was 5 lived tere 27 years.
It is an 1853 farm hose done a ton of research. The family was very promient at the time had 600 acres of maple groves. On of the biggest maple syrup manufacturers. Had patents on the jarring and shipping crates. They grew apples, berries, peaches etc. I have visited there graves in a forgotten pioneer cemetery, and the church they used t belong to I got my detector in 97 and started practicing at home before I toreup anyone elses land. Well this site has been hunted regularly by me eversince then and I am still amazed at the finds.
Bullets, bttons, buckles, toys, knives, relics of all sorts, rings, ancient jewelry, farm equipment. Oneof every type of us coin (penny, nckle dime and quarter ) some halves.
Then one day after reading out detecting crawl spaces in lost treasure magazine, I decided to give it a try and Found one indian cent and nothing else. Before I left the cellar there was one corner where they used to store coal, that had not been covered wit concrete o I thought what the heck its rainingoutsd so better than nothing. It ws a 7x7'area and it took me several hours to digall the coins out of the ground. I got a ton of signals in this area. Dug down about 6 inches and hit glass It was a green mason jar and I couldsee morgan silvr dollars in the jar. I was shaking so hard trying to dig this jar ot of the tough clay earth That jr was so heavy. My friend and I sat there and stare at it for about ten minutes. Not wanting to take out any coins till later to carefully do it as to not damage any.
Then before filling the hole decded to check it again and a strong signal, the coin just kept coming aout by the handfuls, some as deep as nearly a foot in the cay.
In ttal I dug down about 2 feet and widened the hole about 2 feet across. I still get signals from the area bt havent ound anything else.
The ironic part is we use to come down hear during tornados and storms that was the only time, cause it is dark damp and full of snakes. Weued to sit on the huge rock that covered thiscache al those years not knowing what ly just beneath us.
I ot home and filled the sink with arm soap water and suberged the jar and coins. I pulled them out 1 by 1 looking t them documenting the date condition mint marks etc. 160 mrgan silver dollars, 34 barber silver halves, 43 barber silver quarters, an 6 seated liberty halves
WhenI got to the jar I slowly started pulling the coins out and rinsing 1 by1 in the center f the jar wrapped in newspaper were 3 $10 gold eagles and 7 $5 gold hlf eagles.
Al the coins were xxf - Un condition and alot of cc mint marks 1 of every date and nearly every mint morgan silver dollar. Pt together almost a complete collectin from them. The newest date on any coin was 1902 and the oldest was 1853 th same year the house was built. Estimated value of ths collection is around $20,000 at retail prices
Everyone tells me this is a once in a lifetime find which means I might as well stop hunting, no thanks I will find another.
I wll post pics when I get a chance guys.
