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

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[fossis]

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

Thanks Don, it sure was a 'thrill', I have found many things by always looking down.

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[fossis]

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

Thanks a lot Steve.

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[Chug And Red]

Woke up up this morning and saw that something new was up on the Banner!!!! Congrats!! on an excellent banner find!!
Now i can imagine all of the Indian artifact hunters running around looking for points and playing kick the can!!!! HH Chug

 

[fossis]

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Thanks

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

 

[fossis]

Congrats on this great find.

Thanks

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

 

[fossis]

outstanding

Thank you

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

 

[N.J.THer]

Awesome find, great pictures and congrats on the banner.

Ivan already pointed out that the 'flying eagle' quarter is actually a Standing Liberty quarter. Also in case you did not know the 1940s nickels are most likely war time nickels and 40% silver.

From the looks of the can one more season an that can may have broken open then all those coins would have been spread down the river.

NJ

 

[fossis]

Woke up up this morning and saw that something new was up on the Banner!!!! Congrats!! on an excellent banner find!!
Now i can imagine all of the Indian artifact hunters running around looking for points and playing kick the can!!!! HH Chug

Thanks, I had a friend that was deer hunting & looked under a piece of sheet iron, there was a body, the police needed it to seal the case.

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[foundation hunter]

Great find,that must have blew your mind when you found those coins!!!!!!
Gary

 

[fossis]

Awesome find, great pictures and congrats on the banner.

Ivan already pointed out that the 'flying eagle' quarter is actually a Standing Liberty quarter. Also in case you did not know the 1940s nickels are most likely war time nickels and 40% silver.

From the looks of the can one more season an that can may have broken open then all those coins would have been spread down the river.

NJ

Thanks, I knew the nickels had silver content, & the can was about to go south. :P

Fossis..........

 

[fossis]

Great find,that must have blew your mind when you found those coins!!!!!!
Gary

Thanks, it sure did, & i don't have much mind 'left to blow'.

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[ivan salis]

war nickles are 35% silver by weight * look for the large "mint" letters on the rear --odd fact the "P" war nickles was the first time philly minted coins were "mint marked" theres also D for denver and S for san francisco

much rather find the coins than a body -- but the man or womans family that died can rest at last and give the dead person a decent burail --and the criminal who killed them hpoefully will get whats due to them as well. ---thankfully the murder was to damn stupid and / or lazy to bury the body leaving it to be found --

sorry for your freind --finding a dead body is not easily forgotten -- we often found them when the great lakes thawed out in the spring time --* murder victims and / or folks that threw themselves off of bridges broke thru the ice and sank -- they sank in the cold winter waters but they would float to the surface once the waters warmed in the spring time.--- not pleasent at all.

 

[Trond]

Fantastic find.

 

[underdogger]

fossis . Got to be one of the best finds I ever seen on here . What a thrill it must have been to unload that can and see one by one history before your eyes . The best thing is they pretty much all were vintage coins . I hope your next find is just as nice . Congrats on banner most deserved . ROB.

 

[fossis]

war nickles are 35% silver by weight * look for the large "mint" letters on the rear --odd fact the "P" on the war nickles was the first time philly minted coins were "mint marked" theres also D for denver and S for san francisco

Thanks Ivan, we were really looking hard for a 1943 copper.

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[fossis]

Fantastic find.

Thanks
Fossis...........

 

[fossis]

fossis . Got to be one of the best finds I ever seen on here . What a thrill it must have been to unload that can and see one by one history before your eyes . The best thing is they pretty much all were vintage coins . I hope your next find is just as nice . Congrats on banner most deserved . ROB.

Thanks Rob, it sure was a 'thrill' to find them, & looking through the pile.

HH to you also

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[WilliamBoyd]

Somebody dropped their coin collection.

 

[kuger]

Incredible find!!If you have a Sheild with a date of 1836....you truly have a rare coin as they werent minted until much later,

 

[fossis]

Somebody dropped their coin collection.

I suspect it was stolen, then tossed after they got 'scared', there were no houses around for miles.

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