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Coin Purse Spill

CDNHappyhunter

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northern ontario
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explorer 2 /whites BH300
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Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Hi folks, first time posting here, just had to share my finds from yesterday. Headed out to an old cellar hole ( far and few behind up here in Canada) and started to swing away.
Nothing inside so i moved to the side, about 3 feet from the path i registered a nice repeatable copper signal. Carefully dug down about 6 inches , and out came a small piece of leather with a small "O" ring on it.
Hmm, went to stand up and thought, ahhhh, better sweep again, and "bang" huge silver sound came through the head phones. Starting to shake i carfully removed a bit more dirt from the hole, and there standing on edge, a 1838 US half.
These are very, very rare to find up here so needless to say i was pumped. I stood up and started to move away , when a little voice says " hey fool , scan the area around the hole",, no way,, but i did ( yep twice i almost didnt re-scan) and the machine started going nuts. In an area roughly 16 inches wide i pulled out 6 halves dating from 1822 to 1844 and 1 province of canada half penny token.
Needless to say, my best find ever, i think i sat in the bush shaking for about half an hour before i could trust my legs to get me back to othe car :tongue3: Enjoy the pics, first few are uncleaned, next few are after a light soaking in warm water.
 

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An absolutely fabulous find! We see more gold coins posted here than purse spills that old; what a thrill that must have been!
 
:crybaby2: <--- yes this is me right now !
 
Now that I'm done cryin my eyes out , wait a sec ..... :( 'sniff' ....... OK ! all betta.

A coin "spill ?" or coin "bury ?" . Figure that kinda cash back then was a hard earned weeks + pay , and most people didn't trust banks as much as the Bank of Earth. !

If thats the case and they were buried the burier musta met a sudden untimely death or some nasty demise without passing on the secerted stash ! The only way I can concieve someone losing that kinda cash and not searching untill their feet fell off would be to lose the coin purse in the snow. But even then good chance it would have been found in the spring being so close to the house. Sorry but finds of this nature such as your AWESOME early American wilver and finds which I have made always make me wonder Who-What-Where-When-Why & How :dontknow: ???

Congrats !!!! I'm super green with envy !! :blob1:
 
This is a really jaw dropper! Congraduations! :notworthy: :notworthy:
 
And all I have to say is nothing.....Still shaking my head.Congratulation's on a Spectactular Find of a Lifetime.Beautiful !!!!
 
HOKY SMOKE what a great FIND!!! :tongue3:
Congrats!!! IT sure is a good thing you decided to rescan. HEy if you went home after the first coin you would of went back in no time at all just hoping for more!
Banner for sure! Lifetime find!! will be hard to top!
AWSOME!!!!! was the original house still there or was it just a foundation left?
 
congrats on Banner :hello2: :hello2: :hello2: :hello2: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
 
billKY said:
jeff of pa said:
Sorry New Members Don't make the banner

this is just a rule to get to know people and their intentions first.


Great find! and welcome to treasurenet, and great job on making banner, just wondering howcome a person that found a 1916 D Merc, didnt make banner because he was a "new member" with only 16 posts.

So if new members don't make the banner, "this is just a rule to get to know people and their intentions", how did a "new member" with 6 post, make banner with the coin spill??? All of us on this site have the same thing in common, love of metal detecting. What else do we need to know?

-Happy Dirt Fishing
Dan32981
 
That is something I have only dreamed of finding. That is totaly awesome.



WTG
 
Truly a sweet find, worth the trip to a meeting just to see them. Worth another trip back there :headbang:
 
Congrats on one of the best change purse finds I've ever seen!!! It absolutely belongs right where it sits,up top in the banner!!! WTG, Bootstrap :icon_pirat:
 
should be in the banner
 

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