Coin Tree!!! What the heck is a coin tree...

[chukers]

I found this today on the net... I never ever hear of the thing but I found it very interesting!

a coin tree... also known as a wish tree... anyone else run into this? now be honest...


Chukers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Tree

 

[idahotokens]

Interesting! The current issue of Wayne Homren's E-Sylum also carried an item on this. His reference was to
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-trees-studded-coins-illness-away-sick.html
John in ID

 

[azlegends]

That's awesome, I've never heard of that.

 

[chukers]

That's awesome, I've never heard of that.

I am all about coins and have been for 25+ years and I never heard of this either... imagine the coins lost under the trees!


Chukers

 

[Silver Searcher]

Very interesting wish I could find one on a Saxon site

SS

 

[sniffer]

I just saw another post about that. I believe it is used in England. they would take a coin and a rock, make a wish and pound the coin into the tree. kinda like a wishing well with no water and a lot more labor. LOL

 

[maipenrai]

Never heard of a wishing tree, but just the other day, I was thinking about detecting some trees also. Some trees make good hiding places for small amounts of coins, or other ill gotten items. I remember as a kid, hidding things in trees.

Has anyone here found anything in a tree, in a rotten knot hole, or hollowed out tree?

 

[mick56]

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", the kids hid stuff in a hollow tree.