🥇 BANNER Epic Coin Spill . . . !

Mr.Merc · Jan 16, 2015

I am posting this separately from Mark's (49r Relics) post so I can answer questions, introduce myself and post pictures.

As Mark said, we were lucky to find a few new sites that we could detect on after he did some research. Me, Mark (49r Relics) and Ron Swenson (Ron CA) were all on this hunt and we all started detecting the site, spread out in different directions. It was my first day out with my new XP Deus so coming from a Minelab I knew I had better step my game up with Mark and Ron swinging CTX's. It was literally my first good repeatable signal that started this off. One thing to keep in mind is none of these were hard to hear and any decent detector on the market would have heard any of these. And any one of us 3 could have been the first to find one these. But it was definitely my day as I dug that 1864 Seated Half (I was lucky enough to have dug my first seated half earlier in the year) so I was pretty jazzed when this popped out. It was too late to video it because I had already popped it out. The rest of the hunt is history now but it could have been any of us!!

We went back to this site several times and countless hours were spent searching for more. Only relics, no more coins from this site.

Thank you for all the comments on the other thread!

Andrew
CA Relic Adventures

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Mr.Merc · Jan 17, 2015

pepperj said:
Congrats on making the banner and watching the video is... well if it doesn't get a persons blood pumping they're just plain cold hearted.

Just a question and if has been asked already I missed it. Looking at the profiles of the halves there's iron staining on at least 6 of the halves, was this because of iron around them, or could it of been that they were in a metal container? It's just that when watching the video the coins seemed to be in just dirt and there wasn't any iron staining around in the soil. Maybe it's hard to view on a video and would of been more evident to you when the plug was turned over and the recovery was made.

Once again thanks-this is what dreams are made of right there.

Hey thanks pepperj, I'm not sure why there is iron stainin on the coins. They were in an area where their was some iron but I wouldn't think enough to stain them. It's possible they were in a container at one point in time I guess. I will post some beter pics of the 92 and 93 later today. And I posted a link to the video at the top of the post. Thank you everyone again for the comments.

chkn · Jan 17, 2015

Doooood, that's the ultimate! Who-hoo!!!

Coilcrazy2 · Jan 17, 2015

Excellent cache!! Being in CA I can imagine it was a gold miner's cache. Often back then if you were the type of person to go out west and mine for gold, you are also the type of person that would hoard/burry your money. Excellent recovery man!and congrats on the banner

bill from lachine · Jan 17, 2015

Andrew,

I'm a bit late to the party but great finds and another well deserved banner.

Regards + HH

Bill

EasternShoreMetal · Jan 17, 2015

Me too, late that is.
But I celebrate with you all and the video was great to see, so we could share it with you. You were fairly quiet, I'm like that, on a find that unreal, I'd just be, inside - OMGosh, OMGosh, OMGosh!

dirtlooter · Jan 17, 2015

congrats, the area had to be alive with electricity from the excitement! I don't figure you guys got any sleep that night, how many times did you pinch yourself?

AU Seeker · Jan 17, 2015

Andrew congratulations on an epic find of a lifetime, getting those Eagles out of hibernation and the Banner as icing on the top!!!!!!

Congratulations also to Mark!!!

Kudos to Ron for his great videography!!

A question, how were these coins cleaned?

cw0909 · Jan 17, 2015

mr. merc,i watched the vid again not only are you calm, funny too, 6$ gas money LOL
was there any more coins older than 1894

EccentricInTexas · Jan 17, 2015

AMAZING FINDS!!!

The Rebel · Jan 17, 2015

WTG on an AMAZING Hunt! It's hunts like that, that keep us going!

heepiepow · Jan 18, 2015

Aweseome finds, so beautiful!! I love the video; one of my favorites is the dirt-licking to find the date lol.

Oh, now you might have to change your handle to Mr. Half!

park pirate · Jan 18, 2015

Outstanding for sure congrats on your banner and welcome to the fourm....

nsdq · Jan 18, 2015

wow...................................now only if it was not frozen here

Silverseeker · Jan 18, 2015

That hunt was amazing to watch. I loved every second of the video. As for your finds... Even better. Congrats on finding what we all dream of.

Hondo · Jan 18, 2015

Truly incredible, you must still be in shock over the scale of that hunt. ( I know I would be!). I imagine you must be thrilled beyond description! Congrats!

Professor of Engineering · Jan 18, 2015

Welcome to the forum, excellent photos and double congratulations on your finds.

Chug And Red · Jan 18, 2015

Red Just Asked What I Was Doing on the Computer I Told Her I was Watching An Amazing Dirty Video!!!! Yep She Guessed Treasurenet!!! Sweet Dig congrats on the Banner HH Chug and Red