Finding coins

[canes2016]

Have been hunting several cellar holes (dating back to late 1700’s) for the past year; have found lots of nails, hoe blades, brooch, knives, forks, broken plates/pottery, bridle bit and 2 buttons. However, the elusive coin find continues....

Is this a common occurrence in that there will be certain sites that will not yield a coin??

 

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[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

I had a few sites like that, I just kept at it and then I started making finds. Try going wide of the cellar holes. Someone else could have did a good cleaning out on coins before you started on the site.

 

[Tuberale]

I think Dave in M.D. probably has a good point. In Portland, OR we don't have many cellar holes...

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Just keep clearing that stuff from around those cellar holes...big iron will mask coins that are much smaller in size..and DFX DAVE is 100% correct, work your way out from the entrances, and hopefully the iron will thin out and the coins will appear..GL !! Ddf

 

[Scrappy]

A lot of holes have been hunted to pieces, but I'm sure you figured on that. With the targets you've listed it sounds like that could be the case.

Usually what left is iffy highs signals, shaky mids, and most lows.

That's said, I've made a sub-hobby of scoring big on "hunted out" sites. Keep at it!!

 

[sutphin]

I WOULD HAVE THE DIRT FLYING LOOKS AS IF YOURE IN A GOOD SPOT , NICE FINDS .

 

[trapperart]

There will be goodies there keep at it good luck

 

[dts52]

There is always the possibility that the tight-fisted Yankee farmer just didn't lose any coins there, or that he never had any to lose. Good advice from the others, though, keep at it, widen your search area and by all means, try to locate the outhouse hole.
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[Trezurehunter]

It all depends. I just continue to hunt a site until I feel there probably isnt anything left there to find, which means hitting it 4 to 5 times. Some hunters cherry pick the coin signals, but tend to leave a lot of nice relics out there. Then again some sites are just full of garbage. Give it a few more try's before writing it off.

 

[Deft Tones]

Your relic hunt sounds exactly like mine. Don't give up!

I scounted a location that was a farm at least 1860 until 1993. Found one silver quarter at that time and put the site in my pocket until yesterday.

Using a sheet of plywood to compress the vegetation, I hunted for over 6 hours using two machines and didn't find one single coin. Pocket knife, porcelain shards, horse tack, aluminum, lead, round nails, brass shells, rusty steel cans, etc.

What pops out of the ground is a total crapshoot! I enjoyed the unpredictability of it.

Next time I'm planning to look at more iron signals, particularly the can sized signals.

It was alot more work than park hunting for jewelry, and slow going, but I had so much fun I'm doing it again tomorrow.

 

[BobTheDigger]

I agree with the others about sticking to it and widening your search from the cellar holes. Some of my best coins came from 100+ feet from the cellar hole. Keep in mind that the folks back then usually had many acres of land and they were out working on it every day. Sounds like you have found a lot of things from the time period from those places. You'll eventually come across a coin at one of them and it will probably from that time period as well.

 

[Ammoman]

My son and i have been working a farm house dating back to 1860. Lots of Trash and iron and that's about it. The same thing at two other farm sites dating back to the late 1800s. From what i gather about old farms is this. These people had very little to no money and likely lived off the land. If they had money, it was put in the house until needed. On the flip side, old houses in the city limits are great places to hunt. people lived worked and shopped within walking distance of it all. Much higher rates of coin loss and pocket spills.