Foreign Coin Cahce or Massive Spill

[I am Ironman]

Foreign Coin Cache or Massive Spill

Went back to an area where I had found an early 1900s British Farthing and a silver Cuban quarter. Dug a faint signal and found another farthing at 8+ inches. I poked the pin pointer around in the hole and found there were more coins, deeper. Got another similar target right next to it and multiple coins there too. I ended up excavating a 3 foot by 5 foot area to about a foot or foot and a half of depth. Digging all signals. There were coins everywhere including 8 silvers. All foreign. It was 90+ degrees out in full sun. Nearly had a heat stroke but diggin all them coins sure was fun.

Found 50 coins in all. Here is a list. Silvers on top. The prices are rough and based on my Internet research. I have not had anything graded.

1958 Mexican peso $2.50 (10% silver)
1959 Mexican peso $2.50 (10% silver)
1923 Egyptian 20 qirsh Fuad silver $95.00
19?? Egyptian 2 piastres silver $15.00
1943 Indian half rupee silver $10.00
1940 British six pence silver $10.00
1953 Cuban 25 cents silver $15.00
1916 Cuban 10 cents silver $65.00

1959 Italian 100 lire $1.50

1901 Swiss 5 rappen $0.50

1959 British 3 pence
1949 British 6 pence
1948 British 3 pence
1958 British 3 pence
1955 British Shilling
1965 British Caribbean 25 cents
1902 British penny
1940 British penny
1936 British penny
1934 British penny
1939 British penny
1950 British penny
1935 British penny
1937 British penny
1939 British penny

1954 Greek 50 lepta $1.00
1954 Greek 5 drachma $0.50
1954 Greek 2 drachma
1959 Greek lepta
1953 Greek lepta

1875 German 5 pfennig $3.00
1876 German 10 pfennig c $5.00
1941 German 10 pfennig a $1.00

1956 Mexican 5 cents
1958 Mexican 5 cents
1965 Mexican 5 cents
1942 Mexican 10 cents
1956 Mexican 50 cents
1965 Mexican 5 cents
1942 Mexican 5 cents $10
1956 Mexican 20 cents

1946 Cuban 5 cents

1947 Canadian penny
1963 Canadian penny
1959 Canadian penny

1947 2 Francs
1952 10 Francs

1943 Ceylon 25 cents $0.50
1944 Ceylon 5 cents

1941 Indian 2 Annas $2.00

1955 Jordanian 50 fils

Egypt 10 milliemes

17th Century - Shih Tsu Reign (1644-1661) - 4th Series Chinese coin $2

Here is a lo fi picture from my iPad. I will try to get better pictures soon.

 

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[vpnavy]

Outstanding I am Ironman. Thanks for sharing...

 

[huntsman53]

Probably some kid burying Dad's or Grandad's stolen foreign coin collection so that they would'nt get caught red-handed! Great haul though and some of which are decent collectible coins! Congrats, now wipe the sweat off! LOL!!


Frank

 

[Bruce Ct]

Exciting find !! Must of had your blood pumping! I had a similar experience about 10 years ago in back of a 1700's house here in Ct. I had a lower end machine at the time and I had found about 9 Chinese cash coins all in the same area. In rescanning the hole after the last coin I was still getting faint readings. I kept pulling out more dirt and widening the hole and finding more coins. I wound up digging an area about 4x4 feet and 8 inches deep before I was done. Total 79 Cash coins of various types ranging from the 1600's - early 1800's. I KNOW what you were feeling !!

Bruce

 

[g-olden years]

TOTALLY THRILLING! I enjoyed your description of the dig as much as seeing all the wonderful coins you'd dug! Andi

 

[cazisme]

If your in Florida may be a Cuban refugee stash from the 50's make sure you detect around the area for more caches/stashes. Great find!

 

[WilliamBoyd]

What makes one think it was stolen?

Probably just some kid's coin collection.

 

[mr_larry]

That is crazy! Great find! I would love to see more pictures!

 

[Hi-Yo Silver]

Ironman, you are a beast! I will have to double-down my efforts to catch up with this madness!

 

[Argentium]

I too would love to see some closer pics of this cache - great finds !

 

[I am Ironman]

Thanks everybody. I looked all around there. Dug every faint signal. Did find more after the first round. Seems like every faint signal was an old foreign coin. Eventually, I exhausted it. I have thoughts of cleaning the surface real well and going in with the surf PI. I was thinking there might be gold in the collection. If so, I figure it would be deep.

I will try to get some better pix soon.

 

[I am Ironman]

Pics of the silvers

 

[jewelerguy]

wow instant foreign coin collection!

 

[doc-d]

Awesome, how deep were the coins?
And it sounds like a good idea to return with the PI

 

[Sawyer]

Yeeehawww! Great bunch of coins!

 

[Talon]

What a cool find. I love foreign coins! I enjoy seeing all the new details on the coins that we don't have here. Great job!

 

[yaxthri]

Wow great find...

 

[Subterranean]

If your in Florida may be a Cuban refugee stash from the 50's make sure you detect around the area for more caches/stashes. Great find!

I concur, based on your newest coin being a 1959, the year of the communist takeover of the Cuban government. Congrats on a very cool discovery! Sub

 

[joshua2]

Nice finds

 

[cntrydncr1]

very cool!! congrats. must have been so exciting!