🥇 BANNER Giant pocket spill or small cache...you decide!

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Good morning fellow diggers,

I was poking around in the woods yesterday, trying to get some quality detecting time in before the rain. I was way off trail when I came upon a very solid, very loud signal that sounded too good to pass up. After a little probing, I discovered that the signal was directly under a very large, flat rock. With a little effort I was able to flip the rock over, and pin-point the target. Long story, short the target turned out to be the world's biggest pocket spill, or a cache of coins hidden by someone back around 1920.

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There were 13 Buffalo nickels, 3 Liberty nickels, 2 Barber dimes, 2 Mercury dimes,

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3 Barber quarters, and 1 Standing Liberty quarter

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I can't quite describe how exciting it was to see all of these coins come out of the ground! Thanks for looking! Scott
 

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Looks like it was a cache to me! Under a rock and check out the staining on the quarters: looks like they were in a stack under there. Amazing find, I know the coins themselves might not be worth thousands, but the rarity of cache finds makes this a banner in my eyes. My vote is on the way. GREAT find!
 

a couple dozen coins in one hole wow!
that would be more than enough to put a hole in your pocket let alone your day...I feel it was someone's stash...now it's yours, congrats on that!
 

Got to be a cache! What an amazing find!!

To me this is Banner Worthy!
 

wow! killer find
 

I agree with others, this was a cache ! For all of them to be under a large rock makes the case rather clearly , and the number of coins recovered argues against a spill ..I'm leaning banner on this as well ..Very exciting find !
 

Great find! That will be tough to beat.
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dts
 

Looks like a cache to me since the coins were stacked. Nice find!
 

Cache for sure.
That was a small fortune for the era.
Plus ,the marker rock. The odds of a rock just happening to end up on top of a spill are slim. (Unless an entire site is a layer of rock , or covered with slabs for a walkway ect..)
 

You gotta wonder what their story was.
 

That’s Amazing!!! A find of Dreams!!!! Congrats!!!!
 

Congratualtions! Definitely a cache! :notworthy:
 

Nice cache/spill! Judging by the wear, I think it's more like that it was buried sometime in the 30's.
 

Awesome find! At 2.00 I'm thinking it's a depression era hobo's paid labor savings stash, or something like a bootlegger's dead-drop exchange location. Better detect around any other rocks in the area!
 

Fantastic digs! Congratulations!
 

Wow that's very cool. Do you think there was an old house or buildings in that area back in the day?
 

I'm leaning toward giant pocket spill but before I make up my mind... Do you have a lot of giants in your area?


Cool find! I'm jealous.
 

super good find like the other member, id be checkin out a few more of those rocks
 

What a find! Banner vote already submitted. Good luck.
 

Id call that a cache, Congrats!:occasion14:
 

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