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

Silvermonkey · Apr 3, 2020

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.

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

3 Barber quarters, and 1 Standing Liberty quarter

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

Bigdaddybflo · Apr 4, 2020

That’s what I dream about every night !! Awesome find

MetalArchSC · Apr 4, 2020

Cool!

Silvermonkey · Apr 4, 2020

Thanks for all of the nice comments everyone! It's great fun to hear from T-Net members from all over the US and the world. What a great community! The rain has finally stopped here in Massachusetts, so I will be back out to that spot later today to scan over, around, under every rock I can find...you just never know! Scott

terpfan · Apr 4, 2020

I believe it to be a Depression era cache. Times were tough and cash was tight. This stash amounted to a sizable amount of money to someone at that time, and your recovery is a powerful reminder of that difficult time. Its no coincidence that so many caches posted on TNET feature coins with similar dates.

Crusty Shellback · Apr 4, 2020

Good luck!

A2coins · Apr 5, 2020

Thats a stash cache those are the kind of finds I love they dont come along very often but they do thats enough to make up for a couple dud hunts Great find

Joe-Dirt · Apr 5, 2020

Daaaaaaaaamn son, that’s awesome!!!!!!! Congrats!! If that was me, it would be all memorial cents (;

trdking · Apr 5, 2020

I vote for the cache theory as well. Where there is one there is another. I would hunt that entire area for another. 2 days pay. Lots of buriers did not bury it all in one spot in case it was discovered. Hunt away! If you can pin point a center like a house a well or a very large tree Make sure you hunt a radius from that point. I also vote banner. Small value but a truly rare find.
I can't imagine finding 13 beefalos in one spot? Wowy

Steve in PA · Apr 5, 2020

That is so cool and had to have been a real thrill to pull all those coins out of one hole .

Locke · Apr 5, 2020

Whatever you call it’s it’s an amazing find!!

park pirate · Apr 6, 2020

Wow outstanding man... :icon_thumleft:

ANTIQUARIAN · Apr 6, 2020

Oh man, don't we all hope to make a find like this in the woods! :occasion14:

I agree this find is worthy of a BANNER, submitting my nomination now.

Dave

xcopperstax · Apr 6, 2020

I'd go with cache what an exciting find to make! Congrats on it all! I think my best silver spill has been 3 silvers!

mindcrime1988 · Jun 26, 2020

Sweet coin cache find. :icon_thumleft:

ANTIQUARIAN · Jun 27, 2020

trdking said:
I vote for the cache theory as well. Where there is one there is another. I would hunt that entire area for another. 2 days pay. Lots of buriers did not bury it all in one spot in case it was discovered. Hunt away! If you can pin point a center like a house a well or a very large tree Make sure you hunt a radius from that point. I also vote banner. Small value but a truly rare find.
I can't imagine finding 13 beefalos in one spot? Wowy

Great advice Randy! :thumbsup:

Congratulations on achieving your first BANNER Scott... it certainly took it's sweet time climbing it's way to the top of the screen. :laughing7:

Dave

Silvermonkey · Jun 28, 2020

Thanks to all! This " Banner" award means a lot to me. It represents a lot of time in the field, and a lot of holes in the ground. I wish everyone good hunting!

terpfan · Jun 29, 2020

I love this thread and went back to read it again. I took a closer look at the photo showing the flat rock under which the coins were buried. It appears there is a huge tree trunk adjacent to the hole. The tree appears to be well over a hundred years old. These two clues really confirm a cache. I'll bet that tree was the "marker" originally used to identify the site of the flat stone and cache.