Gold coins

[garfield]

I need to locate a box of gold coins that 6 ft underground with in about 90000 sq/ft , can any one help me, and say what is a good detector or LRL can help please.

 

[garfield]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Doze off the top 6ft of dirt. Easily affordable with the proceeds. Monty

thank you Monty, but what do you mean exactly, I still don't know where to dig

 

[garfield]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

These 10,000 gold coins...are they in the Philippines?

No my dear they are not the Philippines, they are in Middle east, but it is worth the trip

 

[lastleg]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

* * chortle * *

 

[Keppy]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Well 6 feet i think a good Whites or Garrett or Fisher 2 box should get down that far if what is down there is big enought Whites say there 2 box detector will detect from 4 feet deep up to 20 feet deepso i guess all 2 box detectors should do about the same....

 

[ivan salis]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

a quality 2 box model can easily hit 6 feet deep -- ground pen radar is also a good way , but more costly .

 

[cybercop106]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

By "Ottoman Box", you're talking 16th-17th century, inlaid mother of pearl and bone miniature trunk with brass hinges and brass lockplate; dimensions 4"x4"x6" or so and extremely rare!?! Not exactly the thing to fit 10,000 gold coins into unless they are very tiny!?!
Brass hinges and lockplate would give a different signal than gold, so you'd be looking for a mixed signal in the scenario you mentioned. But like I said before, that number of coins wouldn't fit in a space 4"x4"x6" anyway.
The only other "Ottoman Box" I've heard of is a storage-type footstool (or "ottoman")..... but that's not the kind you bury treasure in either....
My History degree is with a dual specialty, one of which is Medieval Europe, and although the 16th century is pretty much the end of the Middle Ages I've never heard of the "ten thousand gold coins/Ottoman Box buried between 3' and 6' deep" legend.......
Very interesting!!
But I'm still confused about this. Can you illuminate any further?

Thank you Cybercop, with full respect to your History degree is with a dual specialty you need to read more about Ottoman army during the first world war, and the box dimensions 8"x8"x12" not 4"x4"x6" and the coins are only 7grm so it fit very will, so please don’t be confused about it, any way do not want to argue about it, I just need to know if there is a good MD that can detect easily such box made of wood and iron full of gold coins.

No problem. Didn't study WW1 in the 'sandbox' extensively, as I said, the only foreign Ottoman Box I've heard of was as described. Other than the Balkan conflicts at the beginning, the battle at Megiddo and that the Ottoman Empire (part of the Central Powers..... our 'enemies') was pretty much decimated by WW1, I don't know too much. That's why I asked about "illumination".
I know where the Ottoman Empire fought during WW1, but it covers a LOT of territory from 1914 to the the treaty at Sevres in 1920 (and then again at Lausanne in 1923).
Since 10,000 coins couldn't fit in the "Ottoman Box" of antiquity I was familiar with, and I never heard of a "10,000 coins/Ottoman box" legend, I was hoping you could enlighten us further about the circumstances. Treasure stories ARE very interesting................
Are they Ottoman coins? The 100 kurush weighs close to 7 grams..... well, a little more usually. 10,000 coins at 7 grams each would weigh something like...... over 160 lbs!? That's a HEAVY 8"x8"x12" box.
I just wondered what the coins dimensions are.

 

[Keppy]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

There is a Whites TM 808 2 box detector and a fisher Gemini 3 .. two box detector on Ebay and they both say they will get down to 20 feet and deeper and there is a garrett 2 box detector on ebay and it also is to get to 20 feet That is about the cheapest why to go a good used 2 box...........

 

[tertiaryjim]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

The TM808 is good at about 5 ft if the target is the size of a five gallon bucket. At 20 ft you are looking for a voltzwagen size target.Jim

 

[stefen]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

* * chortle * *

You realize that a singular 'chortle' is not acceptable...always must end with an 's'

I have a full box of s'es if you want to borrow some...

 

[lastleg]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Yes, Stefan, I did realize later that I should have put an "s" on but the regulars
like you understood and maybe got a * * chortle * * as did I.

 

[ivan salis]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

would a **chuckle** do as well as a **chortle**--- in this case?

 

[lastleg]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

I don't recall 'Yammy' ever using that retort.

 

[cybercop106]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

I apologize.....
10000 gold coins x 7 grams per coin = 70000 grams = about 154.3 lbs............... NOT "over 160 lbs".

I got caught up in trying to figure out what the coins were and didn't actually do the math.............

Still pretty heavy though.

Anyway, this treasure story wouldn't have anything to do with the Turkish troop train reportedly captured by the 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade in Barada Gorge near Damascus in late September of 1918 would it?!

 

[stefen]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

would a **chuckle** do as well as a **chortle**--- in this case?

I suspect that they are interchangeable...with a chuckle being of english derivation whereas a chortle might be germanic or slavic...

 

[Frank1960]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

These 10,000 gold coins...are they in the Philippines?

No my dear they are not the Philippines, they are in Middle east, but it is worth the trip

Middle east...somewhere around Tennessee?

 

[cybercop106]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Come on guys....... don't run garfield off. I'd really like to hear the "story"!
I'd like to give him however much 'rope' he needs ..............

 

[lastleg]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

I hope that Gargield knows I was not chortling at his post. It was his response
to the "elf" that made my day.

 

[garfield]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Well, you have got the marketing down........

well, you should not trade ....

 

[garfield]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Come on guys....... don't run garfield off. I'd really like to hear the "story"!
I'd like to give him however much 'rope' he needs ..............

thank you Cybercop,
what kind of 'rope' you give me I will send you the full story, but first some guys should stop making fun of it , If some find it funny, for me it is real treasure, and they may have to read more about the retreating Ottoman Army in 1918.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Re: 10,000 gold coins

Come on guys....... don't run garfield off. I'd really like to hear the "story"!
I'd like to give him however much 'rope' he needs ..............

thank you Cybercop,
what kind of 'rope' you give me I will send you the full story, but first some guys should stop making fun of it , If some find it funny, for me it is real treasure, and they may have to read more about the retreating Ottoman Army in 1918.

Please post your story. Ignore the egg heads.