How can so many coins come from one yard...and there are still more...9 silver!

[mustang8780]

I have been hunting a yard in Camden Arkansas, initially I was still learning my GTI 2500 and just running in the "Discriminate Zero"setting..I found a ton of clad and 1 merc and 1 silver rosey. After reading the forum for a bit I decided to try all metal...silver decided to pop up after that and that was yesterday...so now I have to go back over the whole yard again! I popped up 3 Mercs within 15 mins of trying out All-Metal mode...

 

[chukers]

Re: How can so many coins come from one yard...and there are still more!

Wow, that is a lot of coins for one yard... How big is this yard?

 

[mustang8780]

Re: How can so many coins come from one yard...and there are still more!

its really not that big..maybe .25 acres...when I first started detecting there I couldnt swing my coil without getting a coin...of course it was almost always clad but...

House was built in 1926

 

[dave5339]

It's real easy to explain all the coins in the yard. One word... Kids.

When my wife and I got our first detector we played with it in the back yard, place was loaded with spare change. Between our three and the family that lived here before we cleaned up. Our kids wanted "their" money back.. I told them had they put their change in their banks as instructed it would not have been lost.

Semper Fi

 

[Goes4ever]

that was an amazing yard, go over it in multible directions and you will find stuff you missed. Best yard I ever had was one me and 2 buddies did last summer, I alone got 15 silver there, and 10 more was found by them, and between the 3 of us we pulled 100 wheats as well.

 

[viciousphil]

There's just something about random trinkets + harmonica reeds that seems to scream out, "Hey, a boy scout was here."

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice pile of loot MR TUFF

 

[waterfalljay]

Good Grief! Even a 2 gram piece of silver bullion!

 

[mustang8780]

Its my honey hole...I imagine that the tenants of past had some sort of mental problem in which they mistook change for bird food and every morning they "fed the birds" so to speak. The change is just every where, its ridiculous.