How Many coins would you expect to be lost in the yard of a 100 year old house?

[allen]

id check around the old sidewalk or
a rockwall where kids would play at.

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

Re: How Many coins would you expect to be lost in the yard of a 100 year old hou

i live in a farmhouse built in 1830s... so far i have found
2 wheats
4 memorials
1 quarter
1 v nickel
4 jefferson nickels...
but i know i need to do things differently, (like gridding off the areas i hunt instead of just wandering around aimlessly)

 

[Eu_citzen]

I have hunted a yard, of a house built in the mid 1950s, and found well over 100 coins. (Obviously a house occupied by a rambumcuous bunch of kids sometime back in the 1960s or whatever). And then I have hunted house yards that date to the turn of the century, and found perhaps 3 coins. In these example cases, I knew for various reasons, as you specify, they had "never been hunted before". And in each case, were undisturbed (not re-turfed, not filled, etc....) So your question is just impossible to answer. It depends on the type people who lived there. Some type people just don't "lounge and play" on their yards. Others do.

I second that, there is no rule of thumb.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

100 years old, but only 5 coins in the first 25 yrs. maybe 10 in the next 25 yrs. maybe 100 in the last 25 yrs. It's all relative to the times. A cent was like gold during the depression, but kids throw them away nowadays like it was a booger stuck to their finger. My son brings home change everyday that kids throw around at school. (I taught him well)

 

[lastleg]

I used to hunt vacant lots and discovered that the old
driveways without concrete in the middle were good for
rings and silver. The people shopped for groceries weekly
and as they were unloading sacks from the trunk goodies
fell between the cement strips. No sound if it landed in
the grass.

lastleg