Most coins found in one hole?

[Ricardo_NY1]

I've seen cases of people finding hundreds or more coins out of one hole in metal detecting stories, but I'm also sure those are far and in between. What's the most coins you've found out of one hole? In my short two months of MD'ing, I ran across a hole with 5 clad dimes, they were all in a little bunch. That is my most coins in a hole so far. What is yours?

 

[srcdco]

The first day I ever went out with a metal detector (March 6, 1977), I found a small cache of 89 wheat cents and a 1941 Mercury dime. It was buried near our garage sometime in the late 1950's. I've been hooked ever since...

Scott

 

[Monty]

I had an experience much like PBK. I pulled up to a small but kinda' hidden park and stepped out of my truck onto the grass. While I was setting up my detector I started getting coin signals right beside my truck. Before I was finished I had several quarters, dimes and nickels, all clad and either right on the surface or slightly covered by grass and leaves. Forgot how much it came to but it was several dollars. Monty

 

[Natman]

Six or seven years ago I checked a friend of mine's yard before he moved..there was an old sidewalk in the yard that came off the back patio that ended anout 12 feet into the yard. At the end of that sidewalk were pennies..LOTS of them. By the time I quit getting signals I had close to $5 in pennies. I put them all in a mason jar and gave them to my friend..he said one of his daughters must have buried them when they were little, but neither one of them remembered doing it

Nat

 

[TXPIRATE]

About 5 years ago I was trying out a used Sovering and found 6 buffloes nickles in one hole. there were 5 kids standing around watching me I gave them each one and found were one had lost theres on the way home. that was a good day.

 

[treasurejack]

Can't really say, but I've found several areas over the years where coins seem to have been left or spilled in one spot, usually clad stuff though. However, I was hunting a beach area two years ago with a friend and on a small grassy knoll above the sand I found seven rings in one hole. I figure they must have removed them before swimming and somehow forgot about them when they left. 2 mens, 5 ladies, but nothing to brag about as none of them were gold.

 

[camb1]

273 wheats in a bag. Found in a plowed field. There was an auction in that location a year before, so it may have been lost at that time.

 

[emesis]

24 quarters at a camp ground. Possible casino winnings lost in a drunken stupor.

 

[gold fish]

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, back when I was a kid they did a "town picnic". Every year they would take a big pile of sawdust and mix a bunch of coins into it. Well, this fall, I was worried about getting skunked(nothing for nearly 4 hours) so I stopped by the park they do the picnic at. I got about $8 in clad. On one flip of the sawdust I got 3 dimes, 4 pennies, 1 nickel. So far the coolest multiple hole was Jan 1st this year, an 1868 and an 1893 IH penny, same hole.

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

It seems like most of the time I go out if I hunt for a few hours i always run across at least one coin spill with my DFX. They usually run from 4 to just recently 16 in one hole. The value of the 16 coins was around $1.47. DFX-Gregg

 

[Ken/CO]

A canvas bag containing 45 Mexican pesos inside the wall of an old shack.

 

[Jack(IN)]

First year with the Explorer...

Had witnesses both times, 54 coins is mt high(46 wheats, 1 Buffalo Nickel, 1 clad Jefferson, 2 War Nickels, 3 Mercs, and 1 Silver Roosie). Maybe a month later found a roll of wheats/Indians(37 wheats all 1919, 1920 and 13 Indians all 1907).

 

[partenr]

I found 3 dimes in one hole and 10 pennies in a 1-foot radius yesterday. Can you tell I haven't been MDing long?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

10 clad quarters in a neat stack just below the surface at a park. No sign of a paper roll, but just as nice as if someone placed them there on purpose.

 

[goldencoin]

Well my best find was 2.48, i think, with 1 and a half toy cars in the same hole. It was amazing, they were all a different depths and i would cut a slice of earth and it was full of coins....was sooooo happy

Also, i found 150+ bullet cases in the same hole....and i still didn't get em all

HH
-GC

 

[Mike Silver -gold]

A few years ago I got a huge signal in a 4' radius. This is a heavly hunted park. I passed up this singnal a few times myself. I dug up the outer edge and found a silver quater. I figure 2 guys had to have been in a fight. Every one was silver. I got $6.75 in face silver. Nothing of great value but some halfs and quaters and dimes. Love this hobby.

 

[Kas]

140 mercs in a pint mason jar next to a wooden clothsline post.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,70754.0.html

HH Ken

 

[THEDUKE]

I found about 75 or 80 coins in one hole it was at the end of a storm drain they were all in the dirt at the end from 1 inch to 8 inches in the dirt, sand , mud all together, lot of mercury dimes and old quarters, some buffalo nickel too.

 

[goldgrubber]

Found a whole roll of pennies, mostly copper, the paper was rotted away.

 

[cdhjr]

Last year I found over 800 clad coins in one hole. The coins were in wrapped up in what was left of paper coin rolls. This is by far the greatest number of coins I have found in a single hole. I have included a link to the original post. Check it out!

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,52061.0.html

Peace,
Chuck

 

[Slabman]

In the early 80's, we took a trip to the west coast, and stopped at the Grand Canyon on the way. We were taking a little break at one of those stops that has the binocular stands to look into the canyon. At that time it was 10 cents for the use of the binocular. I noticed that the ground below the binoculars was dirt, and not concrete. Grabbed the detector, and after clearing out a thick layer of pull tabs, I found 41 merc's and 50 silver rosies within about a 4' X 4' square. My knees hurt after that one! It was actually kind of strange... 1 clad dime and the rest was silver.
HH Slabman