Old station finds part 2 !!

[Deepdiger60]

before it got dark i went back to that gas station site the heavy equipment had finish grading the dirt for the day about a foot and a half down pushing it up in piles at the end of the property the foundation was still there all heavy stone to make a very long storie short because iam still in shock what i found in 7 different holes all around 7 to 8 inches deep ill try maybe tomm. to give better details 1 hole gave up 5 half's another had inches apart 3 silver dollars the rest of the coins was found all near by those finds .i can not believe what i found !! tg that bull dozier operator did what he did or i never could of got that deep with my DFX i need to shake his hand tomm.? lol heres some pics i took, before i detected early this morning found a few good things i went to work then back to the same spot again just a 60 minutes before dark iam so tired now but iam still staring at these coins . Total finds today 14 silver 1 IH and a small gold high school 1959 pin 10k . I think just off the top of my head the 1886 O Morgan is a key date coin ? and i just love that 1893 Colombian Half , also a 1850 Seated half dime i almost missed it , it took 3 times to see it in my hand in the dirt lol . these finds all where found hear where the old pumps used to be i think it was a ESSO station before that iam not sure . STILL IN SHOCK !! HH Jim

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

awesome finds, and congrats, one funny thing I found a penny with a cross cut in it just like yours a few years ago while I was on vacation in Ga. thanks for sharing and hh

 

[Deepdiger60]

Is it possible that someone lost a coin collection?

That is possible sure but not recently seeing they where 7 to 8 inches deep after the plow took off a good foot or more , out here its always been a very old farm community back then people trusted coinage more then paper money a few old timers not that iam a spring chicken still have huge dollar coin collections they have showed me and a lot still dont trust banks its buried out in fields i bet ? A older farmer here told me a story once about how he cleared a field that wasn't used in many years his tractor plow unearthed a old 1 quart glass canning jar filled to the brim !! with silver dollars nothing before 1900 . HH Jim

 

[Aquila]

Congrats, very cool coins!

 

[jfx55]

large span on those dates and types

 

[vwayne1]

Weird. Those dollars came out of the ground, with the shiny sheen of an unc coin. You must have different dirt then most places.

 

[jerseyjack]

Great finds ! I looked up the price of gas in the 1920's, 18 cents a gallon, alot of money in those days.

 

[terpfan]

Great finds!! I have run a dozer for years and have "prepared" some pretty good hunting sites for myself over the years, but have never had one near that good.

One thing I've never heard anyone mention is the one condition under which a lot of coins were lost in the northern states. Back before these filling stations and parking areas were paved they were only dirt or gravel sure, but think about how difficult it was to find a coin dropped in the snow. I've dropped my key ring in deep snow before getting my car door unlocked and it's hard to find something big sometimes. By spring that coin is down in the mud or has been shovelled over to where the snow was piled up out of the way.

Great observation.

 

[Skrimpy]

Check this out. 950,000 minted.

http://www.pcgscoinguide.com/display_guidesubcat.chtml?guidecategoryid=45&end=here&category_description=Silver%20Commemoratives%20(1892-1954)&subcat_description=1892-1893%20Columbian%20Exposition%20Half%20Dollar&universeid=313&guidesubcategoryid=785

 

[Diggincoinz]

WOW!
They sure are nice no doubt. So just soaking them in dish detergent and water lifted off all that dirt even out of the nooks and cranny's of the coins?

You're fortunate, I've never seen a copper cent clean up like that other than with peroxide but then it turns black. If anything, I'd have to agree with assuming that they're a recent loss from someone, but then again you say they were deep.

Nice also that they're not really worn down and well used from circulation and all of them have nice full rims. Most of us are never so lucky!

Congrats!

 

[detectahead]

Congrats on an absolutely great day!!! Excitement like that doesn't come every day, WTG!!!

 

[{Sentinel}]

HMMMM

Nice coins either way

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

Check this out. 950,000 minted.

http://www.pcgscoinguide.com/display_guidesubcat.chtml?guidecategoryid=45&end=here&category_description=Silver%20Commemoratives%20(1892-1954)&subcat_description=1892-1893%20Columbian%20Exposition%20Half%20Dollar&universeid=313&guidesubcategoryid=785

There were only 950,000 minted for 1892 according to the link

1893 Issue: The Philadelphia Mint began production of 1893-dated Columbian Commemorative Halves on January 3 of that year. A grand total of 4,052,105 pieces were produced (including 2,105 coins for assay purposes), but sales were nowhere near the levels hoped for by government officials. The Mint destroyed all of the unsold coins. That amounted to 2,501,700 coins which were melted.

Still a neat coin

 

[golden silver]

Impressive

Golden Silver

 

[Swingit]

WOW

 

[Deepdiger60]

WOW!
They sure are nice no doubt. So just soaking them in dish detergent and water lifted off all that dirt even out of the nooks and cranny's of the coins?

You're fortunate, I've never seen a copper cent clean up like that other than with peroxide but then it turns black. If anything, I'd have to agree with assuming that they're a recent loss from someone, but then again you say they were deep.

Nice also that they're not really worn down and well used from circulation and all of them have nice full rims. Most of us are never so lucky!

Congrats!
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Hi Diggin So far all the silver coins out here i found look wonderful its got to be the soil most copper is not so lucky except for 2 IH,s i found not a green mark on them even shinny but the c3rd one was very green and not able to clean it very good i guess it depends here we are surrounded by salt water its always in the air i have a perfect example of silver in the ground a long time here i found this French coin 1760 in a just plowed field back in early June all i did was clean with water and mild soap ill attach a pic . Jim HH

 

[wingmaster]

Great silver haul there congrats.

 

[HCW]

Deepdiger60 . I summered in Mattituck from 1960's thru 1970's and lived there year round in the "80's. I live in Ma. now but come down to L.I. often . Would love to detect some of my old stomping grounds.

 

[Deepdiger60]

Deepdiger60 . I summered in Mattituck from 1960's thru 1970's and lived there year round in the "80's. I live in Ma. now but come down to L.I. often . Would love to detect some of my old stomping grounds.

Hi HWC did you detect back then in Mattituck ? thats the town i just found all those coins the old station between Handy Pantry and 4 Doors Down come on down sometime you can find me at the old A&P now Waldbaums , i have a token you might get a kick out of it might of been gold plated at one time its only 2004 but i bet you remember that farm ? i found at a old school yard not in use now in Peconic HH Jim

 

[johnnyi]

"ill try maybe tomm. to give better details"

Yes, it will be great to hear those better details. A group of well represented coins dating from all periods between mid-1800's up to 1944, coming out of the ground like this in five seperate holes, all dug at the same depth, and being in the vicintity of well travelled gas pumps is such an almost unheard of occurance that it deserves a whole article unto its own. In the meantime it might be very educational to learn how such coins can be so well preserved to the point of not bearing a single scratch.

Was the spot paved over? Was the ground soft and gravel-free enough so if the coins were "lost" they would not show signs of being tread upon as they sank down? Have locals been contacted to ask if the ground around the gas station was once a foot or more lower and then covered after 1944? (no, that wouldn't make sense because some of the coins would show scratches from being on the surface and walked or ridden over). Could they have been deposted in fill dirt? (no, that wouldn't make sense because they were all at the same depth). Could they have been intentionally buried? (I guess that wouldn't make sense unless someone were to dig five separate holes to bury them?)

Quite a mystery. Some more details might solve it (or they might not).

 

[Patrol]

A beautiful find! I used to go to Mattituck as a kid also. The Polish farm kids who threw 100# potato sacks around all day would love to into town to hassle the soft city kids like myself. Drinking age was 18 then and I got thrown out of the bar called the "Apple Tree" more than once.

The soil is very sandy on Long Island perhaps that is why they look so good.

Tom