Outrageous coin spill... 1 silver dollar, 2 different silver quarters, and more!

[SpencerK]

So I detected my jobsite for about the Nth time and managed to find a kind of outrageous coin spill on a tiny patch of grass between the sidewalk and the curb. I got a signal by a tree I have detected before but didn't want to try and dig up before because I didn't have the right tools to get under the roots and pinpoint the signal.

I said to heck with it and dug. I had to go between a drainage pipe and roots of the tree to get to the signal. I found 5 coins all scattered about near 9" deep. The first coin I pulled was the 1936 Indian head nickel, then a 1914 wheat penny. Then about 3-5" deeper I pulled my first 1923 freedom dollar, my first standing liberty quarter, and a 1948 silver.

In two days I have found 9 silver coins caually detecting random tiny patches of dirt. This time was in the little holmby area of los angeles near UCLA (an area with a lot of pre 1930's homes).

So here is my shocking diverse coin spill.





And this is where I found my coin



What a precarious place to find buried trasure!

 

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[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on that awesome spill, you checked many off the bucket list. Buffalos in Ohio don't come out as clean as yours.

 

[SpencerK]

I cleaned them up as best as I could here on post. I work executive protection and my clients are out of town so I am just sitting here in the truck with time on my hands lol. Just washed with a bottle of water and rubbed with a rag. The silver peace dollar is nasty on one side still. I almost have all the gunk off.

And yeah I realized today that I killed a lot of things in my detecting bucket list... Lol. Need to fill it up with more now.

I really love the standing livery quarter and the peace dollar. I might mount them to the box I've been building first year of detecting finds.

 

[Old Pueblo]

I cleaned them up as best as I could here on post. I work executive protection and my clients are out of town so I am just sitting here in the truck with time on my hands lol. Just washed with a bottle of water and rubbed with a rag. The silver peace dollar is nasty on one side still. I almost have all the gunk off.

And yeah I realized today that I killed a lot of things in my detecting bucket list... Lol. Need to fill it up with more now.

I really love the standing livery quarter and the peace dollar. I might mount them to the box I've been building first year of detecting finds.

Nice finds, but dont scrub them too hard!

 

[SpencerK]

Using a piece of a cut up t-shirt. Super soft and I'm using a light touch. Cleaned up the penny perfectly along with the nickel. The only thing that needs help is the silver dollar.

 

[sgtled3533]

I've never seen a buffalo nickel, (or any nickel for that matter) come outta the ground looking like that. Maybe someone just dropped em there last week...

 

[washingtonian]

Congrats. Awesome spill!!

 

[SpencerK]

It took some elbow grease. And the soil under the roots was unusually soft I'm thinking the soil it sat in has something to do with it.

It did not come out looking that good. It had a layer if crust on it

 

[JeffInMass]

That's about as varied and awesome a mix of coins I've ever seen in a spill- Congrats on a great find!

-- Jeff --

 

[trapperart]

Congrats that's one heck of a nice bunch of coins

 

[sprailroad]

SpencerK, If the silver coins are NOT key date coins, but instead nice keepers, (OF which they ARE), try baking soda and water mix, like a toothpaste, stick them in there for awhile, then you can rub them with your fingers under running water, they should come out looking really nice. By the way, 9" deep with roots, lots of effort, and this time with really GREAT results.

 

[A2coins]

Great finds some bucket listers a whole batch of different ones sweeeeet

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on all of the great coins. I have had very good luck hunting those small unnoticed patches of dirt, simply because every one else passes them up.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Super nice find. Now you're gonna expect that every time you go out. Which is a good thing. Jealous, here.

 

[Andy0820]

What an auspicious find!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice coin spill find!

 

[SpencerK]

I'm still in disbelief. My client was even more shocked. But mostly because his dog apparently takes its dumps and leaks on the tree I was digging around..

I should probably wash my hands again for good measure LOL

 

[Davers]

Cool finds.
&
A Cool job you have imo.

 

[SpencerK]

Cool finds.
&
A Cool job you have imo.

Honestly the job gets boring and the pay isn't the best but it does give me time to work on my own stuff on the clock. Sometimes I do some gunsmithing work to my rock island 1911, sometimes I do woodworking, when my clients are gone or I don't need to be super alert I can metal detect, and sometimes I deal with protests. I never know what my day is going to be like.

But I have found my peace dollar, and a bunch of my other silver coins, in this tiny patch of grass (along with this most recent coin spill and about $40 in clad quarters... The other patches in the area only had target or two each...)



And I just hit it with my minelab go find 60 about 10 minutes ago (i've only ever hunted here with my bounty hunter TIV, the minelab came in the mail this morning) and I marked off 6 more targets that I haven't found before even though I've detected the exact spots I marked off a bunch of times. And the ensitivity is only 3 out of 5. Hopefully I'll have time to dig them tonight...

 

[trdking]

Why is it that lost coins migrate to tree roots? Something I have never figured out.