The Mother Lode!!! People who hate pocket change

piggman1 · Apr 28, 2007

As I was driving down the road the other day, I saw where they were tearing down 2 houses that I know have been there for at least 40 years. I contacted the owner and got permission to hunt the property. I went there the next evening to start the search and play around with my new Eagle Spectrum. The first place I started to look was the driveway to the house that was still standing. The drive consisted of pea gravel on caliche. I fired up the detector, lowered the coil to the ground to ground balance and found it wouldn't take. After a short search, I finally found an area where I could get it to balance. I started to swing the detector and it went crazy. It was banging everywhere, in fact, I thought something was wrong with the detector. This driveway is only about 10' X 35'. It sounded like it was solid metal. I started to dig and found that all of the signals were coins. I WAS IN DETECTORIST HEAVEN! I hunted for about an hour and a half and came up with about 170 coins, and didn't even come near covering 1/2 the drive. I went back today and worked about 1/2 a day, and still have not finished with the drive, much less start the yard. My total coins for today was 265, for a total of over 400 coins. All clad except 1 wheat cent. These people must have hated pocket change! Anyway, I'll be going back for awhile, hopefully starting the yard tomorrow. I am totally amazed, any signal you get here, you dig. The most amazing part was I only dug 8 pull tabs and a couple of the old soda pop caps so far. This is the place you dream of. Here is a picture of my finds so far. I will post more as the finds increase.

Jack(IN) · Apr 28, 2007

Clad heaven...

I have no problem picking up pocket change, love my deep silver but your in a great place and not having to dig thru a ton of junk for your clad. I hope you pull 1000+ from there!! Good Luck!!

Smokey · Apr 28, 2007

MAN THAT'S A BUNCH OF COINS!!!

55TXBANDIT

Stormtrooper154 · Apr 28, 2007

Clad stacker heven LOL

Rumblebelly · Apr 28, 2007

great pile-o-coins! Its alot of fun doing that type of finding! Great job getting permission to hunt there. Clean it out!

Rumblebelly

Nana40 · Apr 28, 2007

Dang! A bunch'a money!

Looks like you found a great spot to hunt!!!

Congrats! Nana

Salvager · Apr 28, 2007

Thtas gotta make you feel good!

Have fun,
Salvager

Yarrum · Apr 28, 2007

Good luck hope you pull out a heap more.

Boobydoo · Apr 28, 2007

Wow, now that's really cool. Great place to hunt, WTG!! Congrats!
I hope they hated gold and silver too! Good luck!

SMiles!
BDoo

nealb · Apr 28, 2007

Man, that's one heck of a load there. Lot's of luck with the rest of the location

ceejay64 · Apr 28, 2007

Holy Cow...or should I say "holey pockets..."
Nice location!

vw · Apr 28, 2007

piggman1 said:
As I was driving down the road the other day, I saw where they were tearing down 2 houses that I know have been there for at least 40 years. I contacted the owner and got permission to hunt the property. I went there the next evening to start the search and play around with my new Eagle Spectrum. The first place I started to look was the driveway to the house that was still standing. The drive consisted of pea gravel on caliche. I fired up the detector, lowered the coil to the ground to ground balance and found it wouldn't take. After a short search, I finally found an area where I could get it to balance. I started to swing the detector and it went crazy. It was banging everywhere, in fact, I thought something was wrong with the detector. This driveway is only about 10' X 35'. It sounded like it was solid metal. I started to dig and found that all of the signals were coins. I WAS IN DETECTORIST HEAVEN! I hunted for about an hour and a half and came up with about 170 coins, and didn't even come near covering 1/2 the drive. I went back today and worked about 1/2 a day, and still have not finished with the drive, much less start the yard. My total coins for today was 265, for a total of over 400 coins. All clad except 1 wheat cent. These people must have hated pocket change! Anyway, I'll be going back for awhile, hopefully starting the yard tomorrow. I am totally amazed, any signal you get here, you dig. The most amazing part was I only dug 8 pull tabs and a couple of the old soda pop caps so far. This is the place you dream of. Here is a picture of my finds so far. I will post more as the finds increase.

Wow I see plenty of battery money. Good going.

coolcash2004 · Apr 28, 2007

CLAD = SILVER!

Nice job!

-CC

piggman1 · Apr 28, 2007

Re: The Mother Lode!!! Another couple of hours today

Went back again today for a couple of hours. Didn't stay long, started to get too sore and tired. This is the haul, another 68 coins and a long way to go. Geology pick worked great on the caliche.

TreasureTales · Apr 28, 2007

Piggman1, welcome to TreasureNet. It's great to have you join us!!!

You certainly do have a coinshooter's paradise there, and I echo the congratulations for getting permission before working the property. WTG. You gotta figure that if there is a wheat cent, there could very well be silver. Do you know the age of the houses that are being torn down? That would help you determine if silver is possible.

Also, see if you can check the house out itself for caches. You never know!!

Good luck and keep those photos coming.

Michiganne · Apr 28, 2007

Quite the haul Piggman! Looks like you latched onto a mighty fine spot. Good luck with the rest of the hunt.

Keep digging!

Prober · Apr 28, 2007

Great spot! It may take you a couple weeks to clean it out...good luck in the yard.

Skrimpy · Apr 29, 2007

Someone was running a stat for a while about clad and frequencies etc. You would really add to the sampling. I wonder what the heck went on there that there is so much clad all over the place? Maybe they threw a lot of parties. What kind of face value are you looking at already? It would be something if he got a frequency of appearance for each coin and could guess at your face value. Something like, q's appear on average 25% of the time with a 99% confidence interval. So if you get on here and say "I found 1000 coins", all we have to do is guess at 250 quarters and be dead on. Image if they were all quarters! That's $250 bucks with minimal work. Easy pickings there I'd say.