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.

Huntin' 59er · Apr 29, 2007

Congrats! That's what you call "Happy Huntin"! Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

Huntin' 59er

ModernMiner · Apr 29, 2007

Piggman,
Fantastic job. Now that's a lot of digging. Welcome to TN.
-MM-

piggman1 · Apr 30, 2007

I went back yesterday for awhile and went over the small yard out front. My finds for the yard were less, but still not bad. It got to the point of not being able to bend over, and soreness in my legs and shoulders from the previous 2 days finally got the best of me. I still came away with 2 quarters, 10 dimes, 3 nickels, and 40 pennies, for a total of 55 coins. Before I left, I walked back over the driveway just for grins, and believe it or not, there are still signals everywhere. The problem was, my get up and go had got up and left already. I didn't dig a one. That's OK, I think they are reproducing as fast as I am removing them. I was glad to see it raining today, which gives me a day or two to rest before I attack it again. The back yard is where I really want to hit because I knew the kids who grew up there about 35 years ago, I just haven't been able to get away from this driveway.

Ridley · Apr 30, 2007

Very cool!

Keep us posted on the finds from that place and welcome to TN!

Ridley

Charlie P. (NY) · May 1, 2007

Go back after it rains and ther'll be more.

Congrats on the scatter cache.

SilverFox167 · May 1, 2007

PMan,
Sounds like those coins are reproducing like rabbitts.
What a honey of a hole.

Did you find any wheaties or any old coins yet. I know you have probably not had a chance to sort through them yet. I was just curious.

Hope the soreness goes quickly for you. Like it was said earlier after the rain you will probably find a heck of a whole lot more.

Great finds...keep at it.

paul1410 · May 1, 2007

Welcome to Tnet pm. You're going to enjoy yourself here.

Cool story, I can't wait to hear what else you find!

Thanks for posting.

piggman1 · May 2, 2007

It wasn't raining this morning, so I headed over to the house I've been doing. The ground was too wet to do anything in the yards, sooooo, I hit the driveway one more time. This driveway tatally blows me away! I found 45 pennies, 5 dimes, and 6 nickels for a total of 56 more coins. This brings the total coins found in and around the driveway to 614. The count is 425 pennies, 38 nickels, 103 dimes, and 48 quarters. Unbelievable! Now, when the ground dries up alittle more, I am headed for the back yard. I have taken some pictures of this place and what I found today. Hopefully the rain is over.