Ed Steinhoff
Active member
I only had about two hours to hunt today so took a quick trip to a local sledding hill in the foothills. I've hit this spot hard for a couple of years. Its actually where I really started learning my machine, so good targets are getting hard to find. Found a couple of pennies and was running out of time when I got a jumpy signal in a shallow gully. It jumped from .25 to .10 and back but repeated well enough to be worth a dig. I turned up a quarter at about 3" and thought that was it. After filling my hole back in. (yes even in the mountains on a sled hill I fill my holes) I rechecked and got a dime signal at 2". turned the fresh dirt over and found the dime. Checked the hole again and I'm still getting a quarter signal,pulled two more quarters from the hole. wow! I thought a 3 quarter and a dime spill, cool! rechecked and I'm still getting a quarter signal. Got down to business with my pinpointer a digger and from 4" to 8" pulled out 38 more quarters! most were stacked on top of each other. The oldest was a 1965 with assorted 70's and 80's with the newest (several) being 1994. The 1994's appear to by almost uncirculated with crisp details. My conclusion is someone had a dime, a quarter, and a $10.00 quarter roll in their pocket when they busted their fanny on the sledding hill in the winter of 1994. The lessons relearned were, always dig all repeatable signals and always recheck your holes! don't forget to fill them! By the way, carefully pulling that quantity of coins out of the same hole was a big thrill in itself, hard to dig and happy dance at the same time while standing/kneeling on a steep sidehill. HH Edinco.