First hunt in Korea

[birdman]

A friend of mine took me to a look for some old coin sites in the hills of Korea. We had a blast and I was very pleased with the cibola here in the Korean soil. I was pulling coins deep up to 10 inches. I brought the Cibola instead of my Vaquero and was wondering if it could handle the soil here but it did fine. We found 31 coins in half a day of hunting .Dates ranging from the 1670s through WW2. We had a blast.

 

[pulltab]

sounds like fun

 

[tvr]

What sorts of materials are the various coins that you found made of?
Does sound like a fun hunt!
tvr

 

[birdman]

The WW2 era Japanese coins were aluminum ,the older Chinese and Korean coins were brass or bronze. This area was right next to a hiking trail and all the locals that passed could not believe that there were all these old coins there. I could not either.

 

[rmptr]

Wow!

That's GREAT Birdman!

What fun detecting someplace like Korea !

I like the old cash coins...
They made gazillions of them... it would be difficult to find one particularly valuable, I think. YMMV

Hope you find more great coins!
rmptr

 

[birdman]

About half of these coins are Chinese army issue from the 1700s and are pretty common. They say there are some worth some nice money but they are hard to come by. These are not worth much . I was told that the large ones could bring 10 dollars each but don't know if that's true. Sure were a thrill to dig.