Awhile back there was a discussion on this forum, also on the Tesoro and Garrett forums, concerning whether more coins were found in the front or back yards of old homes or homesites. I've hunted a lot of old homesites and found more coins by far in the front yards than in the back. The homesite I've hunted the last two days is no exception. In three trips, two of them rain shortened, totaling less than three hours I found 16 wheaties, three silver dimes, 12 memorial pennies, two nickels and a clad dime for a total of 34 coins, plus some interesting other stuff including a bent silver ring, a "Bronco" toy gun and two thimbles, one of which has "Sweet Rose Flower" on it and the other has what looks like ceramic with paintings on it. The ring, silver dimes and 15 of the wheaties were found in what was the front yard, as were the 1965 clad dime, a 1952 nickel and 4 early memorial pennies. The rest of the memorial pennies, the other nickel. a 1973, and a 1950 wheatie were found in what was the west side yard and back yard. The coins date from a 1911 wheatie for the oldest to the 1973 nickel for the newest.
That's the most coins I've found at a homesite, and almost all of the older coins being in the front yard illustrates what some of us said about people not using the back yards until around the mid 1950's. All the coins, and other stuff, was found with an A & S Special Discovery Treasure Baron (same detector as the first Kellyco Cobra II model) with external pots added for ground balance and threshold and a 5.5 inch coil. Deepest coin was the 1960 Roosevelt silver dime at 7 inches, give or take a smidgen. By the way, if anyone counts the coins and comes up short it's because I left 5 memorial pennies out
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That's the most coins I've found at a homesite, and almost all of the older coins being in the front yard illustrates what some of us said about people not using the back yards until around the mid 1950's. All the coins, and other stuff, was found with an A & S Special Discovery Treasure Baron (same detector as the first Kellyco Cobra II model) with external pots added for ground balance and threshold and a 5.5 inch coil. Deepest coin was the 1960 Roosevelt silver dime at 7 inches, give or take a smidgen. By the way, if anyone counts the coins and comes up short it's because I left 5 memorial pennies out
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. That was a common practice in rural areas here until the mid 1950's, and some carriers would still take coins until the early 1960's.