Looking to hire, rent, buy detector - lost a little gold

[texstechfan]

Hello all... I am not a detector user and I need some help.
Located on one of my fathers farms south of Lubbock, TX is an old burned down farm house.
My dad is about to have a bulldozer bury the remains of the the old house to clean the place up. Well, I am stalling him just long enough to find someone with, rent, or maybe even buy a detector. When the place burned down it was still furnished as if no one had moved out and that includes, well lets just say a certain amount of gold coin. I have been told to the dollar exactly how much should be there.

I knew the folks that lived there and called it home but they passed away and left it to their children many years ago. We rented the farm then recently purchased it from their only remaining son. The son told my dad awhile back that their had been a "considerable amount of gold coin" in there when it burned. The son is not strapped for cash and was more mournful of the books that burned than the coins (and he is real lazy...rich, well read, and lazy).

Anyway, when my dad goes to the trouble of borrowing a detector I know this is for real. He is a farmer and has never picked up a detector in his life. He swept the site a little with the detector but cannot discriminate between the chicken wire from the stucco walls or the gillion nails. Dont know what he borrowed only that it didn't work for him. We could have been hunting this site out for years but now its getting urgent because my pa has decided to bury it gold found or not.

Well, I would like to find and at least look for myself.

So here I am.
Is there anyone or does anyone know of anyone around my location that has the correct type of detector to do this type of job? I am sure we could work something out.
Is there anyone out there or a store on the web that rents/leases detectors?
If no help is forthcoming what detector should I buy? If I find the coins I could pay for it easily.

Thanks folks....Look forward to any advice or help you can give.
Scott
Lubbock, TX

 

[Elson(La)]

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[Elson(La)]

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[texstechfan]

Yes I hear you. I would only buy or rent if it was the last straw. I have had a couple of md's in my life but none sophisticated enough to do this type of job.

Thats why I am here. Looking...... Believe me, if I knew who to talk to or ask around these parts I wouldn't be typing.
I did find a listing for a club here in Lubbock but the number was disconnected and the email address bounced.

Appreciate it....

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[deathwind1]

As A Last Resort You Could Put A Ad In The Paper For A Person With A Detector That Knows How To Use It To Come And Look And Go 50/50---Half Is A Lot Better Than None---I Would Not Let Over 2 People Look And You Would Have To Be On Site %100 Of The Time---If I Was Closer I Would Come And Look But I Am In Wa. State---Boy I Would Like The Chance To Find Just (1) Gold Coin As I Have Never Found Anyplace Where There Was That Good Of A Chance To Find One---HAY There Some Of Guys On The Forum That Are Close Enough To Make A Drive For The Chance---Why Don't Some Of Put Your Explorers And Whites Detectors In Your Truck And Head Out---You Wont Get A Chance Like This Again !

 

[Tom in Victoria]

well stashed. Look for evidence of a fireplace or hearth, perhaps a root cellar ? Good chance of an iron strongbox I'd say, possibly it may have been in the library. Local archives might yield a photo of house or a clue of a typical layout of a house of that time. I doubt the coins are scattered, again a strongbox or maybe fused into a clump of nearby lesser metals/debris. A two box detector could hit larger items at considerable depth. Well, its been fun speculating ...good luck !

 

[texstechfan]

Well it's not that romantic. My dad told me that the son told him that the coins were located in the kitchen. I do not know how they were encased and I am pretty sure he is currently out of the country to ask. Man, that is a big mistake on my part. I cant believe I didn't think to ask that. Maybe my dad knows more than I.
I do know where the kitchen was and its location in the rubble.

This was a hot fire started by a short at the elec. meter and it was then fueled by propane. Everything burned quite well. I was on the tractor farming the place and saw the fire and called it into the local VFD (15 miles away). This was around 1994 maybe. Been sitting there undisturbed every since. The son had moved to another home years earlier and his parents had passed maybe 10 yrs prior to that but everything (furnishings/appliances) were pretty much still in the house.

I think, but I don't know for sure but they may have been in some type of coin collecting type display binders/pkg's. The old man kept everything. These people never threw anything away. Stacks of newspapers, magazines, books. When I was teenager I remember seeing all of this and also coins in coffee cans the one and only time I was ever in the home. Hell they may have been in a paper sack. There may be other coins and I assume that there probably are. I don't know how many gold coins there were either. I am pretty sure the gold coins were not clad but others probably know more about that than I. I have never heard the type. What has peaked my interest is the son stated the value of the gold coins to be several K. Don't know if that was then value or now value.

***I know this is a big question but what detector would anyone recommend that would discriminate enough between all the ferrous material and precious metals? Probably wont be very deep maybe 6" max but I am guessing. Now I am talking a cheaper model like maybe an Ace 250 price or less and probably with a small coil. I would not mind having a decent detector anyway after reading this forum. There are several sites around I would like to check out. I don't have the time now to dedicate studying all the models and reading reviews. New or used wouldn't care if it worked.

Thanks for the help and advice. Its snowing here now in Lubbock but I plan on trecking down to the place this week to look around. The clock is ticking as the people will be there to bury the site very soon. I am pleading with dad to wait.