Oddest hunt for me EVER.....10 silver!

[Goes4ever]

had the weirdest hunt ever tonite, hunted an old house and got a token and a wheat in the front, not much else and wandered around back to check around the clothes line. First signal was kinda bouncing around but dug it and it was 3-4 coins fused together, and one hole after another I continued to find coins that were either fused together or melted. Obviously there was some sort of fire, I will prob put them all in a tumbler because a lot of them I can’t tell what they are. Got several wheats that are recognizable, several buffalo nickels, barber dimes,Washington quarter, half of a barber quarter lol, several melted silver dimes.....over 40 coins and all are old lol. Looks like 10 silvers total. My buddy came back there and dug another dozen or so after I was already back there an hour. Everything was all within a 8x8 foot area....strange!!!! Gonna throw them in tumbler tomorrow to see what all the coppers and nickels are.

 

[bertman]

Those poor coins were subject to a very bad place... Sure looks like they were exposed to extreem heat...

Nice hunt though... Can't wait to see the results after tumbling...

 

[oneguy]

what a shame... hopefully you can salvage some? I've also run acrossed fire coins as everyone around here had many burn piles back in the day for burning trash.

 

[moonshine]

that's pretty crazy man.....very cool though....you think they got accidently thrown into a fire pit? if so there should have been a ton of iron in there too. was there a lot of junk in the area? burned plastic/glass in the holes?

 

[Tenspeed]

Fused or not that was still a great silver day!

 

[Goes4ever]

that's pretty crazy man.....very cool though....you think they got accidently thrown into a fire pit? if so there should have been a ton of iron in there too. was there a lot of junk in the area? burned plastic/glass in the holes?

TONS of iron, nails, LOTS of nails in every hole....thats why i still say a small outbuilding burnt, no trash or melted plastic, definately not a burn pit or trash pile, only thing there was nails and coins, other melted blobs but they appeared to be copper blobs

 

[NebTrac]

Weird for sure! Thanks for the pictures and congratulations on the silver.

NebTrac

 

[Goes4ever]

ran them in a tumbler for hours, even tried electrolysis....99% are toast....ended up with 46 coins total

25 wheats
5 buffalo
2 V's
4 mercs
2 barber dimes
1 washington quarter 1934
Half of a barber quarter
1/6th maybe of a half dollar....I am guessing because of the thickness and you can see reeded edges on chunk

and mystery 22 cent coin sandwich had:
buff on outside, wheat on other outside, inside consisted of mystery penny, mystery nickel, and mystery silver dime

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Now that's something different. Their junk coins now but still a cool find. something to put in your showcase.

 

[ChicagoJohn]

Great finds! Maybe coins was under fire pit?

 

[moonshine]

OK....id guess something really nasty must have burned that building down very hot and very quick! they must have had some kind of chemicals in there or something....they had to get out of there quick, or hopefully were never in there...(left their coins....lol)

I could very well be wrong (very easily) but I don't think plain wood can burn quite hot enough to melt silver (?)

that oddly seems like quite a bit of change also....I wonder if some of the coins were "regular" drops, and some were in the building when it burned.

 

[nge]

grandpa here........OMG! You found my "bank" I've been hiding my money in that chicken coop for years, don't tell grandma. Explanation for very hot fire. Grandma refused to shovel the manure (chicken crap) from there and it created methane.........Nge

 

[Sooper Dave]

What a crazy find!

 

[Prep1957]

Hey your not suppose to be hunting a historical site that is where the Lone Ranger made his silver bullets.I know I melted a few silver coins in my day when I was younger I made a Hurst shift knob out of silver coin once for a 1972 Torino wish I had both back.