Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

Strange lot full of big silver.

utmike

utmike

Well-known member
My daughter phoned in this morning about a huge lot where several older homes had been torn down and she had obtained permission for us on. Lisa and I hunted it with our friends Jeral (Sovereign) and Bill (X70) instead of an area we all planned to hit together. We arrived at the site and it just looked great. We all piled out and hunted it with everything we had. Everyone was pretty discouraged after about two hours with just a few Wheaties found between us. We agreed we had been beat to the punch on this one. Then it changed into the strangest hunt I have ever been on.

About the time we were ready to give up, Jeral pulled a 1964 Kennedy Half out of a muddy area in the center of the property and called us over to show his find. We all started working our way into the mud and immediately started getting silver halves! I got a Franklin, my first ever! Bill got one right after me, and Lisa followed it up with another 64 Kennedy. Jeral found an astonishing EIGHT silver halves , five Kennedys and three Franklin's. These coins were spread over an area about 100' x 100 and none was more than 3-4" deep. Lisa and I both got silver dimes in the scramble, mine a 1902 S barber and hers a 43 merc.

I am absolutely baffled as to how eleven silver halves could have been grouped like this. What a wild day!

Thanks for looking

HH
Mike
 
Sounds like a great hunt! Congrats on the silver half and the dime! Very nice finds for sure! Goos woek, Beale.
 
????????????????????????????
 
I'd bet someone forgot to retrieve the fruit jar (piggy bank) , before tearing down the building. I can't imagine digging one, then another, then another. That must have been a great feeling. Congrats to all of you. HH Randy
 
any broken glass from a Jar or something? That was probably a bit of cash back then even though the 60s is not that long ago!!!! lol.

the dime looks neat, nice to get early silver.....
 
Went back today with the X70 for a few hours. I thought I'd try the 18.75 elliptical to cover a little more area than the 6" DD I used yesterday. Ground balanced, noise cancelled, took two steps and hit a 1963 silver dime. A few minutes later, Jeral got another 64 Kennedy half which brings the silver half count to twelve. He also pulled a 188? Injun. Crazy site, coins from almost every decade but the 30's when most of the homes were supposedly built.

Lisa was on the back of the property with her Teknetics and got some cool finds including an old skeleton key and compact. On the way to where she was hunting, I got a solid 44 and dug this token. These aluminum tokens sure take a beating in the ground around here.

I think you guys are correct, the halves must have started out together and were dispersed in the scraping.

HH
Mike
 
Great Story and Coins!!!! Thanks!​
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top