THE MOTHER LODE! People who hate pocket change

[piggman1]

As I was driving down the road the other day, I saw where they were tearing down 2 houses that I know have been there for at least 40 years. I contacted the owner and got permission to hunt the property. I went there the next evening to start the search and play around with my new Eagle Spectrum. The first place I started to look was the driveway to the house that was still standing. The drive consisted of pea gravel on caliche. I fired up the detector, lowered the coil to the ground to ground balance and found it wouldn't take. After a short search, I finally found an area where I could get it to balance. I started to swing the detector and it went crazy. It was banging everywhere, in fact, I thought something was wrong with the detector. This driveway is only about 10' X 35'. It sounded like it was solid metal. I started to dig and found that all of the signals were coins. I WAS IN DETECTORIST HEAVEN! I hunted for about an hour and a half and came up with about 170 coins, and didn't even come near covering 1/2 the drive. I went back today and worked about 1/2 a day, and still have not finished with the drive, much less start the yard. My total coins for today was 265, for a total of over 400 coins. All clad except 1 wheat cent. These people must have hated pocket change! Anyway, I'll be going back for awhile, hopefully starting the yard tomorrow. I am totally amazed, any signal you get here, you dig. The most amazing part was I only dug 8 pull tabs and a couple of the old soda pop caps so far. This is the place you dream of. Here is a picture of my finds so far. I will post more as the finds increase.

 

[Parkit]

Yeeha! There should be silver somewhere around there, but even if there isn't that's quite a haul. Congratulatons and good luck with the rest of the place!

Steve

 

[piggman1]

Went back again today for a couple of hours. Didn't stay long, started to get too sore and tired. This is the haul, another 68 coins and a long way to go. Geology pick worked great on the caliche.

 

[piggman1]

It wasn't raining this morning, so I headed over to the house I've been doing. The ground was too wet to do anything in the yards, sooooo, I hit the driveway one more time. This driveway tatally blows me away! I found 45 pennies, 5 dimes, and 6 nickels for a total of 56 more coins. This brings the total coins found in and around the driveway to 614. The count is 425 pennies, 38 nickels, 103 dimes, and 48 quarters. Unbelievable! Now, when the ground dries up alittle more, I am headed for the back yard. I have taken some pictures of this place and what I found today. Hopefully the rain is over.

 

[KS_Mike]

Nice haul but you are doing it all wrong ...

Go get some 2x4s - 2 of them 3' long and 2 4' long. Nail them together forming a rectangle. Then go get some wire mesh - a box mesh as big as you can get without dimes falling through - you want the mesh in a sheet 3 X 4. Then nail it to your 2x4 box.

Then go get the blue tractor and put the bucket down and back up ... this will help break the top of the ground up. Then put the bucket down and get a load of dirt and then pour thorugh mesh.

You could probably get the driveway done in a couple of hours, save your knees and digging tools.

Then again ... using a detector is a lot more fun!!!

 

[treasuresdownunder]

Pocket change helps pay for the batteries good job
treasures down under