I found the good stuff

Hey everyone, sorry I havent been as active on the forum in the last week or so. Just have been busy with work and the kids. My oldest celebrated his third birthday on Saturday. I cant believe how fast time flies by when you have little ones around the house. Anyways I was able to get out on Friday and found a find of a life time. Below is a how it went down

Last Friday I decided to take a half day off of work to do some detecting with a buddy. Another detecting buddy had tipped us off on a place to go check out, so we decided to meet there first. Well as luck would have it, there were construction workers on the scene working away, so we would need to find another spot. Luckily while I was driving to the first spot I saw another potential spot which was an empty lot. Honestly I usually don’t like hunting lots as they are usually pretty trashy with not much to show for it.

But since it was so close to the first spot we decided to check it out anyway. I hunted the first half hour or so with not much to show and then found what I thought was a token or silver quarter lying right on top of the ground. We must have wasted the next 10 or so minutes just trying to figure out what it was but it was pretty messed up.

So I kept on detecting and about 15 minutes later I hit what would usually be a find of the year for me. It hit like a half dollar on the E-Trac which to be honest I am really not used to seeing unless it is a deep sprinkler. Dug down about 4 inches to 5 inches and out popped a 1908 O Barber Half with a really worn Standing liberty quarter stuck to it. On the other side of the half there was a crescent shaped mark on it, so I had thought I had hit it with my shovel. It wasn’t till about 20 minutes later that I would learn that it wasn’t a shovel mark but where another coin had been stuck to it.

Well after this I continued on knowing that I would be happy if that was all this lot produced. I mean having a barber half and a standing liberty quarter as my first silvers of 2011 was a very nice present. So I continued on detecting till I hit another half dollar/ silver dollar signal that was a bigger then a coin but was really singing on the E-Trac. I dug out a shovel full of dirt and was met with an eye full of dirty half dollar sized coins at the bottom of the 6 to 7 inch hole.

I called my buddy over and he couldn’t believe it, I mean we had read about finds like this but never thought we would see one for ourselves. I spent the next 10 minutes expanding the hole until I had uncovered about 50 coins in various conditions with many coins stuck to each other. But the real treat was that I could see a silver dollar mixed in. After moving a little more dirt I found the top of an old large milk bottle which I am pretty sure is what had held the cache of coins.

My buddy and I decided to expand the hole and found that it looked to be the remnants of a trash pit and found lots of pieces of bottles, ceramic and glass. We spent the next hour or so digging out the pit and didn’t find any more coins except for 2 firsts for detecting buddy that were near where the initial cache was found.

It started to get dark so we called it a day, it wouldn’t be till I got home that I would really know the full extent of what I had found. After I got home I had laid out before me 40 silver half dollars, 13 silver quarters, a foreign coin, a wheatie and a cc mint silver dollar.

It took me the next two days to get the cleaned up. A lot of the coins still have a pink stain to them which I believe is from the dirt of the trash pit. If anyone has any ideas on how to remove the pink staining let me know.

Anyways the final tally is:
1890 CC Morgan Silver Dollar
17 Barber Half Dollars: 1898O, 1899O, 1903, 1906D, 1906S, 2X 1906O, 1908, 2X 1908O, 1908S, 1909, 1909S, 1911, 1911S, 2X 1912S, 1914S
23 Walking Liberty Half Dollars: 2x 1917S, 1918S, 1920, 1920D, 4X 1920S, 3 X 1927,2X 1927S, 3X 1928, 1928S,4X 1929S,
5 Barber Quarters: 1901, 1907S, 190:clapping:, 1912, 1916D
8 Standing Liberty Quarters: 6 no date, 192X, 1926
1917 Wheatie
And a 1916 Kopek Russian coin.

A couple of more coins were found by some other local detectorists. Hopefully they will swing by and post what they found.

Happy Hunting,
Wheresthegoodstuff
 

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Wow !!!!!!!!!!!! :peace: what a cache indeed, I only dream of ever finding something like that, a huge congrats on them finds thumbsup01 I'll bet you could send a story to one of the metal detecting magazines about that hunt and make some more bucks and well deserved notoriety. Just Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
:interesting: :shocked04: :shocked04: :shocked04: :drool: :drool: Awesome finds for sure <: All coins that are still on my wish list and you found a whole pile at once BIG TIME CONGRATS thumbsup01 thumbsup01 thumbsup01
 
Dude that is freaking AWESOME!!! :peace: :peace: :peace: :happydance01: :happydance01: :happydance01:
Wow you just dug what we all have been looking for!!
Way to go on a great looking cache.....wow :smitten: :smitten:
 
Simply amazing! :shocked04: Fantastic find, and truly the good stuff! I can not imagine how exciting this must have been. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Jack
 
Fantastic! A dream hunt! What are you doing home? Get back to that lot, check every square inch. There's more than likely another cache buried there. :peace:
 
SSSSWWWWEEEEEETTTTTTT!!!!! :peace: I hope you aren't having a contest against anyone here on who finds the most half dollars this year lol What a cache :clapping: And what a way to start the year off. Congrats on a great day. I take it you never made it back to the original site rofl That is fate right there buddy :yes:
 
What a rush that must have been! lol I probably would have still been out there with a miner's light digging away. lol That is one day you will always remember. thumbsup01 Sweet finds. Congrats!
 
I don't know how you contained yourself till you got home :confused:
I know I would've lost my train of thought after finding something like that ! :twirlingeyes: <: :yes: lol
Truly a find of a life time !!!
Now we know wheresthegoodstuff lol At least were it was lol
Outstanding !!
Glad you brought the camera along !!
[size=36pt]CONGRATS :grin:
 
:shocked04: :shocked04: :shocked04:

Thanks for taking us along on that hunt it was very enjoyable!! Thank goodness the construction workers were working at the other site that day. :yes:

Like you said, the first find of the Barber half and SLQ would have made my day, week and year... then you score even bigger. :peace:

I just keep telling myself that stuff like that is out there... you just proved it.

I'm sure you'll be out to the spot again so keep us posted. If you find out any more history of what the lot originally held, let us know.... it's very interesting.

Congrats on hitting an awesome cache. :clapping:

It took me the next two days to get the cleaned up. A lot of the coins still have a pink stain to them which I believe is from the dirt of the trash pit. If anyone has any ideas on how to remove the pink staining let me know.

Try this method on one of the coins to see how it works. It worked very well for a few silver coins I needed to clean. Obviously, make sure it is not a key date coin before attempting to clean it.

http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=813.0
 
WOW!!! Very nice I can only imagine something like that. WTG :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :twirlingeyes: :twirlingeyes: :twirlingeyes:
 
Congrats on a Super Cache Find <: <: :happydance01: :happydance01: :clapping: :clapping:,it gives us hope that there is still goodies hid in large amounts,Awsome :beerbuddy:,Welcome to the Cache Club :beerbuddy:,thanks for sharing,thats how we like seeing a cache come out of the ground dirty and in a nasty jar,hit that place again,Dave
 
It just goes to show you that you never know whats going to turn up on any given hunt. One thing is for sure we all need to just get out there and let luck or good research do the rest. :angelic: :angelic:
 
Dude that is freaking AWESOME!!! :peace: :peace: :peace: :happydance01: :happydance01: :happydance01:
Wow you just dug what we all have been looking for!!
Way to go on a great looking cache.....wow :smitten: :smitten:

just damn.. i cant improve on what evan posted.. holy freakin cow just scratches the surface about what i think about that hunt :envious: :envious: :envious:
 
All I can say is absolutely AWESOME.. <: <: :happydance01: :happydance01: :happydance01: I would have needed to go wipe myself after a dig like that.. lol lol
 

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