Popular Post Kaolin washer Posted August 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 3, 2020 I have been digging a 1930,s out house and before i left for the day i scanned my sniper coil thru the dirt i had trown out , finding sevral shot shells and then what i thought was a token , and this is just on top of the pile well i got it home and cleaned off the dirt , It is an 1899 V nickle , and i suppose when the out house user pulled down his pants this coin fell out , Now I am asking myself , How many other coins have fallen out ? so my plan is to take a board and put a few scoops on the board , spread it out , have a magnet handy and scan the whole pile going back in I bet it has more coins 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaolin washer Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 and by the way i used the Racer with the 5" coil ,a perfect little machine for doing this kind of work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Nice find. Unfortunately our USA nickels are among the most vulnerable of our old coins to be damaged by the ground chemicals. Didn't they also use those pits for dumping trash? That can also lead to coin finds. I recall when I was young my mom would dump out her vacuum cleaner bag on the burn pile (not while the fire was burning, though!). Those old burn piles can produce some nice finds, but of course there's a lot of undersirable metal targets to deal with. I found a few coins in an old yard where I'm pretty sure they were tossing some trash. I've read that the path from the back door to the outhouse is a particularly good area to hunt for coins. Better yet is under the clothesline, but you probably know all this. (Clotheslines have been very good to me for silver dimes in particular.) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaolin washer Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 Yes good advice , nver thought about where mom emtied the Vac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Valen Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 35 years ago I detected several old farms that had several sites for an outhouse and had found lots of very good finds. I think that the best find was a $5.00 gold piece that someone had lost. So if I find an outhouse I don't mind checking the area for an extended period of time. The coins are a little bit deeper, but worth it. GB it reminds me of the old book called "The 50 yard Dash to the Outhouse" written by Willy Makeit, and co authored by Betty Don't. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaolin washer Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 I have begun to fill the hole but am detecting all the dirt going back in , so far found a shot shell and a piece of tin that used to seal the old tin cans and i found a 22 shell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4Yy290rKw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaolin washer Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 finally finished detecting all the dirt from the out house and found a small key , wich is a hard shape to find with a detector so just one coin was lost in the outhouse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I assume the 'business end' (right end in the photo) cutout is square. Probably for a timepiece (pocket watch or small clock). What detector and what digital TID did it show before you dug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxkatt Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Nice find! I can see how the coin got there. Heck if I was using an outhouse now, I would probably lose lots of coins, since now with my jeans around my ankles, coins always fall out of my pockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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