" Treasure " In My Back Yard!

[Joe D.]

   I've been absent from detecting for awhile, due to moving, and all the "joys" that come with that!

  Today was only my second time out in the yard, and immediate area since than! I was using my Vanquish, and decided to try my new backyard a bit! I had only tried my driveway, and a few small areas near the house a few weeks ago, with only some clad and zincoln's to show for it!

   But today was better!

   No silver yet, but along with a few other 60's and 70's coins in the area, I hit on a large "spill" of wheat pennies! Interesting, as I've never found so many in one small area, and my house was built in 81' but the neighborhood goes back into the 40's! It took the better part of an hour, but I came away with 38 in about a 4-5 sf area! They are pretty encrusted, but I'm in the process of cleaning them! If there are any left, the V8 coil didn't find them! But they were anywhere between 2 and 8 inches down, so I will go over the area again with the V10, and other detectors! 

   In the mean time, no need to worry about any competition, as they were in my yard after all! Now, if only I can find a silver spill like that!!🤣👍👍

 

Update:

   That's as good as there gonna get! Apparently, my yard likes to eat it's Wheaties!!😵

[JNimons]

Thats a whole lot of Wheat! Congrats!

[Valens Legacy]

Good job on finding the coins, but I know you can do better than that. Get back out there tomorrow and get the rest of them and a few dimes that you missed.

Good job and happy hunting.

[F350Platinum]

Nice wheat field you have there! 👍 Glad to see you back. I hope your new location proves to be fruitful. Looking forward to your finds! 🙂

[rvpopeye]

Don't know 'bout the rest of the place but Nice Yahd !👍

[GB_Amateur]

I had a similar experience in a yard where the house was razed and property acquired by the city to be annexed to a local park.  (I was first to hunt it.  Yeah!!)  My suspicion is that children played with their saved pennies (or maybe their parents wanted them out of their hair for a couple hours and said "here, go play with these.")  That might be what you're experienceing, too. 

Now that you've cleaned up the copper, go back and get the silver!

[kac]

No bodies to go with the shell casing?

Whole lotta wheaties, bet theres a buffalo or 2 there also. Nice one!

[CPT_GhostLight]

Good haul, Joe. The wheaties seem to show mostly 1940s dates. I wonder if there was a clothes line over that area in the 40s-50s. That could account for all the wheats that close together, or possibly a penny jar that was buried and broke over time.

[F350Platinum]

I think the Cap'n is on to something. Maybe this type, it would concentrate the coins:

[GnshpCSO]

My house was built in 1994 on land that has no history of others living here in the past. So my finds in my yard have all been modern from previous owners of my home. It sure must be cool to live on a historical piece of property and be able to pull old coins and relics out of your own yards. I’ve been looking for an older property at an affordable price around here, but the term affordable isn’t applicable to anything in my area. 😑