I felt like a real Detectorist today!

Coin spills usually happen by someone sitting on the ground, pocket wedges open and $$$ca-ching$$$...change spills out and the person takes off and doesn't notice.

Awesome day congrats!

Ace400 said:

I found a bit of a spill once before, much fresher drop but it was a pile of coins sitting horizontally and laying flat... These were on their sides stacked like they were in a coin roll that was laying horizontally in the ground... But all different denominations in a coin roll? And there was no remnant of a purse or roll or anything. Is this typical?

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Any number of things could have caused it, from being stepped on to run over with a lawn mower wheel. Just depends on how they fall and how they lean, could have also been a kid shoving change into the ground too. Wondering how it got there, stacked like that is part of the fun!

I find the key blank interesting. Not many people would be carrying a key blank--a locksmith, maybe, but beyond that not likely. Interesting...

You had a terrific day detecting. There are more coins spills out there than you can imagine. Lot's of people swing right pass them without digging them thinking that they're junk targets.

beephead

Crackerjack said:

I find the key blank interesting. Not many people would be carrying a key blank--a locksmith, maybe, but beyond that not likely. Interesting...

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I was thinking that too! I have a bunch from when I was a kid that a locksmith gave me, I liked them because they were all different colors.

beephead said:

You had a terrific day detecting. There are more coins spills out there than you can imagine. Lot's of people swing right pass them without digging them thinking that they're junk targets.

beephead

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Thanks
Reeeeeeally wish I had paid more attention to the sounds and #'s! I was pretty sure I was going to dig up can slaw, but something just wasn't quite right...

Nice finds. It is always fun to find a coin spill...it helps to fill up the find pouch faster. And to mention, it sort of makes one's heart beat a little faster. Congrats on the gold too!

Congrats on a great hunt! I've found most of my spills at volleyball courts.

Great Find! Multidenom spills/stacks,slants are quite hard to discern for a detector...Like Beep said, to a detector, they register as scrap and are dismissed on account of these rigs are designed to accurately hit on a single coin target...So yeah, like gold chains, theres a lot of them out there that have probably had a coil overhead a time or two....

Location: Look for gentle slopes where a person would sit to watch a game or something...even on the flat where a person would sit with a good vantage point or something for the Fireworks or whatnot..where they would tuck their knees up to their chest and perhaps roll onto their back? Yep! Pocket spill! Popular gentle slopes seem to be the best locations......then you focus up on pocket spill sounding targets...

I found one similar to yours in January, vertical stack...and it was in a place it shouldnt have been that I have repeatedly gone over...right along a school door entrance...It was wrapped in a light tissue that you can see on the side of the hole there...Cladders like to hunt spills...thats where the money is!

We see some old silver spills show up from time to time..especially if theres a buff nickel in the mix, even a silver dollar would sound like complete scrap!

Imagine what a $20 gold coin would sound like with an Indian head Penny on top? Scrap! Nice find there Ace! Multidenom spills teach a guy..I think you are right with that gold cap by the seesaws...imagine what happened there! Ouch! boom!

This is a thinking game..you are thinking about what your finds are telling you, so yeah..You are a detectorist alright!

You are a detectorist , congrats nice mix of finds , your lucky to be able to dig in a nice park , HH

Ace400 said:

Like Sand volleyball? There are a couple of those in the park I hit but by the time I got my detector in December, they had been cleaned out. And I mean squeaky clean, not even any junk to scoop out. I've checked around the edges a little bit but haven't worked them too hard because they too seem to have been pretty well pounded.

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Yeah, sand volleyball, especially with grass sloped areas around mid-court. I dug stack after stack at a local sideline. And it's most certainly from people sitting and losing a bunch of coins at once, like someone said. Of course this isn't "the rule" or anything and it really could be any spectator area. I also found that soccer fields with surrounding runs or small hills to the woods are clad spill havens. Bored siblings run up and down these repeatedly and drop all sorts of loot, including multiple coins. HH!