MasonDixonMding
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What is your best spill or if your a lucky son of a gun cache? With snow on the ground and more coming I’m already getting antsy. Would love to see some great finds to distract me.
Cache and Spills
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markinmichigan
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I had a 225+ penny spill, pile, stash last February. Scattered in about a 4 square foot area. Most all of them dated from the 60s and early 70s. Going to pull them up and post pics again.
Mark in Michigan
Mark in Michigan
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May 2023 180l draped bust dime and 1772 one reale spill
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MasonDixonMding
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That my kind of spill.
hoser
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LOL I had about the same thing happen many years ago and that was my most memorable find. About the same size area too. I suspect it was one of those sawdust penny piles for kids, but the pile must have been a long time ago as I found over 158 wheat pennies. I was stoked. The cheapo's! why couldn't they have used Mercs instead of wheats.
Lodge Scent
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Spills..... let's see..... I recall 6 IHPs once, 3 very nice large cents (2-1818s and a 1819), a Fugio and a Half Cent, 11 Wheaties between 1909 and 1920. There's more I'm sure. But I have buddies that have found truly amazing spills.
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LovestheShiny!
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My best spill was 18 wheat cents in about a 6" round area. One was a 1931-S Key Date!
This was after a snow plow cleared a turn off.they were mixed in with snow and some dirt and small chunks of black top.I just grabed handfuls of snow and coins.when I separated the coins and snow there was also 5 dead mice in the mix.i couldn't see any bag or container just coins. 1200 +.There were several with chips missing on the edge.
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SirDigsALOT!
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LOL great stories! Best I got so far was a 4 coin stack of chuck e cheese tokens.
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I found a cache of antique Indian handmade silver & turquoise rings. Back in the 60s there was a novelty store called The Gunsmoke Trading Post. A lot like Boot Hill Musume, it sold handmade Indian silver & turquoise jewelry. that was burglarized and all the jewelry stolen. Newspapers estimated the value at $15,000 back then. Over the years I followed some leads and found out the burglars got scared and tried to hide the booty by throwing it out in a field west of town. I found the location and recovered 8 of the rings. There are many more still out there, but a building was built on the top of the location. These were the only ones we could get to at the time.
markinmichigan
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CP, very cool story! Did you return those or has it been so long ago that it's finders keepers?
Mark in Michigan
Mark in Michigan
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The Gumsmoke Trading post closed some 40 years ago. I did talk to the chief of police about them some years ago and was told it was basically finders keepers at this point. The original insurance company may have had a claim, but they no longer are in business either.
markinswpa
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Well not as old as some of the previous spills mentioned I have have been very lucky when it comes to spills. If you count only 2 in the same hole or within a foot or so of each other then I would say extremely lucky. My biggest spill was a clad spill at my local park with the Etrac back in 17 giving up a total of 3.43. Shallow but I thought the finds would never end. A fun find. A few years later just off the edge of a sidewalk behind a school in an area not more than 2 ft. in diameter I hit a 13 wheat spill. I figured kids were pitching pennies back in the day. My oldest big spill came at an old city park in Jan. of 21. It was dark, cold , raining. Hadn't had much of a hunt, A few wheats, and a token. Was swinging my way back to the truck and literally across the street from where I was parked I get a penny signal on the 800. A 24 I think. Figure dig it, haven't found any clad yet, and out comes a memorial. Close by I get a clean 27-28. Thought clad dime. I pop the plug and out pops a silver dime. And then the fun began. Pinpointer kept going off. All in all a 10 coin spill with an 1800s something Ihp being the oldest and a 1923 wheat and Merc dime with full split bands in just about AU condition being the newest. Dug another Ihp pretty close
by. Talk about going from a zero to a hero in no time at all. ha ha A walk off homer for sure.. That is one hunt I will never forget.
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Then just about a year later in the same old park not too far the other spill I was digging a 15-16. A pull tab signal usually but on the previous trip I had dug a Barber dime, Buff, Ihp spill, the last being the Ihp which had flew out when I popped the plug. I was scanning the hole when I get a 15-16 about 8 in. off to the side of the hole and thats when I found the Ihp. So when I got a 15-16 on the next trip and only maybe 25 ft. from the last spill I had to dig it. A silver dime flew out first thing. This would be my most silver in one hole spill, 5 in all plus a Buff and a wheat. That hole looked like a bomb crater by the time I was finished. I've had other spills in this area since including a 3 wheat spill (same hole ) on my last hunt of 23 with the Legend
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And just a month or two later at another city park I hit an old stack spill with an SLQ, a Merc, a Buff and a wheat. So I have had more than my share of spills some big, some old but plenty of them and thankful for that.
2023 was not my year, seems I couldn't find my ass with both hands if I tried.
Good thread Andy, just what a little cabin fever can use. Also reflecting hopefully will inspire me to hunt more this year and harder as well. Good luck to you and all the members in 24. Mark
MasonDixonMding
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Some great posts! Keep them coming. I haven’t had a lot of spills but this was fun. I was on a 1700s site, three feet off the road. When I got a high tone. I was thinking it was a copper. I dug my hole and I got a clad quarter. Checked the hole there’s still a signal. Than the quarters started flying out of the hole. When I got home and counted them I had 39 quarters. The next day I went back and found the last one. This was on a corner of the road so I think some one had a roll of quarters on top of the car maybe coming home from the laundry mat and it rolled off as they turned the corner?
cellrdwellr
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This was my best spill ever, and it was a good one:
https://metaldetectingforum.com/index.php?threads/my-best-coin-spill-ever.290034/
I've also had a few smaller spills, but nothing close to that day. Great thread idea!
https://metaldetectingforum.com/index.php?threads/my-best-coin-spill-ever.290034/
I've also had a few smaller spills, but nothing close to that day. Great thread idea!
markinswpa
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I remember that post Jeff. Amazing and jealous. I still think there is a spill like that one out there in my future, well maybe. You just never know whats in the next hole, thats the beauty of it. Do you remember what the newest coin was ?
