Has anyone on here ever found a cache?

[Navy_Sr_Chief]

I have been in this hobby going on 15 years. During that time, I have hunted numerous old homes and farmsteds. To date, I have never discovered a money cache (did find a marble cache once). Once I hunted my Great Uncle's old farm. He was known to carry and stash lots of money. When he committed suicide, he had over $5000.00 in his bib overalls. While cleaning out his house, my mother discovered an additional $20,000.00 in an old lunchbox in the bottom of an old quilt box, under a bunch of musty old linen. Back to my hunt: I found a couple of silver dimes spread around the farm and several old mason jar lids. Needless to say, every time I would uncover the top of a mason jar, my heart would jump! But it was always either just the lid or the jar was empty.

 

[Iron Patch]

I can't go into any details because it's not my find.... but friends of mine found a cache of War of 1812 belt plates. They were spread by the plow, but 5 were still together in one hole. (18 plates total so far) I can't imagine how much rarer that must be than a coin cache, so there's no doubt there's caches to be found, you just have to be extremely lucky!

 

[Clayton]

I have been in this hobby going on 15 years. During that time, I have hunted numerous old homes and farmsteds. To date, I have never discovered a money cache (did find a marble cache once). Once I hunted my Great Uncle's old farm. He was known to carry and stash lots of money. When he committed suicide, he had over $5000.00 in his bib overalls. While cleaning out his house, my mother discovered an additional $20,000.00 in an old lunchbox in the bottom of an old quilt box, under a bunch of musty old linen. Back to my hunt: I found a couple of silver dimes spread around the farm and several old mason jar lids. Needless to say, every time I would uncover the top of a mason jar, my heart would jump! But it was always either just the lid or the jar was empty.

Oh man, keep going back!!!!

 

[digdug1968]

Needless to say, every time I would uncover the top of a mason jar, my heart would jump! But it was always either just the lid or the jar was empty.

Lol, same here - I find lots of mason jar lids, found one this week, with the lid pointed up....... funny how that makes one's heart skip a few beats, eh? But no jar full of coins, or anything other than dirt....... but they still getcha every time ya dig one!

I did see on treasurenet once a story of someone digging a mason jar full of old marbles. Even that would be cool!

 

[metaladdict]

I found 2 small caches in the year Ive been doing mding. My first was 7 quarters in one place! The second was a small fabric pouch with some various coins,not much but fun.

 

[Burien]

I have found two, both were pre-1890 (there was a major fire which swept through this are in 1890 and both caches had been affected by the fire.

One was a child's cache of pretty stones and something which carbonized - material or paper?

The other was a jar which had been buried filled with hazelnuts. Something for the holidays that became lost?

Still looking for my first monetary cache.....

 

[SEABEE1931]

Long ago when I first started detecting,with a home made detector, abeat freak from pop electronics. I had read about post hole banks, so I tried it. A quart of silver was my rreward, on post number 7 from the house. Bob this was in the sixties.

 

[Bonesquat]

I found a pocket spill this previous weekend with 10 quarters in the same hole. Does that count as a cache?

 

[Clayton]

I found a pocket spill this previous weekend with 10 quarters in the same hole. Does that count as a cache?

If you want it to! At least you might be safe from somebody breaking into your house for it...but the Feds will probably still want a cut.

 

[CoiltoSoil]

When my uncles crew was building a road not too far from me they found a few cannonballs from the Rev war and one guy found a cache of gold coins, I have no idea what the age or type was, I dont think anyone who witnessed it knew much about coins. Someone did say a hermit lived on the land a long time ago.

 

[dogpound]

unless ya want lost family members, lawyers and uncle sam knockin at your door, i wouldn't say a word.

 

[CoiltoSoil]

unless ya want lost family members, lawyers and uncle sam knockin at your door, i wouldn't say a word.

I'd wait for the hot single girls

 

[steve in so la]

dirtfisn - Not only keep quiet about finding a cache but keep quiet about everyday finds. When I'm out detecting & they ask what I'm finding and I always say just a few pennies so far. steve in so az

 

[nc_reb]

I heard.......

talking to an old friend of mine this week about borrowing his detector to take another pard digging with me, he mentioned, that he had heard about someone, who was kin to a fella, who knew of a person, who asked his grandpa where would he have hid money during the depression if he had decided to do so.....supposedly the older gentleman said "right outside the bedroom window...so that you could hear folks plundering around at night."

With this valuable lesson in mind, according to this fable/folklore, this young and quick learner head out with his trusty detector to one of several old farm sites he knew about. While spending a day digging a few pennies and trash, he remembered the answer to his question, and picked out the biggest window in the old structure and headed that way suposing it was the "master bedroom".

Lo and behold! A HUGE signal....could it be.....nah...too big....hmmphf.."I'll dig it anyway" this intrepid stranger said to himself. According to this unconfirmed account, the dude found a galvanized foot tub in the hole, turned upside down, over top of seven,.....count'em seven mason jars full of silver coins, and even some old paper bills rolled up in one of the jars.

Now I can not verify if this was true or not.....but I will be checking under windows from now on .

 

[OCHawgy]

I would not mention finding a cashe. I once mentioned a nice find and then I received an email warning me not to talk about the find. The emailer warned that my house might be broken into and that I could be followed. Neither ever happened but it did open my eyes. Most people wont believe you anyway.

Happy hunting and share your best finds with your family only,

Dirtfishen

You can always share your caches, but you have to be smart about it. Of course I would want to share it with the whole community on these forums, but I would make a new account using a proxy and unrelated email address etc so there was no trace back to me. Then I would post the video. My name would not be personally associated with a cache that would result in the feds seizing it or thieves trying to take it. Anyone breaking into my house would get one to the head and the rest to the chest. As far as the feds go, they would never find anything to prove me finding such a treasure. I would even mess with them by having a bunch of fake gold chocolate coins hidden somewhere in a closet. That way when they demand the cache, I would show them the chocolate laughing as I explain the publicity stunt.

 

[searcher64]

Once on a beach I found 5 halfs wrapped in about 3 $20.00's.
Before I had a MD. I was in the Boy Scouts and while on a camping trip, we found coins in a creek, We found about $100.00 in coins. About 20-25 were Stone Mountain halfs, other halfs, quarters, nickels ("V"s and shield's). Also many cents IH's, and flying eagles. My fingers were raw on the Sunday that we went home.
That's what started me collecting coins. Oh, one of the neatest coin was a 1875s 20c piece. (:-O)

 

[OCHawgy]

Once on a beach I found 5 halfs wrapped in about 3 $20.00's.
Before I had a MD. I was in the Boy Scouts and while on a camping trip, we found coins in a creek, We found about $100.00 in coins. About 20-25 were Stone Mountain halfs, other halfs, quarters, nickels ("V"s and shield's). Also many cents IH's, and flying eagles. My fingers were raw on the Sunday that we went home.
That's what started me collecting coins. Oh, one of the neatest coin was a 1875s 20c piece. (:-O)

Ever head back to that creek with a MD?

 

[PuddleJumper]

I wouldn't call this a cache, more like a pain in the a$$. Apparently someone dropped two rolls of pennies, I spent over an hour crawling around on my hands and knees with the pin pointer just popping one after another. This was just from one pop of the probe.

 

[OCHawgy]

Was there any age to the pennies? I am assuming they were all clad.

 

[PuddleJumper]

There was one wheat out of the whole bunch and I believe it was a '58.