Who has coins buried on their property?

Crazy4Coins

I'll be over with my metal detector...

No really, not that you would bury them...or maybe you do... if a little paranoid. But what about rumors of family members or previous owners burying money in the yard. I know it used to be common in the years past. I have a friend whos Grandfather had money hidden all over his property and in the walls of his house. The neighbor used to see him out at night digging and suspected something. After his grandfather passed away the neighbor bought the property and started digging. Found something like $68,000 in coins after excavating and tearing apart walls and floors. The neighbor being a nice guy split the money with the family in good faith. This was probably 50 years ago.

Thought it was interesting and worth sharing...

LincolnCentMan

It was very common in the depression and post depression erra. I know of faimly members that burried their money. I do not ascribe to that method of savings.

David

jdimmick

Years ago when I used to detect for fun, thier were two significant coin finds in this area (not by me)

1) at the site of a new nursing home, a detectorist uncovered a small cache of $20 doible eagles, about 9-10 coins in all.

2) about 1/2 mile from it, some one detectoring at a under excavation site for a new firestation uncovered a small hoard of about 200 Morgan $.

fcloud

My previous house was built in 1929. I used to find change in the yard when I was digging in the garden. Later we checked with a metal detector. We didn't find much but it was fun! I think over time a lot of homes have coins burried. If you think about it people grab their keys to get in the house and drop smoe small change. The kids play out in the yard and loose that dime or quarter grandma just gave them. Over time these finds can be fun and in rare cases profitable.

Barberman55

My wife's cousin recently bought a home (over a hundred years old) and discovered a can of Morgan dollars in a wall, while doing some renovation work. Unfortunately he sold all the coins before I had an opportunity to look at them. These are the kinds of things I dream about......makes you want to go out and buy a nice metal detector.

Bikingnut

My father has a couple dozen old houses in south central PA, some dating back to the 1830's. He has found some very interesting coins and items in several. In one house that a tennant tried to burn down, he found two 1864 Indian cents and and 1865 two center jammed between a window frame and the log that the frame was nailed to. In another house recently he was removing an old mantle and found an extremely worn SLQ. The only way you can tell it's an SLQ is that you can just barely see the top of Miss Liberty's head. In the same house he found a campaign pin from Theodore Roosevelts election.

dizzyfoxx

I don't think anyone will be finding mine!

ziggy29

I found a crusty '74-D Roosie in the back yard last year...I was tempted to leave it there, since that might be a glorious find for someone in 100 more years...

Crazy4Coins

dizzyfox, If my calculations are correct you put them inside your LP tank ?

tsacch

My wife and I have buried coins on the property to even out the irregular shape...its a kind of a esoteric feng shui fix thing.

BBN

I bury my money in mutual funds. Just not much of a return in my backyard.

BILLZACH

some years ago a farmer down the road had a hired hand plowing field, he went to check on him later on in the day, the hire hand was gone, tractor was sitting in front of a hole with the inprint of a kettle, hire hand moved out of town very soon afterwards, odds was it was buried money...

michael

Who has coins buried on their property?

nope none

Boom

In the yard, in a safe chained down in the attic, in the walls, under the floors, in the mattress....everywhere!

Murphy

I planted a Coin Garden in my back yard about ten years ago so that I could test the effectiveness of my metal detector. I put wheaties, mercury dimes and silver quarters at depths from 6" to 8" and so far I get good signals every time I check with my Whites IDX.

Down the street and around the corner is an old historic two story brick home dating to the 1830's and a recent new owner checked the basement with a detector and found a handful of gold coins buried under the coal bin.

I've heard oldtimers tell of their friends burying coins in their back yard. I was told one story where a delivery was made to a home and the man didn't have any cash on him and had to go out back and dig some up, lol. That was told to me by someone I trust as being true. Another story goes that behind the animal hospital, under the parking lot is a bag of gold coins buried by an old mizer. In Carroll Co., Kentucky is a story that Jesse James robbed a bank around there and was chased through there. Many believe he buried the loot around a bridge over the Kentucky River at Carrollton. People have looked, dug but nobody will admit to finding anything. I heard another story about a mildly retarded grave digger in Carrollton who was digging a grave and found a lot of $20 gold pieces. He went in a bar and told of the find to the bar tender who immediately bought the coin from him. When asked what he did with the rest of them, he replied that he threw them into the river. He didn't think they were real because they didn't look like coins that you'd normally find in circulation today. They're mostly all just stories, to capture the imigination but I know that a couple of them are true.

I took a friend of mine to do some MDing at the family farm. He found a mercury dime that I actually remember losing when I was about 11 or 12 yrs old. He also found a set of keys that my grandfather lost in the front yard back in the late 1960's. It had a brass tag stating who to contact if found.

ozzysdad

I remember a house being torn down across the street from my Jr. High school, The man that was hired to tear it down found a suitcase full of gold coin's. Supposedly there was close to 16,000.00 in face value. The workman took the coins to the man who had hired him. The guy gave him 500.00 and the rest of the day off..... Rumour's spread like wildfire, The man who owned the property was a millionaire several times over already, He could barely sign his name, But could work number's in his head. This man was involved in Loansharking, Prostitution and drug's. I like the honesty of the worker, But if i had been the one who found that suitcase, And knowing that the man i was working for was a crook to begin with........ Well, I suppose that the situation would have been easily settled... FINDER'S KEEPER'S........

headsplitter2

No coins that I know of, but next summer they are going to put in new sewer and water on my street so
I will have plenty of new ground to detect.
On another note my Aunt & Uncle bought an older home from a family that inherted the house and the
old woman that lived their supposedly died pennyless. But in the basement she buried her money in a wall
that was made of fieldstone, she had a cream can buried sideways inside the wall and placed a rock in front of the lid. The mortar was newer than the rest, so my uncle chipped out the rock and found all sorts of cash and coins inside which they gave back to the family that sold them the house.

Cladiator

Buddy of mine pulled up a silver Rosy from my front yard quite some time ago. He was testing out his new Minelab.

Rhack

Not buried, but pretty neat. Big ups to the gentlemen that found these.

Coin Find

topstuf

Don't tell anyone, but I buried my bullion one night at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA.

17 paces from the guard shack and NNW from the entrance.

Sssssshhhh.

Shamika

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13PacesEast

yup.

13PacesEast

10 Paces North.

But only modern crap and bullion.

Cladiator

<< <i>The house that my wife and I live in was originally built in 1812. I've often wondered what, if anything, could be buried in/around the house. >>

Get yourself a metal detector man!

mrearlygold

I had a customer who REALLY was a ______ ( you know who you are). He buried over half a million dollars in early gold he bought from me in his backyard. Coins like a 1797 SMALL Eagle eagle in choice AU, 1796 in MS, that kind of "stuff".

Apparently was so paranoid he buried them in a box/container that also had some kind of chemicals in it. When he shipped me the coins a year later to trade, my postal person gave me funny looks and each one of the boxes had a chemical odor coming out of it ( this was also prior to 911 thankfully). When I opened the boxes, you could not see what the coins were! Each slab, ( yup, P's as well as N's ) were slightly MELTED.

I made him sign an affadavit holding me harmless before I cracked them out.

Jeeesh!

AACoinCo

My grandfather always told us that he hide his coins on the property and to look for them when he died. He was a lumberjack all his life and lived fruguly. Well the day came when he passed on and we did what he said and searched not expecting to find anything. He had a store room out on the property and when we opened the door there was logging chain pilled four feet deep in the shed. When we went to sell the property we decided to get rid of the chain. Underneat were several chests full of morgan and peace dollars, dimes, quaters and halfs. Aboout 20k face of coins. I have the nicer coins still in the vault and the best part was that in one of the chest was an 1911 Colt .45 cal pistol. It was a great day and the start to my coin collecting and the start of my business. Never collected as a child.

Peaceman

My grandfather and grandmother, rest their soles, buried one of their treasured peices of furniture when the Chicago fire started..... we still have it.... it was the only thing that survived it...... so doing the same to a coin collection doesn't seem too far off....

Edited to add: I remember watching a special on TV about 10 years ago that people used to hide a dollar coin within their house about 80-120 years ago for some type of good luck or when they got married or something like that.... I forget the exact reason.... anyone hear of this?

kiyote

My family still owns a drafty old farmhouse in Ohio that was built in 1849. About half of the thing is closed off year round (I've never been in the full length attic that was sealed off in '74) I've found plenty of coins while gardening, though nothing to fantastic. I would *love* to explore a couple abandoned wells on the farm, but that's pretty darned scary. (dangerous)