Anyone ever made any good finds on their own lawn?

GoldenEyeNumismatics

Have you?

pcgs69

about 10 years ago when I got my Spectrum XLT, my very first find was a 1964 Roosie. And surprisingly, that's about the only good thing I pulled out of that yard.

millennium

Oddly enough, I tried that yesterday, I was going to another site, but it didn't pan out, so I got in my backyard for the first time in 10 years...I found 5 cents all before 1979 and 4 quarters between 1978 and 1983...I was pretty surprised.

crispy

I've found a Merc and few wheaties in addition to the normal current coinage. Doesn't surprise me though as the house was built in '36. My next door neighbor's home was built in 1917. She just moved in last year and plans on having all the landscaping redone. I've already asked if I could detect there prior to this happening and got the affirmative.

2bits

I took more than 100 coins from my yard when I first moved in ,,several silver coins and lots of wheaties and clad,,plus the usual toy cars ,and misc. stuff .

Im still not sure I have found it all ,,the earliest coin was a 1913 wheatie the oldest silver was a 1917 Mercury dime.

shudson

I'm going to have to wait until the snow melts before I can get at my yard, but I can't wait. My house is over 100 years old and used to be some sort of convenience store back in the day. Should be lots of nice things in the yard!

When I bought the place, even without a detector I found a few nice things while renovating:

A large 1911 Canadian cent piece (Surprise, Newfoundland didn't join Canada until 1949!)

A nice old brass flashlight

An old vodka bottle

Lots of old WWII era documents, ticket stubs, etc.

A 1970's newspaper that had an ad for a $600 floor model colour TV!

I had to pour a concrete floor in my basement around the same time as well. Now I'm wondering about what I may have covered up!

ASUtodd

I have found that my house was built on top of a aluminum can recycling center....
Todd

Pghpete

The house I grew up in, in Pittsburgh was built in the 1880s. My brothers and I had found several items throughout the years. I have the record for the oldest coin - an 1887 IHC. The Obverse was terribly corroded from being face up in the ground with the date barely readable. The reverse though was very nice.

millennium

Well......you could live here:

ASUtodd

I do...... cept add the whole can... Oh did I mention sheets of tin from the old barns that used to be here... gah..
Todd

lordmarcovan

Just check out the wondrous bonanza from my backyard. Woohoo.

(Item #5 is a crusty 1963 cent. Oooh, yeah, baby- the motherlode awaits.)

lordmarcovan

Actually, though, I did get a few Wheaties and a 1944 Mexican 5-centavo piece in my front yard in North Carolina, where we had a house that had been built in 1930. Mexican laborers had reportedly lived there during the war. The house had been built by Beacon Manufacturing Company, and I guess Beacon had brought Mexican workers in while the usual boys were off in Europe and the Pacific.

That Mexican coin was my very first coin found with a modern detector, and the first in my "keeper" album from when I started my counts again in 1992. My prior records and finds from the 1980s got lost when I went off to college in 1984. I used an old TR detector back then.

So in other words, that 1944 Mexican coin I dug is Digger's Diary Coin #1. The last addition to the keeper album, on January 27, a 1944 Mercury dime, is DD#301. The keeper album is where all the silver and "better" stuff goes (not counting Wheaties, modern foreign and tokens, etc.)

Dockwalliper

My yard a 1940 wheatie. Neighbor to the south a 1918 wheatie. Neighbor to the North a 1940 Quarter.

crispy

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Well at least you don't have to mow the lawn.

pendragon1998

"1776" Continental Curency Piece (counterfeit)- Found in the dirt crawlspace under our old home in NE Georgia by my father back in the early 1990s, by sight, partially buried in the dirt foundation. Home was build in the late 1970s. Cleaned by mom (sigh) using soft scrub. I've been told by everyone who's seen photos that it's a counterfeit, but that last 1% of doubt remains in my mind due soley to the details of its finding. (I can dream, can't I?)

I've considered sending it to NCS just to see if I can conserve it for the sentimental value.

CROCKofCOINS

I see you!



Jerry

2bits

<< <i>"1776" Continental Curency Piece (counterfeit)- Found in the dirt crawlspace under our old home in NE Georgia by my father back in the early 1990s, by sight, partially buried in the fill dirt. Home was build in the late 1970s. Cleaned by mom (sigh) using soft scrub. I've been told by everyone who's seen photos that it's a counterfeit, but that last 1% of doubt remains in my mind due soley to the details of its finding. (I can dream, can't I?)

I've considered sending it to NCS just to see if I can conserve it for the sentimental value.

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Take a look at a real one ,,

Real one

shudson

<< <i>Just check out the wondrous bonanza from my backyard. Woohoo.

(Item #5 is a crusty 1963 cent. Oooh, yeah, baby- the motherlode awaits.) >>



Hey, I hear tin is the new gold this season... congrats.

pocketpiececommems

I have found about 50 cents in clad. Mostly in the front along the sidewalk and one small Sterling Silver ring. I also found a dog tag dated 1968. I wouldn't want to hunt too many place like my yard. Not much there. Our kids didn't have much money to lose either.

pendragon1998

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Take a look at a real one ,,

Real one >>



Well, yeah, I know mine is a counterfeit...I was just trying to say that I'm a bit wistful about the possibility of it not being one. I still want to get mine conserved, though, and it would be interesting to determine when the counterfeit was created. Our land was on the site of a 19th century cotton plantation, so it's possible the coin had been there for some time.

millennium

Well, yeah, I know mine is a counterfeit...I was just trying to say that I'm a bit wistful about the possibility of it not being one. I still want to get mine conserved, though, and it would be interesting to determine when the counterfeit was created. Our land was on the site of a 19th century cotton plantation, so it's possible the coin had been there for some time.





I'd say it was probably made before 1975..That is when the Hobby Act was put into law, I believe. That's the law that said copies and reproductions had to have the word "COPY" on them somewhere...

2bits

I posted the link to the varieties of these coins not so much to confirm that yours is a copy ,,but more so that you could take a look at the different varieties of these coins ,, and compare yours to them .

Its seldom that a person runs accross someone in the local coin stores who is expert enough to know all the varieties by sight ,,and it is more seldom that you will find a local dealer who will take the time to research the varieties to conclusively eliminate any and all doubt that the coin is a fake , reproduction or copy .

madmacabre

1837 hard time tocken found when I was digging in my back yard when I was a kid , Ill post a picture when I get home. its pretty much one of the very first coins I had when I started collecting.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>1837 hard time tocken found when I was digging in my back yard when I was a kid , Ill post a picture when I get home. its pretty much one of the very first coins I had when I started collecting. >>



Wow. Look forward to seein' this one. Which variety is it?





You guys are good with the Photoshop. Far beyond me.




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I almost missed the little face, peekin' outta the window. Now who could THAT be?

(Whoever he is, he'll be able to pay off that house after he recycles all the aluminum.)

windwhispersintrees

At the house I grew up in (built circa 1955), my best finds were an 1887-S Seated Liberty dime and three Ike dollars stacked up. All found in the early 1980s with a Relco TX-70.
At my own home (built 1965), my best finds were a dateless Standing Liberty quarter and an old pocket watch. Found with a Fisher 1225-x.