Is It Possible?

[AZ-Mtnman]

First off, I'd like to say what a great site I think this is! I belong to several forums (all gold based since that has been my thing for a while), but for the shear magnitude of great info that all here are willing to share, it can't be beat. Since I'm new to this forum and the hobby side of MDing, I've been spending hours (ok, days) reading old posts about great finds all over the country. Very well done, by the way, but if you spend that much time bombarding yourself with that much info in that short of a time, you start to notice patterns. Hear me out before going off the deep end, this is only my take on it, and it's all broad generalizations, not saying it's set in stone. On the surface, it's all pretty apparent why what's being found is being found in that area, stands to reason. But, what I've noticed is that the guys in the NE are finding more colonial area coins and coppers. Mid Atlantic and south does well with Civil War relics, silver, and Spanish type coins. Midwest does well with slightly newer silver and military artifacts. West does the best with mining relics and number of gold coins. My question is, and I know it's a tall order, has anyone ever sat down and mapped out just where what has ever been found? I'll go ahead and say I don't know squat about coins or their values. Learned more in a couple of weeks here than I have my whole life about it. I'll use this as an example, read several posts about pine tree? oak tree? anyway, some kind of tree coins found by guys mostly around the Mass area (1600's), but never hear of any further west or south. With the migration, why wouldn't the coins from up there migrate as well? Did everyone cash in their smaller coins for larger silver or gold before beginning the trip, or what? I'd just like to hear your take on it.

Randy

 

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[Iron Patch]

Yes, tree shillings were not limited to MA. I'm about 7 hours away from the site of the wreck and can tell you just about anything can turn up in the ground here.

"Massachusetts began minting its own coins in 1652 because of a shortage of reliable currency. This defied orders from Britain that no coins were to be minted in the colonies. Feversham represents one of the rare large discoveries of this coinage - over 120 Massachusetts coins were recovered."

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=1625

 

[AZ-Mtnman]

I'm sorry "wreck??". From what I'd been reading on here, I thought they were a part of the local economy. Excuse my ignorance, like I said, I don't know anything about coins.

 

[Iron Patch]

I'm sorry "wreck??". From what I'd been reading on here, I thought they were a part of the local economy. Excuse my ignorance, like I said, I don't know anything about coins.

Shipwreck.

The ship went down off Nova Scotia, Canada having a large amount of the tree coins. That is proof they left MA, sometimes in big numbers.

 

[AZ-Mtnman]

LOL ok, even I know what a wreck is, even here in the middle of the desert. What I was saying is that I haven't run across any mention of one associated with those coins in any of the posts I've read here. If that is where they came from, that is even more interesting than if they were minted in that local area, like I thought. If that's the case, I might have to get up that way one of these days and see about finding one.

 

[Iron Patch]

LOL ok, even I know what a wreck is, even here in the middle of the desert. What I was saying is that I haven't run across any mention of one associated with those coins in any of the posts I've read here. If that is where they came from, that is even more interesting than if they were minted in that local area, like I thought. If that's the case, I might have to get up that way one of these days and see about finding one.

Yes minted there, and for the most part found there. I do have an online friend who found an Oak Tree Shilling in Upstate, NY. Also seen a digger from RI found one, not sure if it was in his home state but could have been.