Should there be a coin?

[MisterHelix]

I have found hundreds of relics on this central Virginia farm property, from horseshoes to shotgun stamps to plowshares to axe heads, buckles and pocketknives and musical instruments from the 1900’s.

I have not found a single coin that dates before 1950, and that was in the driveway of the house build in the late 2000’s.

So.

Where are the coins?
Should there not be an Indian head penny amongst the hundreds of shotgun stamps?

I have spent at least a hundred hours up and down the mountain. I have almost a million square feet to cover, and some of it is impenetrable briar patch. I have found lots of stuff with the Nokta Simplex Ultra, even a silver cufflink from the 1900’s.

But no coins (not counting the approx 100 clad and zincoln coins from the modern houses yard and driveway.)

My wife says everyone was so poor there’s no coins to be found on our slice of the farm.

What do you think?

 

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[Jorgeke]

I have found hundreds of relics on this central Virginia farm property, from horseshoes to shotgun stamps to plowshares to axe heads, buckles and pocketknives and musical instruments from the 1900’s.

I have not found a single coin that dates before 1950, and that was in the driveway of the house build in the late 2000’s.

So.

Where are the coins?
Should there not be an Indian head penny amongst the hundreds of shotgun stamps?

I have spent at least a hundred hours up and down the mountain. I have almost a million square feet to cover, and some of it is impenetrable briar patch. I have found lots of stuff with the Nokta Simplex Ultra, even a silver cufflink from the 1900’s.

But no coins (not counting the approx 100 clad and zincoln coins from the modern houses yard and driveway.)

My wife says everyone was so poor there’s no coins to be found on our slice of the farm.

What do you think?

I think some coins must be there, waiting for see again the sun.

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[pepperj]

I have found hundreds of relics on this central Virginia farm property, from horseshoes to shotgun stamps to plowshares to axe heads, buckles and pocketknives and musical instruments from the 1900’s.

I have not found a single coin that dates before 1950, and that was in the driveway of the house build in the late 2000’s.

So.

Where are the coins?
Should there not be an Indian head penny amongst the hundreds of shotgun stamps?

I have spent at least a hundred hours up and down the mountain. I have almost a million square feet to cover, and some of it is impenetrable briar patch. I have found lots of stuff with the Nokta Simplex Ultra, even a silver cufflink from the 1900’s.

But no coins (not counting the approx 100 clad and zincoln coins from the modern houses yard and driveway.)

My wife says everyone was so poor there’s no coins to be found on our slice of the farm.

What do you think?

Have to do a little research on who did the homesteading there.
Certain homesteads just didn't loose money it seemed.
I hunted 5 or 6 homesteads years ago.
Great relics, not a single coin.
I did some research and discovered the Quakers were the first settlers at those sites.
Great relics-no change.

 

[l.cutler]

There are places like that. If there was nowhere to spend money close by, then there was no reason to carry money on your person for it to be lost. Maybe no children, probably the biggest source of lost coins. Subsistence farmers really didn't have cash, they grew what they needed or bartered for it. Or maybe just a family that was very careful and frugal.

 

[mjb Mike]

ive hunted homesteads with very little coins.I think the older they were the less coins you find.I just think there was not alot of money back then seems like the older it is the fewer coins you find.

 

[sprailroad]

All of the above plus it is very difficult at best to cover every square inch of a large area, as we all know. You can go to the same area a dozen times, and always find something you missed the first eleven times before.

 

[mjb Mike]

yes that is true hunted a house site 6 or 7 times with no coins last time back finally found one there

 

[pepperj]

All of the above plus it is very difficult at best to cover every square inch of a large area, as we all know. You can go to the same area a dozen times, and always find something you missed the first eleven times before.

Northern areas has more frost movement also than non frost climates. Items are always moving in the dirt, what was masked might become unmasked in a few years. Need to bring back deeper soil working. 4 inches isn't enough to change a site too much.

 

[Digginitdaily]

I've noticed the same. Last week while showing my dad some stuff from a mill I'm hunting I brought up that I haven't found any coins. He replied with "they were probably broke". But I realized that the quality of the items I found is top quality for that time frame so they obviously weren't too broke. The Ihp's have always been tricky for me. Try around the mailbox area or where they burned trash.

 

[bologna321]

I have sites like this too, found a few tax tokens but no coins whatsover. Some places it took me 5 or so trips to find one coin though.

 

[Slowtaknow]

Maybe cherry picked, maybe not much there to find. Could be you'd have better luck with a lower frequency like a fisher f2/f4-5.6 I believe. Said to be better for coin shooting.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Same here. I’m hunting an old farm site. The owner is 80 and has lived there his whole life and says it’s never been detected. I’m finding everything but coins. The barter system was alive and well here in the 1880s.

 

[jcc]

Maybe the coins are all in a mason jar under a post.
Detect the old fence lines. Detect the paths between the outbuildings.
Find the swimming hole.