totally bizarre coin cache found today!

[diamondjim]

Funny how things go...I like to survey many sites in a row, then return later if any show signs of life. Last week I surveyed this place and found 19th century flat button...always a good place to start. So today I go back to work it over but good...only got '53 and '11 wheats in the woods...walking back to the truck I notice a coin on the ground. Turns out to be a forgein coin, then I look over and there's a second also non-native. Curious, right on the edge of the parking lot, where'd I'd never detect that close to the cars and all the junk that usually surrounds the parking areas.

So why not, flip the detector back on and dig a total of 36 coins, from all over the world, most in two large groups. Looks like some kids coin stash that got moved around when the park was landscaped. Too funny.

Some highlights:

1918 SILVER 2 Franc-France
1899 10 Phenig-Germany
1904 US Phillipines Territorial Half Centavo

And many more...

Oh yeah, TINPAN! I got my first Aussie coin too! 1966 5 cents.

Just had this feeling there was silver there...who knew it would be a French one...bigger than a US qurater, smaller than a half and .835 fine. And what a beautifull coin! Looks like a walking liberty half.

Some kinda day for sure...

 

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[LuisTH]

Very nice cache, congrats.

 

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[jimmatt_43]

great digs

 

[Dman]

Nice finds

 

[nealb]

DJ - Sweet finds. Foreign coins are cool to find, thinking about the journey it took to being in the palm of your hand.

HH

 

[Hardy]

LOVE THOSE TOTALS

 

[Wasabi]

Wow!!!!!!! great finds.
I would get excited over the foreign coins as well.
Nice going and good eyes. Last month I found a $10.00 bill in a field I was hunting and then driving by from that same field about one week later I find a $20.00 drifiting by.
I was a amazed.
Anyway those are some great coin finds.

 

[BioProfessor]

I think I would find out which way the wind was blowing in that field and walk into the wind for a ways. Flying bills don't just appear. Or do they

Daryl

 

[Capefearsman]

Nice finds!! HH

 

[Illinois Jeff]

It may seem bizarre but for some reason foreign coins are plentifull and sometimes moreso than our own currency! It has really made me wonder how or why they were there, especially in your case where so many different coins were found. I would agree it may have been some poor kids collection and they made the mistake of taking it out of the house. I live outside the Chicagoland area and seem to be finding more foreign coins than ever before. My foreign collection is now larger than my U.S. collection! My last cache was a cigar box partially filled with coins from nazi Germany, france, england and some i cannot identify with the most recent coin dating to the 40's and the earliest at around the mid 1800's. Why it was buried is beyond me but you know what they say, "finders keepers".

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Wow, great cache find, congrats on all those interesting coins! Must have been a real fun hunt. HH, Mike