Cache of coins found while metal detecting- LIVE!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Added: We do acknowlege that the use of a knife was a very bad idea. Mike thought it was some sort of plate and called me once he brushed away the dirt to film it's removal. The overwhelming excitement of realizing it was a container and anticipatation of what might be in it took away any calm sensibility.And for those asking, it was found with a Tesoro Cibola. Thanks!
While metal detecting during the Grand National Relic Shootout sponsored by The Treasure Depot, Mike uncovers a cache of coins in the area of a Civil War camp among artillery frags and shells.
I have been metal detecting for 25 years, and currently hunt with an E-trac. Point being, I am very serious about the hobby. I hope you realize what a "once in a life time" experience this was and savor it for a long, long time. That was one incredible find! I congratulate you for doing what most of us will only ever dream of!
Tim (deepbeeps)
No doubt about the authenticity of this stuff...
Refreshing to see a real find...
Too many suspicious metal detector"finds" on RUclips...
Thanks for the real thing.
I call b.s.
How exciting.. I was shaking too and I had nothing to do with it and I wasn't even there.. I sat on my couch watching.. and am grinning from ear to ear... Congrats on a fantastic find!!!!
Thanks for allowing us to share in this...
It's what we all dream of when we get a beep from our detectors. What a super great find and video! Thanks for showing us. Wow!
That is an excellent video for several reasons:
1.) A truly sweet old cache!
2.) a beautiful container.
3.) the spontaneity of being "in" at the discovery.
Thanks for sharing that perfect video.
I wish you continued success!
Sometimes I'm speachless at finds like this. Great job...
that is the BEST detecting video I have seen on youtube, I could FEEL the excitement and could not take my eyes off the video! congrats
Well Done! I once found a cache of coins in a dirtbasement in old house, 2 barbers quarters, 1 barber half, 2 walkers, 2 ben franklins,5 kennedys,8 morgan dollars, 4 peace. I know how it feels, once in a lifetime ....Congrats on some old silvers ! Happy Hunting !
Where in the old basement would you say you found it? In a corner, in a center, some other location? I have permission to do a dirt basement and I’m hoping there’s a rhyme or reason to where people would hide stuff. Thank you so much! And congratulations.
absolutely amazing! you full on found somebody's life savings. I am way more curious as to why the person (or family) decided to hide all their money in the ground like that. Each one of those coins was considered such an amazing amount of money even back in their own time, from the 1820's and even all throughout the following 130-140 years afterward! Very encouraging to someone like me, all my love for American history and digging at large, often aimlessly, haha. Congrats!
Wow! This is why I keep begging my husband to do old property instead of parks. Great job! And yes... you can tell its real. It would be nice to ever find out who could have owned it.
Never get tired of watching this video, always gives me inspiration to get off the computer and go metal detecting.
It's videos like this one, that prompted me to order my first metal detector! I just ordered a Minelab X-Terra 705 and it will be here on Monday. I am definitely pumped to delve as deeply into this hobby as possible, in hopes of finding something even half as cool as your find. I am from Illinois and I am hoping that I will come across some interesting sites to dig. Only time will tell. Best wishes and keep on diggin!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a find! Leaves me just about speechless with awe - sure wish i could hunt that place with you!
Congrats Mike, this find is every detectorist dream.
Maaaan this is just what its all about now isn't it? You just never know what you are going to find! Congrats man, all these years I bet you still haven't topped it?? Haha
I’m curious if you have topped it yet either? I’m glad I found your channel today!
This is a really nice find. The initials on the box are interesting.
Lovely Find ,I Think The Silver Box Was a Beauty Just By Itself.Well done:)
I saw your posting.You do have a valid point.I don't have a metal detector yet,just ordered one.I've seen many,many videos on youtube of people finding old coins and to tell you the truth they all appeared to be in fair condition,many worn down.I can't understand how they all got worn down so much.One would think they'ed be in fine to extra fine condition.I'm not talking about clad coins,older coins like these.I hardly see any older coins in fine condition.Don't understand it.
Greatest metal detecting video i have ever seen,watched it over and over again,it gives me the chills,makes me want to go out hunting.!!!
i think i was shaking too just watching this ,great job guys and gal. hope there's more out there for you
That hole looked deep... and, by chance, I just picked up a Cibola myself..
Thanks for Sharing this Great Video!..
Congrats, on a great find. Just imagine the possible travels those coins were on, the things they bought, the debts they paid, the fights they started, only about 150 years ago.
Great job in shooting the video, keeping the camera close and still and taking care to show everything slowly. Damn, now I got to buy a metal detector.
Find of a lifetime, for sure,great to share this moment
My hometown buried a commercially built time capsule in 1976 and dug it up in 2001, when they opened the thing it had water and dirt in it and all the paper documents were pretty much ruined. It was supposed to be air and water tight but apparently the seals they used from the 70's were not all they claimed they were. Its not hard to imagine dirt leaking into a container like this with every rain that came down for over a hundred years and completely filling it full of plain old dirt.
Find of a lifetime........Congratulations...Outstanding
None of the coins were a rare date, but the find as whole is a great find! Mike did keep those, he keeps all his finds and it will be in a book we are publishing due out next year on Relics of Coastal South Carolina and Georgia, The Civil War Years.
that is the best cache ive ever seen found!!!truely awesome ...i want to find one too!!!great find!!!!!keep on diggin....
BIG CONGRATS MIKE!! This is one of the all time greats in my book! WOOHOO!!!
Dude started shaking when the coins were revealed, (that tells me it was really filmed live) awesome find, thanks for sharing it.
As someone who is about to drop a grand on a new detector,i wish you would give me a little bit of that experienced wisdom as to where to look for good sites!
I think it was a later deposite ... not war period some of the 1860s coins are worn flat.... very odd assortment. either way great find and the box is really cool! way to go mikie! thanks for posting rick!!
matt
This is by far the best find I have ever seen on RUclips. Congratulations, sir. I am now going to dream of this for months to come. WOW.
The guy that found the cache still owns it. Like me, he does not sell items he finds, he diplays and shares them for educational purposes,
We got permission about a year later to return to the site. Though the are was riddle with Civil War action, we did find a turn of the century (around 1900's) housesite about 500 yards from that area we awere pounding. My guess is those occupants had buried it in a field for safekeeping and who knows the rest of the story.
I didn't read all of the comments, but the first thing I noticed was digging through the box with a sharp knife....you can turn a $500 coin into a $50 coin real quck with that...not sure about the tooth brush because I'm not a metal detectorist, but am a coin guy. Great Find!!! Just try to leave the knife in the sheath next score buddy.
questo è il ritrovamento piu' bello che ho visto con il metal........
complimenti il video è gia' nei miei preferiti
ciao
I went metal detecting today and only found an 1989 dime and 6 nails on my property. Great find!!!
Very nice find! I was wondering how a belt buckle would get that far deep in the ground. Seeing it was a small cache of coins, I wonder if it was buried there purposefully. I'd research the property too to see if the initials at the bottom of the container matched a previous landowner from that era. Just for historical documentation of course! Finders keepers!
ANybody with exp with detecting can plainly see this is a real dig.Congrats guys
That's really great! Once I found a motherlode of New Jersey currency circa 1780's, in a field near the NY/NJ state line. It was spread all around in a farmers field. They were well worn and the dates were barely legible.
Were they lost coins or intentionally planted in your opinion? Were they all together? Congratulations.
Don't listen to haters like them, they are just pissed and extremely jealous that they have not found an AWESOME cache such as yours my friend. Keep up the good work and keep saving that history. HH.
Great video of a great time, finding a cache (or hoard as we say in england) is a rare & special time that gets everyone excited, well done & good luck.
If anyone started metal detecting because of this, or any dream of treasure, you can better stop because this is a once in a lifetime moment ;) Ive been detecting for 2 years now (in Holland), only found 4 silver coins. You need lots of patience to be a good metal detectorist!
Greetings from Holland :)
congratulations Mike, I would have been happy just finding the box, but all those coins that kept coming out were definatly a plus
Wow...that container was really nice when it was cleaned up. I always like finding a large group of coins like that. I have never found so many or so old in one spot.
Dall'Italia... Bellissimo ritrovamento. Complimenti!!!!!
Wow! What a amazing find, besides the coins the box is gorgeous itself. I just ordered a metal detector yesterday and seeing videos like this makes me even more anxious to start hunting. I live in the Dust bowl area so plenty of people buried their money during the depression of the 30s. Though I anticipate finding many of the bane of hunters, pull tabs. XD
Hey, Mr. Phillips. I'm David from So. Oregon.
I was detecting where this '20's or so house was razed. Found about 135 new cents, mostly zinc, all in one area about 10' X 10'.
Imagine my surprise when out popped a quarter. I saw Ms. Liberty sittin' there. I got woozy. It's an 1870. I see "CC" and think, "Carson City? This is gonna be a couple hundred $ coin!" Get home. Sittin on da john looking at Red Book. "$17,000!" Got offered $13,500 from coin store.
True story. Happened last July. Auction!!!
Congratulations! Have you found anything good like that since? I just found this video. It’s an oldie but goodie!
Really nice find, guys! Those coins saw some USE, probably just before the Civil War!
Why would someone give this a thumbs down? Awesome video guys!!! Thanks!
Dude what a blessing. Im think-en of get-ten into this hobby. I jusr be happy if I find a few pieces of history.
I first watched this about 5 or 6 years ago, and this is by far my favorite md video.
Thank you....it sure was fun! I thought I was called to film a buckle coming out of the ground...that was a lot more fun to watch and film! Hope you find yours!
I was smiling and breathing heavy through the whole video...outstanding!!!
Actually, we made a return trip to the site at the beginning of this year and found a house site a few hundred yards away from where the cache was found. The relics from the site dates it to around the late 1800's to the early 1900's so that would explain the extreme wear to the coins if that is who cached it.
I beg to differ sir! Number one, silver does not rust to each other! Number two , that was a solid silver snuff box which even had silver hinge pins. It is the belief of an antiquarian who examined it, that snuff box may date from the mid to late 1700's and is probably worth more the the combined value of the coins. I wish it were me that dug it, but I was honored to be present when he did dig it and be a part of revealing the contents. Heck, we thought it was a belt plate of some sort at first
Wow, that's the stuff dreams are made of! Congratulations on your incredible find!
That is what puzzled us too. It looks about 20 years post or so with the wear. What was nice was that the box was solid silver, including the hinges which made it easy to open as compared to if it had iron hinges.
That was like watching a fantasy play out in real life. Congrats to you and also thank you for capturing this monumental moment on video.
We in Serbia find coins of 20,21,22,23 centuries old. These are coins barely 200 years old, that's nothing
Congrat! What a great find, I am very happy for you. Thank you for posting.
David
Congratulations Sir, I have a Bounty Hunter ( tracker IV 4)...I hope one day have same good luck like Your...hugs from Texas...!!!
How exciting. It makes me want to start metal detecting. I live close to bellamy rd, the first rd ever built in Fl, I have thought about all the wagon and early americans traveling down it. And on my land there been found indian artifacts.
Amazing. Congrats. You kept your composer well.
This video is my 1st video i seen on metal detecting and made me want to do it now i am into it full time
Now that had to be a heart stopper!!!! Would love to see your story on that!
what a find!!!!!! a dream come true!!!!!!! thanks for posting!!!!
...I live in an area that was settled in the early 1800's,even had a civil war battle fought just a few miles from my house. Yet,when i try to find information on this or locations of old schools and such at my local library.I come up empty. I know all of these finds you see here on YT are a result of a great deal of home work but,it's kinda hard to do any home work when you cant find any study guides!
awesome guys wtg, that is what we all hope for geeez it was just nice watching you pull the coins out for the first time thanks for sharing all our dreams.....
thats a find of a life time. amazing, the best thing I ever have found was a crappy condition liberty penny.
this is one of the best videos i honestly ever seen this really gets me excited because i took up a new hobby of investing in silver bullion and coins and i wanted to take up metal detecting as well come spring and this really gets me anxious for spring to arrive even though winter has just begun lol anyways thanks so much for posting it
wow!!!!!! what a find.. the box has to have sum great vaule also!!!
What a spectacular find! I was excited for you as I watched the video!
Awesome find if I had found something similar here on England I would have been smiling for weeks!
That was incredible to watch, but I was cringing every time he picked up that dang knife!
Great cache find!!!
Awesome find! WoW! Be sure you double check the same area? Always, re-check the area after a "find" since we often overlook as we are doing back hand springs!
-- Fellow Treasure Hunter
well im detecting really often and i found huge depot from 15th century in few ceramic cups, all of these silver coins have had blue-green layer except gold ones, they almost didnt come into contact with the soil. if i found coin from 17th century, it had the same oxide layer, if i found younger austrian-hungarian silver coins, they didnt have any oxide layers, only dirt or anything but of course it depends on the composition and soil moisture
That is so awesome this is the kind of thing we all hunt for and most of us never find congratulations my friend
Lucky find! both on the coins and the case! Lovely bunch of things!
Awesome find!!! That silver case in which those coins were stored is much more interesting as its content ;)
Awesome video and find!!! Congrats and thanks for sharing this.
Does no one else find it strange that the case was dead center of the hole and the shovel didn't pry it loose in any way?Hmmm...he dug down 2 feet and happened to just clear away the dirt enough to expose the top...good technique!
That was an amazing find!! What a piece of history...
Wow . . that's a find of a lifetime !!! What's the worth ? That question can only be answered when you actually go out and do it . . .
cant believe how many people bitching about how he handled HIS find. hell he found it,he can do what he wants and how he wants.go find your own own cache of coins and do as you would.cant we all just be happy for this guy? GONGRATS!!! on the find and thanks for sharing!
OUTSTANDING!!!.. congrats, inspiration to me to buy my 1st detector
That 56 seated half looks especially beautiul. Silver does great even in the ground.
Beautiful rescue! Thats really a great find, im glad it was found. Keepem all together! WOW
Awesome! I hope for a cache like that someday! Congrats!
they were wishing for Gold also, and there was none.
All seemed kosher to me! Good Vid.
That was exciting find !!! Thanks for sharing that with us...
I know Scott Foss. This is a great video! thanks for sharing,
i find a knife perfect for digging out and scrapping stuff. congrats on a great find . well done
I got excited watching this! Great find and awesome that you captured it!
I live in Bakersfield ca. Around here you got to keep your eye out for any place to hunt. I drive around searching for spots, but if your not on top of it you will lose all the good finds most of the time. Though I have found some good stuff, it just harder to come across in this town and surrounding communities. I have met some good people and I been detecting for 16 years and its just great to view this video for inspiration. Just dont keep that detector in the house, get out and use it.ZipZip
Good find guys!! I would of been screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!
unreal what a great find congrats with that once in a lifetime find wow great video
look to be 1860's ? ah, a little earlier. stupendous find. I have found $100,000.00 to date but never thought to document any. 99% was before youtube, back to the late 1960's.
Great find dude her in the uk we go after roman Celtic and hammered coins had some great stuff in my time such as hammered gold Celtic gold and 1 roman gold I used minelab sovereign elite great machine 1 point though lose the knife u should have taken them home and soaked in water great vid
i love at the end when he is putting al of the coins in that guys hands, and you(or who ever was behind the camera) offered your hand, and he gave you the dirt from the container XD
"Cool, 100 year old dirt! :D"
you can make them even more clean by using a tooth brush + hot water. Dry with a regular cloth. Then you should even bring back the shine to some of them! The blackness should at least dissapear. I just received a tip to clean them easily but unconfirmed. (place in a cup or something similar some silver foil, the kitchen stuff, then place the coins in that need cleaning, Put hot boiled water in it and add kitchen salt. Leave it for a while and they should be clean. But that's unconfirmed atm)
Wow man, great job, that really is a beautiful sight to see. congrats and good luck on the next one!