I have read several stories of people accidentally finding buried or hidden coin stashes in their house walls, cellars, and in their backyards. One story I recall from a friend is he was digging footers for a new barn where an old barn used to sit. As he dug along a corner of where the old barn use to sit, they dug up a mason jar of old silver coins.

Another story is closer to home because it involves my dad and when I was a child. He new an old man and his family, and the old man buried and hid coins in Mason jars all over his property. He made a map of each location and left it for his children when he died.

His children found almost all of the stash, but couldn’t find the jars buried in the backyard. So they called my dad (He is a local coin dealer) to bring his metal detector and try to find it. They said they where selling the house and he could keep anything he found because they new he and their old man has many dealings together.

Dad was allowed a viewing of the map, and the next day commenced detecting. He got several reads, but each time he dug, he kept hitting metal pipes. After an hour or so of futile digging he gave up. Later, a bulldozer uncovered the remaining stash as it went below the pipes to remove the old plumbing. The dover clipped the tops off of several jars filled with silver coins!

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