1870's train car spills gold and silver coins

[Rob O Mighty]

I have some questions I need help with.

1 Under normal circumstances how far down would they be?

2 Using a fisher F- 70 what would the gold coins regester at? For a
$1
$2.5
$5
$10
$20

3 Can the F70 get down deep enough?

One of the guys I work with, his mother found 5 gold coins when she was a young girl, 65 years ago.
I reserched the train crash on micro fish at the library and verified it did occur. The news paper from then didnt say it was a coin car.
Anyone have any ideas.

 

[jim tn]

Rob, coins are being found every day from the 1600, 1700 and 1800's, so unless they were covered up in some fashion, they should be detectable.

Per T D, gold coins with the F 75 read as follows.

$1.00-----26
2.1/2-----41
5.00------52
10.00-----61
20.00-----69

HH jim tn

 

[Rob O Mighty]

Thanks Jim.
Those readings are they an air test or in the dirt? have you ever found a gold coin with your F75 and did it read as you indicated?

 

[mudpuppy]

Have you gone to the spot for a look? It might be all paved over or something..too many open ended questions as far as depth and tones...I better come over and help, tell you what, PM me and I will be there most urgently and we will get this place excavated and all cleaned up! That's the only idea I have at the moment. Really, on something like this, its probably best you keep it to yourself, and go have a sweep...gold does funny stuff to most people, self included, and on this open forum some dope might snipe you bad, and that would really frost your biscuit huh? If its a valid tip, you don't want to be sharing too much here...I once drove 300 miles to clean sweep a penny pile in a totlot Elton mentioned...just for the challenge, and I hate too see any coin go to waste, let alone a gold one! So I can imagine there are other manufacturer user reprobates reading this right now trying to figure out where you are talking about. If its a pie in the sky wild goose chase, well, at least you had a good time dreaming and then researching and hunting...you ARE going to find something! It might be nothing more than a RR spike, or it might be a PPot full of gold coins.. I will say this..if you go and start finding gold coins, don't be a greedy SOB, get back on here and PM a few of the old fellows on this forum and invite them up for a hunt so they can at least find ONE gold coin for all the effort and help they've been to us and the sport over the years...I don't qualify, so leave me out of it, but hell, I'd be happy just sitting there in the shade watching y'all.!. Really great post Rob!
Mud

 

[Rob O Mighty]

Thanks Mud.

I'm being very generic with the date and not mentioning the town or what the article stated.
there is more to the story that has been left out that verifies the authenticity of the site, and no Its not paved over.
Well most of it isn't paved over,
Thanks again.

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[jim tn]

Rob, I suspect air test, but don't know for a fact. No, have never dug a U S gold coin. With what sounds like pretty good info, I would be in all metal and digging every beep for a while. Go get em, and watch your back. HH jim tn

 

[Rob O Mighty]

thanks Jim

 

[ez4sure]

wow i would be there digging everyday, those numbers could be a little lower in the ground i would dig every signal that pinpointes good hope you find one hh

 

[shilohwig]

bout 7 inches deep

 

[mncricket]

Wow! And to think....I get excited when I find a dime......

 

[shilohwig]

i was crazy and when i calmed down went back to hunting and found a us boxplate 10 inches away

 

[Foggy]

Great story Rob, get sweeping and please show us the results!
regards
Foggy

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Problem is hunting near train tracks as lots of junk in the area along with mineralization...Personally wouldn't worry about numbers ...disc. to low foil for the 1 buck to start with and if it beeps dig it......