Coin spill or a kid buried?

[dmckee17]

Went detecting today and found two ""stacks" of of old pennies about 4"- 5" deep (15 feet apart). One stack was 5 pennies: 1905,1910,1917,1918,1923. The other stack was 2 pennies:1919,1919. I have found a couple other stacks before and was wondering how? It seems a pocket spill would be more scattered or random? I'm guessing a kid buried his loot while playing in the yard? I don't know but does anyone else run across this?

 

[Desert_Rat]

I found a 5 wheats in one spill but not stacked, all within 4" of each other. I also have found a penny and when I pulled it out of the hole there was a nickel right behind it. Nice Find

 

[Craig]

I have run across similar coin stacks but just considered them a coin drop ! But now that you brought it up, I remember as a kid back in the 1950's burying pennies all over my back yard. Then forgetting about them, until I mistakenly digging them up again while playing.
I should go by that house and ask permission to hunt, as the house was built in the 1880's. Just got to be a lot of old coins there waiting to be dug up

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Coins would be more scattered on a coin spill and once found a whole roll of pennies partially stuck together with most of the casing rotted off...so imagine could be several scenarios to explain the find..

 

[slingshot]

Had to check this post out. I was imagining a dug hole with arms and feet showing and the face of a kid's body!

 

[David]

Yes back in Babe Ruth's days, a kids 'lemonade stand hoard' from the late 1920's or 1930's.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/l/lemonade_stand.asp

 

[silversmith]

Imagine a chain smoker, sitting in a folding chair, fishing his Zippo out of his front, right pocket, every few minutes. I think that's where a lot of coin piles come from.

 

[fowlercharles]

Timer's overalls? I have found a couple of old silver(Barber 1/2, 1/4 ,nickle & penny) spills over the years that were likely just that. If you ever wear overalls (many of us still do) when digging in the woods, take notice next time you are about "doing your business", where that front pocket full of goodies will go if not tended to properly. Any Old Timer caught in a bind and having a bad moment may not have had time to tend to that front pocket with the business at hand calling for speed of the utmost. You know how "stuff happens" sometimes. I also remember working some old areas back when "urban renewal"was taking place and I found coins , tax tokens and all manner of stuff literally stacked on top of one another on top of the ground where it had been shoved through a crack in the floor. Found 4 V Nickels all within 4-5 " of one another. Also a whole heap of anticeptic bottles (all corkers) laying together under where the house had been. "Those were the days"!