house teardown

[BillF]

Hit the yard of a house that was still standing this morning. There were plugs all over the yard, but inside every plug was a coin. This was an old house but I didn't find one silver coin or wheat.
I did pick up a handful of pennies,dimes and nickels. Plus a brooch and 3 RINGS!
Not bad for a little over an hour. Maybe there's silver coins here yet, maybe someone got them before me. The coins in the plugs have me baffled, but what the hey! Its probably why they missed the (did I say it already?) 3 RINGS!

 

[BillF]

After cleaning the rings up, I cant find any makers marks. They are very thin and worn and almost look to be the same size.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Just from what I can see in the pic the $ ring looks like it could be silver. The top ring I'll bet is alum. I've found a few that looks just like it. I would say the person that was there before you took the clad quarters and old coins and left the other clad.

 

[mapper65]

I'd say the two bottom rings could be 925 but I'd have to agree with Mark about the one on top. Looks like it's a harder metal.

 

[BillF]

The top ring came out nice and shiney gold, but my guess is its probably plated. The one with the $ sign is silver and the other is ???. Feels like silver. I don't care, it was nice having them pop out.
This lot is in an area that I have been hitting alot. Most every place I've been to has evidence of someone getting there before me and yet there seems to always be coins in the holes. Or, as in the case of one lot 2 blocks away, 5 rings and a small assortment of pre-1900 coins. Why dig then not retrieve what you bent over and dug for? It doesn't make sense.
I'm sure you're right. They cherry picked the better coins. Hopefully they left a little something for me.

 

[7centsworth]

Ring no matter if they are real or not are super finds in my book. Congratulations.

 

[BillF]

Thanks Travis.
BTW, got the coins yesterday. Thank you.

 

[BillF]

Went back this afternoon. Still no wheats or anything of any age but managed 8 dimes,3 nickels, 1 quarter, a bunch of pennies and 2 more rings.

 

[Digdoggy]

I don't get it. Hole left there and all have coins left in them. I'm not doubting you. I'm trying to figure what or how much discrimination the previous digger was using. Is the area just thick with coins? Then like you say he cherry picked. I do that for quarters and leave the dime and penny signals at my 1970's built school. Never hit silver there and I used to dig the dimes. Never hit one piece of jewelry so that tells me its been hit by a decent hunter and I'm getting the clad that's dropped since he or they gave up. I'm thinking that way anyway. But I think to hit silver I need to find older schools of coarse.

 

[bob.oz]

Keep putting the coil to the dirt...that's a promising spot.

 

[BillF]

Seriously, every plug still had a coin in the hole. Most were zincs or copper pennies but either they couldn't locate the target or when it was a penny, they left it. Their was and may still be a ton of coins here. If the plug leaver is that good to pick the silver out of here, why didn't they pick up the 5 rings?
Right now its just soft silty dirt covering the lot. It fills my shoes up and doesn't seem worth hitting much for now with nothing old showing in my pouch. After the wild grass grows in a little I'll try some more.
And, your school doesn't necessarily need to be older. Who knows what was there before or where they got their dirt from. Every school here is modern but there were schools on the same grounds as early as 1880.
HH & GL