Old coffee can at 16" down, inside was...

[Doc Holliday]

Out in the desert yesterday when my detector screamed at me to stop and dig. It was deep, about 14"-16" down...an old coffee can. My mind raced for a second...what's an old coffee can doing way out here, and what's inside? I remembered all the gold coins in California that were found.

Stay calm, stay calm...dig that baby out. Down in the dirt, not caring about my clothes at that point.

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Finally got the whole thing out....
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But...sometimes an old coffee can is just an old coffee can...dang it...
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I DID find a weird rock that hit as metal....shows a silver color when scratched...don't know what it is...non-magnetic...
Anyone have some ideas on this one?
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...and an old bullet...
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All dig holes properly backfilled, of course.

 

[Snap On Man]

At the price of coffee if it had been full that would have been a good find!

 

[gonzo1968]

Wow, that is great that you get readings that deep. What detector are you using. I am having issues with mine in the desert. Where are you located?

 

[Doc Holliday]

Well it was deep, but it was also a big target, my BH QD Pro definitely locked on and howled at me with that one.

 

[BillF]

Back in the 70s my fathers friend had an old farmhouse.
His place was the scene of a holdout between the sheriffs posse and 2 bank robbers that robbed the Dishman National bank in the 20s. The robbers got away with a few thousand in notes and gold and silver.
When finally captured, there was no money to be found.
My fathers friend figured that the robbers were able to make it to the well and stash the cash.
So, one night my dad called and said to bring my detector up, we were going to hunt for the money. I crawled down in the well and started searching the walls. About 4 feet down I got a killer signal.
We dug through that concrete hard pan from the outside of the well for a couple of hours, thinking of all the stuff we could buy with the loot. What we found was........



An old shovelhead. And not of the Harley Davidson variety.
The human imagination is a wonderful thing isn't it?

 

[Goldstrike]

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IT COULD HAVE BEEN THIS!!​

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I never give up hoping to find a container of buried gold or silver coins so keep hoping and detecting!

 

[After-1-]

Doc, I can relate to the excitement and to find nothing.-------------------- Goldstrike, ---Wow--------------after1-----------

 

[Goldstrike]

This pic is from the Saddle Ridge hoard where that couple living up Northern California were walking their dog and found about 8 buried coffee cans with $10,000,000 plus worth of gold coins! DANG...Now why couldn't that have been me?lol!

 

[Maxwedge]

A friend and I detected 2 steel cans in the hollow of a tree but they were empty.Always wondered??????? The excitement though was great.HH-Mark

 

[After-1-]

Was the dog a Golden Retriver??????----------after1------

 

[senda]

He had permission to the backyard of an old house over 200 years.
I found a signal, 20 centimeters deep. very strong. I removed the earth. There it was, the handle on the top of a small pot.
Below will be the pot? ... A pot full of coins?
I kept digging very carefully and ... it was only the top of the pot.
I had five minutes of wonderful adrenaline overdose.
Thank you for your stories.

 

[mcb613]

The metal lloks aluminum. I have seen aluminum melted into blocks by fire. Is it heavy or just moderate weight? Heavy may be silver.

 

[supertraq]

I agree aluminium, said the way British say it,lol