best way to bury silver coins

Well, don't use rubber tape, which is typically loaded with sulfur, and will quickly degrade underground. Silicone tape might hold up better, but I'd lean more toward a glass container with a wax or Teflon seal. I'd even purge the container with dry nitrogen, but I'm geeky that way.

 

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Mighty Fixit tape actually IS silicone tape......I was trying to describe the tape and should have said rubbery instead of rubber.

 

In a "survivalist" mode, it's a good idea to cache PM, ammo, food and other supplies at various locations. It's consodered by some to be a form of insurance.

 

I find these types of responses odd.

You mention that your wife's grandfather was in the German army during WWII and went to great lengths to not become a Nazi. To me, that suggests that he did have an inkling of what the Nazis were up to and didn't want any part of it. Why would you be offended that someone said such a thing?

...and just for the record, my wife's grandfather was also in the Germany army during WWII and is still MIA.

Perhaps you and carl1949 just don't quite understand what the word "inkling" means:

inkling: "a slight understanding or vague idea or notion"

It is often confused with inclination: "a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference"

When cesariojpn said "So Gramps had inklings of the Nazi's eh?", he wasn't saying Gramps had a liking or preference for the Nazis, but rather that he knew what was going on. Just because you have a distant relative by marriage that was involved in WWII, do not jump to conclusions and assume that whenever someone uses the word Nazi, that they are "slinging slurs".

 

The Romans buried their coins.

That is why there are so many around thousands of years later.

 

Well said in our world of jumping to Political Correctness Confusion Conclusion...........

.............i'm gonna "coin" that term by the way......PCCC

 

Place the coins in a plastic coin tube we store stock in. Then you can enclose that in saran wrap or a sandwich bag. Get a piece of PVC pipe threaded on both ends and 2 pipe caps that fit. Put the wrapped coins in the pipe.

Now bury this pretty deep, A couple of feet, at least. After you start filling the hole about 12" above the pipe toss in a bunch of scrap metal. Aluminum cans will work if you smash them tightly.
6" above that, do it again. Plant a thorny shrub like a rose bush at the top of the hole.

Hopefully, the bush will mark the spot and deter really close inspection by unwanted visitors. Next the junk metal while pinging a metal detector might fool anyone who starts digging. The 2nd batch of metal should convince them they found a scrap pile.
Last, you should mark the location and place that map in a safe deposit box that will be opened by your heirs after your demise. Be a shame to bury the Silver and have it lost forever.

There are methods of placing booby traps to protect your stash, but that's going a bit overboard. IMHO

 

I've thought about doing this too. Bury a bunch of coins and make a gold old fashioned treasure map for my grandkids.

I wouldn't put them in my back yard because who knows what will happen to my back yard (a utility company might come and trenches a new line in without warning) or if it will even belong to anyone in my family 30 years from now. Instead, we are virtually surrounded by national forest land, state forest land, BLM land, etc. That's where I'd bury something. Make my grandkids get off their duffs if they want to find my treasure!

 

Absolutely, and without a doubt, the best place you can bury your silver is in my back yard.

 

Then you have neither a good memory nor an imagination...

 

1. Bury gold not silver, silver will decompose after eons.
2. Find a good sized boulder and cut in half.
3. Hollow out inside of boulder.
4. Machine boulder halves to a close fitting tolerance.
5. Place gold into a smaller glass container and seal with desicant inside.
6. Place gold container inside hollowed out boulder.
7. Place desicant and antrax spores, around inside of hollowed boulder.
8. Put boulder halves together and seal with concrete.

OK... so thats how I bury my gold !!!! :dead-horse:

 

safety deposit box

 

Technically, that isn't a way to "bury" something, so doesn't really qualify as an option for "the best way to bury silver coins".

A SDB is indeed a good way to store coins, as long as everything is right in your part of the world. Sometimes, when things aren't right, a SDB would be the worst place to store them. Perhaps the OP has a good reason to not store them in an SDB and has already concluded that he has a need to bury them. Given the age of this thread, maybe he already has.

 

Would be interesting to know.
My guess is the girl friend is gone.
He got married and had a kid then sold all his silver to pay for diapers and baby formula, ha ha...



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when you are done, please let me metal detect the area.

Just for a test, okay?

 

I've told this story before....

my Grandfather was notorious for hiding his cash. Not just in multiple banks in various towns, under different names but also buried or hidden in spots around his extensive farm.

He told no one where it was hidden. All he said was that he had done that. After he passed away, the family tried to find it so his estate could be looked after. Very little was actually found. Even up to a few years ago (he passed away in the 70's) the new owners of the farm would find stashes of rotted money while tilling up the old fields. He must have buried some near fence posts which were later removed.

This didn't help my Grandmother at all not knowing where any of the family's money was.

So, if you're going to bury it, make sure you leave some notice (like in a SDB) that shows where it is.

 

If using safe deposit boxes, anonymity is impossible because of W. C. Fields.

http://www.bankingquestions.com/safedepositboxes/q_renting.html

 

For junk silver, it doesn't matter if the "elements" get to them, even a bit of moisture. Witness the condition of the silver coins you occasionally dig up, totally unprotected, with a metal detector.

Personally, depending on where you live, I like the idea, provided (1) you have five or six caches, not just one, and (2) you keep QUIET about it.

The bigger problem is where (and how) to hide the map(s).

Treasure-hunting magazines are full of stories about old guys, from the Civil War to the Depression, who buried (or were strongly rumored to have buried) coins, the heirs have spent thousands "looking," and nothing yet, but we know it's there someplace.

Right now, I'd guess a 3% chance that someday the government will attempt to confiscate gold; silver, probably not, there's too much of it around, and the logistics would be very costly.

edit//wrote this before I saw ikandiggit's post, which confirms some of my points exactly. BTW, junk gold (like scratched or blemished Eagles) isn't affected at all by the "elements."

 

Very interesting. I learn something new every day...

 

A few tips for treasure hunters;

If you are searching old farmsteads, a good place to look is halfway between the back door and the outhouse. Pioneers seldom buried valuables DEEP; they hid them where they could get in and out in a hurry. The "path" was a high-traffic location where any evidence of disturbing the earth was gone overnight. Another good area is the animal barnyard. Cows, horses, pigs, geese, and ducks set up quite a racket when an intruder, 2- or 4-foot, comes around. A third place, the chimney; often the only thing standing after a fire, and, too hot to mess with much of the time. Finally, a shortened fence post (the part below ground, shortened, that is), supported by the wire, that can be quickly lifted up, a poke put in or taken out, and seconds later, no trace. If you see an ancient fence row, with just one post broken or lying down, check it out; it's the short post that gave out long before the others.

If you find bottlecaps, nuts and bolts, etc., stick them in your pocket; it doesn't hurt to be able to tell a pesky cop that you are improving the public safety and following environmental guidelines. Also offer to help the cops search a crime scene for missing bullets or "unknown" evidence; there's no better partner in treasure-hunting than a cop. Carry a canteen on a pistol belt; that suggests you're a veteran, which never hurts, and a single valuable find can be dropped inside, where it is unlikely to be found or confiscated or discovered. Put some tapioca in the canteen, then a coin won't rattle or move around.

Good hunting! Been there and done that...