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Buried Coins Sealed in Wax Recovered During an Oklahoma Hidden-Money Search

  • from Norman (Oklahoma, United States)

No map. No notes. Just a general area where a father might have buried money.

After their father passed away, a family began clearing out his belongings and discovered that he had a knack for hiding valuables in creative places throughout the home. Those discoveries raised another question: could there be more hidden inside—or buried in the backyard?

Crys and I helped search both.

Inside the home, we examined potential hiding places for concealed cash and other valuables. Our search equipment includes a remote inspection camera that lets us look through accessible openings into wall cavities and other tight, hard-to-reach spaces.

Outside, we systematically grid-searched the backyard for possible buried valuables. That search led to something we had never encountered before: a buried cache of coins sealed in a block of wax.

The wax-covered coins shown in these photos came from the backyard. Other items were recovered during the search inside the home. Across both areas, thousands of dollars in cash and coins were recovered.

Every recovery is different, and this one was a reminder that sometimes the clues begin with a person’s habits rather than a precise location.

To protect the family’s privacy and security, we are not identifying the owner, sharing the property location, or showing all the findings.

Need help searching for hidden money, buried coins, or lost valuables in Oklahoma?

Whether you are settling an estate, following up on a family story, or searching for a recently lost ring, contact me to discuss what you know and how we might help.

Derik Keith | Ring & Relic Recovery
Call or text: 405-255-2274
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Serving Oklahoma, with world travel considered for recovery projects farther afield.

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Buried Coins Recovered – Cary!

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)

I was contacted by a gentleman who needed help in locating some buried treasure on his property. (OK, you have my attention, tell me the rest of the story.) It turns out that he had placed some valuable coins in a 6″ diameter PVC pipe and buried the pipe vertically in the rear of his property. He said the cap on the top of the pipe was 4 or 5 inches below the surface. (So far so good, but here’s where it gets interesting.) The cap and the pipe are PVC, so I can’t pick them up with my detector. The coins by themselves would have been easy to detect, but he said that because of the length of the pipe, the coins were at least 18-24″ below the top of the pipe, making them 22-28″ below the surface. Yikes! I have a detector that can go that deep, but this is a neighborhood and the electrical interference from all the houses was considerable. After a slow scan of the area where he believed the coins were buried, I got two very faint signals on the detector and brought out my 4′ metal probe to check out these two possibilities by poking down in the ground and feeling for disturbed soil. Once the detector had given me an idea on where to probe, I was able to locate the PVC pipe fairly quickly.

The first picture is a portion of the coins that were inside the pipe. After he sent me the picture of the coins, I could see why he was so anxious to get them back!

If you have valuable items buried and can’t locate them, I can help. Contact me and we’ll figure out a plan.

Pottsboro, Tx – Her Father buried $300,000 in the backyard, Did we Find it All?

  • from Dallas (Texas, United States)
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We got a call from Alberta, Canada from a very nice lady named Heidi, she said that her father had passed and that she was the executor of the estate in Pottsboro, Texas.  She said her father was a Prepper and a Horder.  He had left her an envelope with instructions on where he had buried up to $300,000 in silver coins in his backyard.

The family was able to find and dig up up what they believed at the time was all of the PVC Tubes with the coins from the yard.  But they were concerned that maybe there were others buried in the yard someplace.  They just wanted to be sure before selling the property.

So she ask us to scan the property to be sure nothing was left and to reopen all the PVC tubes that they knew about to be sure everything had been removed, and it had.

It was 95 degrees on Fathers Day morning at 8am to do our search.  We searched the entire backyard and then dug up the PVC Tubes where the known coins had been found.  It was thrilling to think that so much in coins had been buried there.  It really was like digging for buried treasure.

It was a great day and another satisfied customer for the Dallas Ring Finders…