We found lots of coins in that old house...My sister found a pre-1900 Morgan doller behind a set of built in cabinets my dad was removing...and we also found a 1900 Barber Dime and Liberty Head "V" nickel in the back yard along with countless "wheat" pennies and Buffalo nickels...infact, by dad purchased a metal detector to really discover what was in the yard...and wouldn't you know it...we didn't find much else...
Sounds like a story I heard a few years back. Fellow purchased ten acres down in the gold fields area of Calif, near highway 49.
Started digging out what was to be the basement of his new house.
Bumped into about 24 ozs of gold at the time.
Rented a backhoe, went to work tearing up the rest of his ten acres, and never found a nickle's worth more of gold.