Coins are hidden in historically significant places. We make great efforts to conceal them in a way that allows them to be easily found by someone looking for them (but not by accident). They are always hidden in areas open to the general public, and no admission, purchase, or special access is necessary.
If you find a coin, congratulations! We ask that coins be limited to one per household each season. If you missed out, there is another chance each Saturday & Sunday in October! Please have fun & be respectful of your fellow coin hunters!
Sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum.
2025 Coin Hunt Schedule:
1. Saturday, October 4th: FOUND! At the Richard More homestead marker on the current property of the Lydia Pinkham Memorial Clinic.
2. Sunday, October 5th: FOUND! At Tuckers Wharf at the Salem Maritime Historic Site.
3. Saturday, October 11th: FOUND! At the Captain William Driver memorial stone.
4. Sunday, October 12th: FOUND! At Swiniuch Park.
5. Saturday, October 18th: FOUND! At the colonial revival garden behind the Derby house.
6. Sunday, October 19th: FOUND! At what was once 27 Union Street, the site of Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace home (before it was moved to the House of the Seven Gables campus in 1958).
7. Saturday, October 25th: FOUND! At the Remond Family plaque at Hamilton Hall!
8. Sunday, October 26th: FOUND! At the gravesite of Brigadier General Frederick W. Lander in the Broad Street Cemetery.
9. Friday, October 31st: FOUND! At the Nathaniel Bowditch house at 9 North Street.