Georgia's 6th Annual Gold Coin Hunt Returns This October!

We are proud to announce that Georgia's sixth annual Salem Gold Coin Hunt returns this October, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum! Each Saturday and Sunday throughout the month of October, Georgia will release special clues at 12 noon through her Instagram page and the PEM's Instagram story. Those clues will help coin hunters narrow down where to search for one of Salem's most exclusive collectibles! Get the details from the PEM HERE.

Sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum.

Coin Hunt Schedule (Clues and where the coins were found are hyper-linked):

1. Saturday, October 5th: FOUND! At Jonathan Corwin's gravesite in the Broad Street Cemetery.

2. Sunday, October 6th: FOUND! At the site of the first Salem Theatre.

3. Saturday, October 12th: FOUND! At the original site of the Hooper-Hathaway House.

4. Sunday, October 13th: FOUND! At The Daniels House Inn.

5. Saturday, October 19th: FOUND! At 14 Mall Street, the home where author Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter.

6. Sunday, October 20th: FOUND! At the former site of the Simon Bradstreet mansion on Essex Street (the current location of Plummer Hall and Daland House).

7. Saturday, October 26th: FOUND! At the home built for Daniel Ropes, a barrel maker, at the intersection of Turner Street and Derby Street.

8. Sunday, October 27th: FOUND! On what was once the 17th-century estate of Witch Trial Court Clerk Stephen Sewall.

9. Thursday, October 31st: FOUND! At the Theobald Mathew statue at the bottom of Hawthorne Blvd.