About Quarter Hoarder
About Quarter Hoarder
Hi, I’m Jason, creator and host of Quarter Hoarder.
What started more than a decade ago as a simple way to share my metal detecting adventures has grown into something I never could have imagined. In the beginning, it was mostly just me, a metal detector, and a camera heading out in search of old coins and relics. Over the years, friends joined the adventures, the crew grew, and so did the Quarter Hoarder community.
Today, more than 100,000 people follow along on YouTube as we travel to historic properties in search of pieces of the past and the stories that come with them. Through all the growth and changes over the years, the idea behind Quarter Hoarder has always stayed pretty simple: you never know what the next hole is going to reveal. Meet the Crew.
The Hunt
Most of our adventures take us to historic homes, colonial farms and fields, and other early American properties where generations of people lived, worked, traveled, and lost things along the way.
We’re always hoping for that once-in-a-lifetime discovery, but the hunt is about much more than finding something valuable. Old coins, buttons, buckles, military relics, tokens, jewelry, and even everyday objects can tell a story about the people who were there before us.
Some hunts produce bucket-list finds. Others produce almost nothing. That’s part of metal detecting, and we try to show all of it.
New Quarter Hoarder metal detecting adventures are shared every Tuesday on YouTube, and after all these years, we’re still excited every time a good signal comes through the headphones.
From a Hobby to Something Much Bigger
When I started Quarter Hoarder, I certainly never expected it to reach the places it has.
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to appear on many of the major metal detecting and treasure hunting podcasts and programs, including Relics Radio, Beyond Sight & Sound, Treasure Vortex, American Digger Magazine, and many others.
Quarter Hoarder and our discoveries have also been mentioned in books, magazines, newspapers, and other publications. Some of the team’s more unusual finds and stories have even made their way onto the news, including the return of a class ring that had been lost for 65 years.
And in one of the more unexpected moments in Quarter Hoarder history, the channel even made its way into pop culture with an appearance in the Beavis and Butt-Head reboot episode “Polling Place.”
None of that was something I could have predicted when I uploaded those first metal detecting videos. It’s been a pretty incredible ride.
Quarter After LIVE
Quarter Hoarder eventually grew beyond our weekly metal detecting adventures as well.
Every Thursday evening at 7:15 PM Eastern, hence Quarter After, I host Quarter After LIVE, where we get together with viewers to talk metal detecting, history, treasure hunting, exploration, and whatever else the conversation brings.
The show has also given me the opportunity to sit down with historians, authors, archaeologists, detectorists, explorers, researchers, collectors, and other interesting guests whose stories connect with the things our audience enjoys.
It’s a chance to go beyond what you see during a normal hunt and spend an hour talking about the history, people, discoveries, and stories behind it all.
More Than Just the Finds
One of the best parts of Quarter Hoarder has always been the people.
Whether it’s the crew standing in a farm field trying to squeeze one more good find out of a site before dark, a property owner sharing the history of their land, a viewer watching from home, or someone we’ve been fortunate enough to return a lost item to, those experiences have become just as much a part of Quarter Hoarder as the finds themselves.
We’ve found some incredible things over the years, traveled to some amazing historic properties, and crossed quite a few items off the bucket list. But there are still plenty of places left to explore and plenty of history still hiding beneath our feet.
And as long as that’s the case, we’ll keep searching.
Thanks for following along and being part of the adventure.
