Off Topic: Wat about these metal detectors guys
Twowood
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Just returned home from my daily walk on the boardwalk where , once again, I saw a couple of guys on the beach with all kinds of expensive paraphinalia, scanning for whatever. Do these guys ever find any thing besides bottle caps? Twowood
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Made me want to go out and get one...I need to lose a few pounds and quit spending so much money on coins...
a cheap Heathkit you build yourself. I have gold rings, rolls of silver
dimes and coins I found, sterling silver, civil war relics, antique
metal objects, you name it I found it all right. And yes plenty of
bottle caps and metal tabs from cans. I still have it all in my
display cases. I even wrote an article for a magazine and
pictured a nice find. But no $20K coin, that's for sure.
In fact I am getting back into it soon. It is thrilling every time
that detector sounds off, that's for sure. Best thing to do is do your
homework and try to figure out where picnics or other functions were
held years ago and may be overgrown now. To illustrate, in one of the
magazine articles a fellow found a postcard of a fireman sponsored
picnic near where he lived. He found where the place was through the
photo and it was wooded. The picnics were held there from the late 1800's
until about 1920's. He went there and found about 500 coins and pictured
them all. That's what can happen.
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