Update on my treasure hunting...

[Archae]

Went to a park with my metal detector where there is a soccer field, there was a soccer game 2 days ago. (Even in the heat!)

Under the bleachers, found $12 in change.

I'm really enjoying this!

[LakeArenal]

1. Fun. Hope you find a diamond ring!!!

[ProudLib72]

2. I always love these treasure stories

I have a question, though. Are you checking coins to see if any are rare? After your last post about the Greek festival, I started looking into rare modern coins and found out quite a bit. I guess that adds another dimension to the treasure hunt.

[Archae]

6. I haven't checked any of the coins for rare ones.

Not yet.

I think I will though now.

Thanks for the tip.

[hlthe2b]

3. cool, but be aware of "creepy crawlies"...

You are unlikely to recoup in the near future enough to pay for one snake bite requiring antivenin.

Fun, hobby, though as long as you take care.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. There aren't any poisonous snakes in that part of Wisconsin.

The only dangerous animal in eastern WI is Packerfanus cheeseheadensis.

[Archae]

15. You forgot...

Multiplus DUIus.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I believe those species regularly interbreed...

[Uben]

4. I found a huge silver coin!

This was back in the eighties. I was detecting an old house (1800s) in our historical district and found 42 coins! One was a huge silver coin. When I got home I cleaned it up. There was a presidents picture on the first side I cleaned, so I knew it was the real thing. Then, I cleaned the back side...…..Shell coin game token. Bummer. It was aluminum. I still have everything I have ever found. Got a really nice bronze medallion with a dragon on one side and "In memory of landing in Japan" on the other.

[Archae]

8. I have a real aluminum coin, from Italy.

A 1955 coin that is worth 10 (something).

[safeinOhio]

9. Easy way to tell if a coin is silver.

Only if it is not a prefect one as it might put a small ding in it. Drop it on cement. If it rings it silver. A thunk and it’s not.

[Archae]

10. It's aluminum.

One like it here:

https://tinyurl.com/y3yjlse3

[mopinko]

5. lots of folks do this on the beach here in chi. every once in a while

someone posts of a local board asking for someone to search for a ring or such lost at the beach. sometimes there is a reward. usually someone steps up, and often the item is found.

if i were you, i would print up some business cards offering your services.
i mean, you would get paid to create happy endings.

[Archae]

7. Have yet to find any gold or jewelry.

But if I ever find some, I will advertise that I did find it and will give it back to the person who gives a proper description.

Couple weeks ago at a beach a guy asked me if I had found any keys, he had lost his.
Sorry to say I hadn't.

[mokawanis]

11. Was the detector expensive?

I'd love to have one but can't afford to buy an expensive one.

[Archae]

12. Got it at Amazon.

This one, cost me $67.

https://www.amazon.com/INTEY-Detector-Pinpoint-Function-Waterproof/dp/B07QHWTM6B/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=metal+detector&qid=1563737945&s=gateway&sr=8-8

[mokawanis]

18. Glad to hear it

I'm going to buy one. Thanks!

[in2herbs]

14. Hi. I'm from the IRS and you owe .... nt

[mpcamb]

17. In 1954 I found a coin jammed in the slot of a gumball machine.

It was in a local grocery store a few days before Christmas.
(I recall the time. We had just cut a tree from a local farm.) I fiddled with it and got it out.
It was an 1853 half-dime; trouble was it had been punched and had a little square hole near the top. Everyone I ever showed it to agreed that diminished the value a lot. Somewhere in the next few decades I lost it. Oh, well.
I hadn't thought of it for years till I was executor for an elderly friend who had about 20 pounds of coins to dispose of as part of the estate.
I checked on line to get an approximation of the values. Buyers all wanted to buy the lot or meet after the coin show to look more carefully. Some coins were good, a few very good and for the others, they'd say 'go ahead and spend these'. It was all in all a lot of travel for what the estate got back from it, but a bit of an education.

I wonder what ever happened to that old coin.
Good luck with that detector.