Several years ago I bought a cheap metal detector and periodically went out and found some stuff, nothing big, just quite a bit of nickels dimes and pennies mostly. I sold the cheap radio shack metal detector on Ebay and have been looking for a professional model. There are many places to look, parks, beaches, old home sites etc. check out these videos on this subject, alot of these guys score big, finging 15 lost gold rings on a beach in one day has got to be cool. At any rate this would be a healthy hobby and even quite profitable. The fun thing about it is you always find something, if you spend an hour on a little beach like mine you could find about 40 items, maybe 25% are coins. How many gold wedding rings have slipped off the finger of a swimmers in the last 120 years at a beach? 100's at least, its there for the taking now that we have the technology. I am definately getting back into this.
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Treasure hunting america #1
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4 comments:
This sounds like a rather profitable hobby.Getting more exercise, you may also loose something in the process. ( a pants size perhaps?) I never went shopping with Grams when she didn't say "look for money". lol.
Its great that the general public suffers from delusion, one of the biggest being that the gold rush exhausted the gold, fact is there is more in the ground than ever, they only scrathed the surface with the gold rush. people lose coins and jewelry all the time, this has been going on forever, if you go to and old beach or an old park with the state of the art tech you can zero in on it all. If you are smart and look at the right places money is to be made as well as have some fun. Alot of people do this full time now and make a good living, finders keepers!-CITIZEN
I thought you had to be at least
in your 70s to do that.
Lots of interesting stuff can be found, watch some shows on it, the trick is where to look I think, you would be suprised how much change can be found just on the shoulder of the road. I have some experience with detectors but need to read up on it, and check out different models before I grab a new one. Going to Ebay right now to browse some, I'd say stay with a name brand and go to a forum on it and listen to what the scoop is. I don't want a pricey one, just a good one that works well without getting crazy.-Citizen
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