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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Terry, post: 2324831, member: 76710&quot;]Hi I saw your reply about metal detecting. I metal detected for years until my health would no</p><p>Longer allow me to. I started back in the 1970&#039;s when I lived in Coloado. I have a box of coins and jewerely that I found. The most valuable coin I found was a1908-S Quarter.</p><p>I was detecting across the street from where used to be a bank and it had been torn down</p><p>When I dug it up it was in a dark looking soft soil and it looked like it just came from the mint.</p><p>I have not looked lately but the last time I checked the red book it was listed as 850.00 It was not the oldest coin I ever found, the oldest was a 1797 large cent in very rough condition. I think I found</p><p>Almost at least one of each coin minted in the US.&nbsp; A lot of the old silver one&#039;s look brand new even though they had been buried over a hundred years. My goal was always to find a gold coin but never did.</p><p>I moved to Alaska In 1980, Most silver coins I found up here were mostly from 1940&#039;S until 64 There were just not many people up here back in the old Days to lose them. Anchorage did not even exist until 1915. I did find a few older ones but I always suspected that some kid got into his Dad&#039;s coin collection.</p><p>The last 4 years that I was able to metal detect right after I Retired, in the winter I would fly down </p><p>To Las Vegas and about half way from Vegas To Kingman Arizona, in the NW of Arizona there is a small town Called Meadview, I metal Detected gold nuggets and meteorites in Gold Basin side of the mountain, and on the other side of the mountain is a place called the King Tut and Queen Tut</p><p>Mine. On the gold basin side you could dig up a nugget and maybe two foot away you could dig up a</p><p>Meteorite. But the larger nuggets were on the King Tut side. At the time it was not that unusual </p><p>To hit a patch and take out an ounce of gold in half a day. For finding gold I started out with a mine lab 2000, Then a Mine lab 2100 and finnally a mine lab 2200. The last year I was able to go I thought we pretty much had the area cleaned out. A few weeks ago I got a phone call from a guy that lives there, I had not heard from him since about 2004, because I did not come back</p><p>someone started a rumor that I had passed which I have come close so many times, anyway he has upgraded through the years, and now has a mine lab 4300 he is now getting down twice as deep as we were able to. He is now Dow to a new layer of gold and the nuggets are a lot larger. I found </p><p>Nuggets from less than a gram up to six ounce. He sent me pictures, he is now finding much larger</p><p>He recently found one that was 11 ounce. I am in bed sick or I would get on my desk top and send you some links about the gold and meteorites. Sometimes I use to be able to hunt all day and not </p><p>see anyone. The other day I was looking on the Internet and it looks like gold basin has turned into</p><p>a city. But if you would like to see the place, just goggle gold basin Arizona, lost basin Arizona </p><p>and Meadview Arizona. You said that you like to talk to people that metal detect, well so do I.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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