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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 26516513, member: 78298&quot;]I miss Richard who started this thread.</p><p>Time to do a little recap. Well I did some detecting in Colorado 30 years ago but I didn&#039;t have much success. I did pull 4 silvers (2 rings, an earring, and a piece of a bracelet) and I dug up a half dollar from a dog walking strip, I thought that was cool. But I only really had 1 decent hunt. So I never really thought about it, I did pull up a dollar coin here about 25 years ago. Around 10 years ago she&#039;s like why don&#039;t you start doing that again? My old rig was fried, I bought another one but it sat in the box for a while before I put it together and headed out.</p><p>After my previous experience, I never thought for a million years I would have gotten all this swag. Out here I am over 43,000 targets recovered. I just hit 40 half dollars (including the 1st) which makes 2 rolls. I know they aren&#039;t worth much, but they are so large I really like them. I have 1 90% Benjy and 1 40%, and a few lower mintage but no NIFCs. I have 162 dollar coins, 3 Ikes which are just monster sized. And I think 4 NIFCs. Almost 10,000 quarters almost 7,000 dimes, over 3500 nickels and of course almost 17,000 pennies. I have found 12 golds. 2 chains, 1 religious medallion and 9 rings. I expected to find zero gold. 123 silvers, mostly rings, but some coins, and some cool odds and ends that aren&#039;t rings. 21 pieces that are stamped but fake, 7 plated, 166 foreign coins, a few of them are pretty cool, almost 1400 pieces of junk jewelry, over 300 arcade tokens (car wash tokens, etc) over 300 miscellaneous. Pressed coins, etc. I have 28 things listed as other. Tungsten rings, stainless steel, things that are made very well but don&#039;t contain precious metals. The tungsten is very interesting. It never tarnishes and never needs to be polished and it has a very good resale/ retail value even though it&#039;s not a precious metal. Also found $60 in cash and another $5 in Colorado. Things are starting to slow down here as they have locked up all the elementary schools, and the playgrounds were great for finding, money, dollar coins, silver rings. I still have the parks but they are not as good. And the ground here has been picked over for decades by metal detectorists, so there&#039;s nothing left, and the ground is like cement. No one was doing what I was doing, so I was&nbsp; cleaning out all the schools when they were open on the weekends. Never expected to find anything, and I am at over 3700 in money, and the value of the silver and gold almost 700 in silver and over 2500 in gold. 9 volt battery prices keep going up as well as gas, and I cant find good headphones anymore, they break too soon. So there are expenses. Anyway, not bragging, because I never expected to find anything, and I was very serious when I would go out. That&#039;s just how I am.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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