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My wife says I've got metal detector eyes, I'm always finding stuff with my eyes, as a kid my parents had a bit of a long running joke about how much money I find, everywhere we went I was finding money on the ground, they used to say I must walk with my eyes glued to the ground.  When I was a little 7 year old I found a $100 note on the ground in the muddy wet car park when we arrived at a local fair (show), lets say we had a good day that day.  $100 was a lot of money back then in the 80's.

I being clueless at the time thought I'd found a $1 note and asked I could buy an ice cream as I found a dollar, my parents didn't even see the note straight away and were used to me finding money so it was no big deal, I gave it to my mum about an hour later to look after it so I didn't lose it and the shock on my parents faces ?

The two notes at the time didn't even look similar, but to an 7 year old it had one written on it and I'd never seen a hundred note before.

So I say your find is your find and counts towards your days tally, I've found plenty of good stuff with my eyeballs while detecting, it's still a find, and it's still something you found on your metal detecting day out ?

I like that you left a note on the notice board asking if someone lost something, that's the way I do it too, I don't like to say what it is or someone might just say they lost it.  I'm always very vague, if someone genuinely lost something they'd know what it is and be able to describe it.

There was just a news story on TV tonight in New Zealand about a metal detectorist that found a wallet on the beach, the wallet had been there something like 30 years I can't remember the exact time, the detectorist found the owner and posted it back to him.  It had some coins and his old bank card and his drivers license, the licenses were made out of paper back then and were a license for life, never needed replaced and the license survived for all that time buried up in the sand inside the wallet.  Pretty cool story and good publicity for detecting in a country that it's otherwise relatively unknown.  Good deeds can often be rewarding, even if it is just in the self satisfaction you've done a good deed.

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Well at least you did not lie to us and say you found it detecting lol so you get credit for that and as Phrunt says you have metal detecting eyes...we’ve all been trained to look down while hunting so thats why you found it. Once in a while I’ll see a video of some guy on the beach swinging his detector while lookin off into space..the coil is usually a foot or more off the ground ? 

personally I’d be a little pissed it’s not gold but that’s just me ?

strick 

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18 hours ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

a diamond ring found at a 7-eleven parking lot on my way home from detecting.

Wow! There are two of us? Imagine a Venn diagram of the number of people who detect and the number of people who find jewelry in parking lots. The overlap can’t be very big.

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11 hours ago, phrunt said:

…as a kid my parents had a bit of a long running joke about how much money I find…

Aha! Brothers from different mothers!

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Actually, my wife probably finds more change in the parking lots than I find metal detecting.  Around forty bucks last year, just in small change.  If I'm in the car waiting for her in the market, I'll see her coming to the car by way of three rows over so she doesn't miss anything.  Her manta is "I don't need no metal detector to find money".  I have to live with that saying every time she picks up a penny!!!, Gota love her!!!  GaryC/Oregon Coast

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I've only found 1 gold chain in a parking lot and money. I always keep eye out for gold as I walk in.

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A find is a find. It still goes in the treasure chest. Here is from earlier this year. 1st pic is taken from when I opened my car door upon getting to one of my beaches. At 1st I thought it was an earring. It's a 14k crushed nugget ring. After scavenging the rest of the lot , I also got this crushed silver ring. I was up before my coil hit the sand. It all counts.

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1 hour ago, King-Of-Bling said:

I was up before my coil hit the sand. It all counts.

OK, now you’re making me sad…?

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