I hope this post was in jest. We have enough problems without getting bad a bad name from something like this. Finding coins around the base of meters should be enough to keep any honest detector happy. I'm old and was brought up in a different time so I can't really say much about what goes on today. Items found in lakes and rivers would be different.
Rest assured all in jest. You sir and I were raised in a not so different time zone. Think maybe mixing my blood pressure medicine and statin drugs is showing!
Back when I use to drink, I hit a meter at 2am as I parked to go to an after hours club. Put the head in my ‘56 Plymouth and went into the bar. That thing sat around my house for years . Last time I saw it , my sister wanted it when I moved out. Gonna have to ask her what ever she did with it !