Bower bird
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Nice find, someone on the aussie forum I'm mainly in just found a whole plate with 2 teeth still attached and 1 or 2 missing, it looked old from the 40's or so, apparently the ones from back then were 17k gold on avg.
Not the kind of gold I wanted to find
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metaladdict
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GabbityGabby
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This reminds me of that Three Stooges episode where they stake a claim on land where they claim to have "struck gold." However, the "gold nugget" they'd found was actually a gold tooth. I think the episode is called "Yes We Have No Bonanza." It's hilarious. 
Yeah, I think the older stuff was typically higher gold content than more modern crowns. Probably was a lot easier to work with without the aid of air powered tools like they have today.
I have about a dozen crowns and teeth with gold fillings I will send it one day. Never found one in the water, but I used to buy vintage dental equipment and often times the old Columbia models would have gold fillings!
cyberdan
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So, why do you guys promote it so much and charge an arm and a tooth for it?
I have to have a crown replaced next week. $175 for base metal. Way in the back, I don't care. That is what is there now, been there 35+ years. Somewhere around $1500 for gold. I asked the DR if i could supply my own gold and he had never heard of that before.
cyberdan
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Last year I bought 300 pounds of junk jewelry. I went through every single piece (except there are still 3 very big balls of knotted up gold colored chains. at least 20-30 lbs) Here is just some of the interesting things I found. first photo is 300lbs of treasure hunting fun.
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Dirtfishin
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Cool find I like that toof... Congrats
GroundSweeper
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Shoot, it's gold at least! 
pantherdev
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One of the best and funniest posts I have ever read on any forum.
One of the best and funniest posts I have ever read on any forum.
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