Dark Chameleon
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Sure, thanks...today is my off day cos its my birthday but ill get right on that
Question, whats the best thing or things you ever found without a detector?
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Sure, thanks...today is my off day cos its my birthday but ill get right on that
While in college, KT had occasion to be examining some rock outcrops along the local college town railroad tracks...when walking back out, He looked down and spotted a gold man's ring in the riprap next to the tracks. Picked it up, figured it was fake but pulled out my hand lens and read 14 K on the inside!
Being a poor college student, KT took it to the local jewelry store to get the ring checked out and the proprietor offered Him $65 for it....and having survived the past couple of weeks on 22 cent boxes of mac and cheese per day, KT took the money...this was back in the late 1960s when gold was less than $200 an ounce so even today, it seems the jeweler gave KT a pretty fair price!
Being a poor college student, KT took it to the local jewelry store to get the ring checked out and the proprietor offered Him $65 for it....and having survived the past couple of weeks on 22 cent boxes of mac and cheese per day, KT took the money...this was back in the late 1960s when gold was less than $200 an ounce so even today, it seems the jeweler gave KT a pretty fair price!
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Dark Chameleon
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Seems KT had a helping hand before in his life...someone likes you sire
This might not count but involves free cash.....
When I was young and cute, I was hired by a race track to be the elevator girl - just sat in the elevator and pushed the buttons for the fancy big spenders and local celebrities to go up to the 'sky suite' and watch the races. Some really old guy came along, dragging his oxygen, and would give me a ticket. He said that it was good luck for him to buy the elevator girl a ticket. I would go check them at the end of the day and a couple of times I walked out with 50 bucks.
Then, another college job, this time I was bartending and there was the Keno game mounted in the bar. I'm a bit psychic so just for fun, I started calling out numbers. Some of them started hitting. People at the bar started playing them. In about an hour, one guy won 200 bucks and he gave me half, claiming "that's how it's done" if he wanted to keep 'tips' rolling in.
When I was young and cute, I was hired by a race track to be the elevator girl - just sat in the elevator and pushed the buttons for the fancy big spenders and local celebrities to go up to the 'sky suite' and watch the races. Some really old guy came along, dragging his oxygen, and would give me a ticket. He said that it was good luck for him to buy the elevator girl a ticket. I would go check them at the end of the day and a couple of times I walked out with 50 bucks.
Then, another college job, this time I was bartending and there was the Keno game mounted in the bar. I'm a bit psychic so just for fun, I started calling out numbers. Some of them started hitting. People at the bar started playing them. In about an hour, one guy won 200 bucks and he gave me half, claiming "that's how it's done" if he wanted to keep 'tips' rolling in.
Dark Chameleon
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One guy walked into a garage when I was waiting for my car to get serviced and he said hed have thie $10 ticket and i said "I think $500 and smiled at him, i don't know why i said it but i did....he went out to his car and came back about a minute later, he'd won $500...lol
He got a $20 with his win and then asked me, "So, what do you think I'll win this time?"...I said "I'm saying nothing!"...sure enough he won nothing...
One guy walked into a garage when I was waiting for my car to get serviced and he said hed have thie $10 ticket and i said "I think $500 and smiled at him, i don't know why i said it but i did....he went out to his car and came back about a minute later, he'd won $500...lol
He got a $20 with his win and then asked me, "So, what do you think I'll win this time?"...I said "I'm saying nothing!"...sure enough he won nothing...
Your sure were the good luck fairy that day... My boyfriend played the good luck fairy once too, but he's still ticked off over it...
He let someone go in line before him at a convenience store - just being nice - the guy just happened to buy the same type of scratch off my bf was there to get. The guy won ten grand, jumped all over the store... my bf still hasn't gotten over that.
But back on topic, I told my bf all about this thread and what ppl found, and besides from finding the 3 diamonds in the sink drain of a house he was renovating, he said he also found lots of similar old coins mentioned on this site. He has a collection but he has just found them 'here and there' over the years, can't recall where - but none with a metal detector. Maybe I'll photograph them one day and post them.
Then my boyfriend, again, had an uncle who won 3 million in the Illinois State lottery (oops back off topic but cautionary tale- a 'careful what you wish for story"). His Uncle went out and bought a big a** fishing boat and was in one of the great lakes shortly after winning. A big a** rouge (spell?) wave came up and capsized the whole thing. His uncle and three cousins were on board, only one cousin survived and the other three realatives were never found. That one cousin, his Uncle's son, inherited all and lives in a big house next to Ted Nougant today (spell? the guitar player)
Two days ago, my room mate handed me one of those old dimes, 1940's something, with the ladies head on it, and it seemed smaller than our modern dimes, that he just found on the ground the other day. It was cool to see one 'in person."
Dark Chameleon
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Have perhaps a little too much knowledge of lottery wins, my wife won $50,000 in 96 from a $2 ticket, my neighbor won $400,000 back in 02, my cousins next door neighbor won just over $5m (English pounds equiv) and a guy I was working nightshift with, his sister won about $10m that night).
I want it to be my turn...
although if you read my stuff youd see that this year I couldn't get out so I bought some tickets and in three months won 3x$500 tickets and by July was up $3500 in scratch tickets alone...lol..bought some gold stuff from people on here and ebay...got diamonds and gold stashed in my SDB from a good year scratching tickets over dirt...lol...and my first ever coin find in my garden last year was a 1914 'D so its been good, just having found any gold yet.
And lucky enough tonight im watching my team lead 6-0 in the world series (im 20 miles from fenway park).
Oh, since I emigrated to America, we have won 2 world series, two super bowls, the Stanley cup and the NBA....and they said it was hard...
stuticius
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I found $0.31 a Sterling necklace and a pair of scissors eyeballing in my yard and thought I'd better get a detector
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Have perhaps a little too much knowledge of lottery wins, my wife won $50,000 in 96 from a $2 ticket, my neighbor won $400,000 back in 02, my cousins next door neighbor won just over $5m (English pounds equiv) and a guy I was working nightshift with, his sister won about $10m that night).
I want it to be my turn...
although if you read my stuff youd see that this year I couldn't get out so I bought some tickets and in three months won 3x$500 tickets and by July was up $3500 in scratch tickets alone...lol..bought some gold stuff from people on here and ebay...got diamonds and gold stashed in my SDB from a good year scratching tickets over dirt...lol...and my first ever coin find in my garden last year was a 1914 'D so its been good, just having found any gold yet.
And lucky enough tonight im watching my team lead 6-0 in the world series (im 20 miles from fenway park).
Oh, since I emigrated to America, we have won 2 world series, two super bowls, the Stanley cup and the NBA....and they said it was hard...
I had 5 out of 6 numbers on the Fla. lottery a few years ago.
One more number 4.5 million...my 5 netted me $9,300 so still not bad.
Dark Chameleon
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Nuttin wrong with that lil number...I got the first 4 numbers of the british lottery when it had only been going to about 6 weeks...missed out on 18m pounds....scared the bjesus out of me...lol...id told the ex I was going to win that night, when I got the first 4 numbers she was looking at me like a deer caught in the head lights...
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Out elk hunting in SW Mt I was around 17 .....walking down a ridge overlooking the Boulder valley, kicked over a dirt clod and out came a pair of old binoculars, marked on them 7th Calvary..Custers unit. Put them on my brother in laws ranch curio cabinette ....he and my sister got a divorce a couple years later and there they sit to this day .
Oh, since I emigrated to America, we have won 2 world series, two super bowls, the Stanley cup and the NBA....and they said it was hard...
One of the most annoying things I ever heard a lottery winner say was, "it really wasn't that hard..."
You're funny
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mysteriousnesss
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When I first started detecting, I found a 14k bracelet on the ground that I managed to sell for 106 dollars (no idea why I remember that exact number) and was able to buy a pro-pointer with it! This year I found a sterling heart charm necklace and a 14k earring on the ground. Sometimes if you see something shiny in the dirt you have to pull out your knife and dig it out. One thing Ive learned, always look down when youre walking ANYWHERE, gold isnt found just in jewelry stores and deep in the ground; sometimes its just sitting there for the taking!
Dark Chameleon
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I used to collect bottles in the uk..had a couple of boxes of them and found them all in the old colliery next to my house...used to find glass alley bottles, over here they are called COD bottles, not a lot survived cos they have glass marbles in the neck to stop the soda coming out, I found an early one (A series) with the marble and the pink rubber seal on it...don't know when it ended up at but carried it from home to home for a while
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When I was about 10 my family went to Sandy Hook Beach in NJ. I was digging in the sand. I dug up a 14K white gold blue star sapphire with 4 small diamonds on the side It had damage to the bottom of the ring loop. My mother took me to the jeweler and had it sized and repaired for me. The jeweler said it was worth about $300 dollars. I never had any thought of selling it. Over time, it got misplaced or stolen. I do not yet have a MD. I am looking to get one. Just picking up some info here on the site.
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