Metal Detecting

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[#0000FF]I knew a couple of guys in Arizona that took off every weekend to "coin-shoot". They often hit school playgrounds with sand under the swings and monkey bars...because kids loose coins. And another place they did well was around mailboxes that had been in place for a few decades...along rural roads. Seems that folks used to put outgoing mail in their boxes for postage and sometimes the coins would fall into the snow and mud and be lost...until a coin shooter showed up years later. Those guys had lots of old Indian head pennies.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I like the stories I heard about someone finding several glass jars full of silver dollars hidden on the property of some former doctor or whatever...I think in Tennessee...and he saved all the dollars he got for quick office visits. That's what all us "swingers" lust after.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]And in northern California there have been and still are caches of gold taken from stage robberies and stashed by thieves who were killed or jailed before they could return for the loot. Saw a collection a guy had that included rotted old leather dle bags full of gold dust and nuggets hidden during the gold rush days. Drool, drool.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I was in the rural real estate business the last few years I lived in Sacramento. We sold land all up and down the foothills of the Sierras. It was rare to have a piece of property of any size without evidence of previous prospecting. And some actually had formerly producing mines. Acquired lots of nice mineral specimens...including gold ore. Plus, found some old dumps full of valuable bottles.
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