Metal Detector

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Originally Posted by JohnnyFlake

Metal detecting is a very contagious disease, be careful or it can consume you!

I pulled an 1836 silver religious medallion out of 8 inches of dirt one time and I almost fainted.
I live about three blocks from the spot where I found my first cache.
I pulled about 30 mercury dimes out of a ditch depression in a yard and had to leave in mid dig to go to a dinner date or something.
When I went back the next day the owner's son (who's mother had given me permission) ran me off saying it "looked bad" for me to be working the yard with the metal detector while they were trying to sell it.
That was 20 years ago and I still haven't made it back there.
They're going to tear that area up to make a new road into the hospital starting this spring. I'll hit it before the opportunity expires.