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Did you ever find??????
- Thread starter silversmith
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TRIPLE-SSS
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Never have really found anything really old but did find over $190.00 in silver coins next to the beach after a hurricane by a a small concrete slab. It took me over 3 hours to sift all those coins out of an area no more than 3 by 3 feet . I did find alot of glass while I was digging. Probably someone was saving those coins in a jar and the structure got demolished by the storm. It sure was exciting to make that find. I did'nt know how old those coins were untill I cleaned them all up. The oldest coin was 1961.I have also found alot of jewelry too since I started this hobby in the last 18 months.
TRIPLE-SSS
TRIPLE-SSS
silversmith
New member
I'm very glad I started this topic. It's helped my re-energize my interest, and am much less ho-hum about detecting and will get back in the bush, soon as I get a handle on this Bronchitis. Thanks to all who took place................
Lesse if I get this right. You found a bent up buckle with a low budget detector and $1 worth of battery power. You voluntarily sold it for nearly $400 at open auction bidding - and you got ripped off? I wish I could get taken like that every day.tater said:
What is the back story that makes you think you got ripped off?
Yes i did find this bent up buckle with a $212 detector. So im less of a person because i found it with this. If you would google what it is you would understand but i assume you didnt because of your rude comments. These buckles sell for $1000s of dollars. Are you this rude to all people or just me. What a jerk
Actually your choice of detector wasn't the issue. I'm sure pristine buckles that haven't suffered years of exposure to fertilizers and the plow do sell for plenty of money. But that one isn't like that.tater said:
The point is that you have about $200 bucks in the deal, if you count the cost of the detector. You sold it for just over 175% of your total cost. That is a great profit in anybody's book. Note I said "sold it" - you put it up for fair and open auction with the understanding that you would take the winning bid when it sold. Research ahead of time, using examples in the same condition as yours, might have shown that it would not bring more than it did.
Look at it this way: you nearly doubled your money on that one item. Many people wear their arm out finding clad, and don't achieve those results.
You can't say you lost money, because you made a lot more than you had in it. The fact that it sold for less than you had imagined it would, well... the ending buyer paid what he or she thought it was worth. It is what it is
BarberBill
New member
Found an 1860 Democratic campaign button marked Herschel V. Johnson 1860 on one side and Stephen A. Douglas 1860 on the other.
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