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To: editor-surveyor

I go on that site a lot and they find some incredible stuff. I have personally seen large caches of silver coins and silver rounds found here in Colorado. Some guys digging a water line trench in Alamosa found someone’s jar of Silver dollars. It was common practice to bury stashes of gold and silver coins in chicken coups and coal bins or under fence posts or large trees. There are metal detectorists who look for nothing else. I prefer to hunt for old coins dropped in yards and along parkway strips. The finds are more frequent, but finding a mason jar full of gold coins would be an awesome experience.

There are even guys who go out looking for meteorites. One was found by a couple with a metal detector in a dry wash near Salida, Colorado a few years back. It turned out to be a rare type and was worth several hundred thousand dollars.

Great hobby.


8 posted on 07/01/2012 7:22:57 PM PDT by albionin (A gawn fit's eye gettin.)
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To: albionin

I’m not putting down personal treasure hunting, but I don’t trust “clues” from websites.


9 posted on 07/01/2012 7:26:04 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: albionin

Great hobby.

You’re right. I used to go out with my father in law.


12 posted on 07/01/2012 7:58:29 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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