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I've always missed something...
Can't believe I missed this:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouville_Hoard
"Mead and Miles started metal detecting in the area where the hoard was reported in the early 1980s after they heard about a farmer who some years earlier had discovered a number of silver coins in an earthenware pot while pulling out a tree from a hedgerow. However, as they did not know the exact location of the find, and as the current owner of the farm would only allow them to metal detect once a year for 10–15 hours after the crops had been harvested, it took about 30 years before they eventually managed to locate the hoard."
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This, of interest because all of our gold rushes happened a century or more in the past. Yet not all the gold has been found, clearly.
The Serra Pelada, for example, prompted a gold rush in Brazil with upwards of 100, 000 artisanal miners, with a black market production estimate of 360 tonnes and nuggets weighing up to 15 pounds.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_Pelada
So far my summer has had a dearth of adventure, but I may find yet a way to remedy this...
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One I missed, probably due to the Pandemic. The largest Bronze-Age hoard found in London.
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Having found - in the garbage - a silk needlepoint of 2 eagles grappling over an American Flag - obviously old, (Google Image states Filipino, 100+ years) - lousy condition, I take it on myself to reprice and hang.
The manager finds it, thinks it's worth even more, and squirrels it away in the back.
Later, another of the volunteers finds a Native American Basket, probably SW Arizona/New Mexico - priced at 50 cents.
The manager looks at this, hums and haws, comes up with a price of $6.00. The volunteer puts it in her pile of treasures.
She's getting one hell of a deal, it's old, at least 100 years, and looking at similar online they go for $100's to $1000. Again, the condition isn't great, but the item is.
So, there are still treasures to be found...
Meanwhile, Madge is working on her next item, google-lensing a resin angel, made in China, $20.00 isn't too much, is it?
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I've watched quite a few of the videos, in the UK, where they recover all manner of interesting historic stuff, like antique swords and armour, and then in the US where they usually find dodgy used firearms and knives and shopping carts, scooters and bikes.
It's a sport with a high trash-low treasure ratio.
Which I'm kinda drawn to it but have so far resisted. While I know there's spots on the old ferry landing in Ainsworth that would yield treasures, I'm also annoyed by the things it wouldn't get - silver, gold, old glass patent medicine bottles, etc, etc.
But this might just change my thinking...