People Who Metal Detect, What Has Been Your Coolest Discovery? r/AskReddit Reddit Stories

ready to zoo metal detect what has been your coolest discovery i bought my son a kid size one for his sixth birthday i'm the one that uses it though i feel pretty ridiculous walking around with it but i just can't help myself my family can be little turds when i get it out and constantly throw coins in the sand when detecting on a beach just to see me get excited it's kind of scary how many rusty nails and razor blades i find on beaches i've found a few rings but pretty sure they're just costume jewelry lots of coins too but mostly rusty nails so many rusty nails my uncle is a notorious idiot we had a cabin by a stream and he decided to buy a metal detector and see if he could find some gold he picks up some rocks and scans over them the detector goes off and he gets super excited he does the same with multiple rocks and now has a pile assuming the rocks must have deposits he'd been at it or an hour or two before he realized that he was holding the rocks with his left hand and scanning with his right he was detecting the gold wedding band on his finger edit a lot of people are saying that gold wouldn't be picked up by a metal detector i honestly don't know one way or the other but i doubt he knew that knowing him i also doubt very much that his wedding ring was made entirely from gold it did two till metal detectors definitely pick up gold also gold jewelry is pretty much always mixed with other metals i appreciate everyone who signs this edit three no my cousin's name is not kevin but i just read that post and op said kevin wasn't his real name so honestly i wouldn't be surprised a pre-revolutionary war graveyard in my backyard in connecticut got a metal detector to locate nails in some 250 year old chestnut flooring i was refinishing in an old colonial i bought took my five-year-old son out to the backyard to play with it found out i had six people buried in the back corner of my yard lead-lined wooden caskets show up really well state came in made all kinds of nasty noises about things and then just sort of disappeared turned out they were the original settlers in my town and no one knew what to do about the graves so we all just pretended like they weren't there my friend dean found a bicycle buried under the sand at a beach an entire bicycle it needed cleaning and a new tyre along with a new chain but after that it was as good as new i went metal detecting with my dad on an isolated island he used to play on as a kid 50 years ago we found a hatchet head about 18 inches down that he lost his kid building a fort maybe not the coolest find for anyone else but it was awesome to see my elderly father instantly transported to his childhood a few years ago a guy andre did ask predict if anyone had a metal detector he could borrow to find his wife's lost wedding ring i lived local to him at the time and had one i never really used i offered help showed up at the dude's house and we ended up finding the ring in about 10 minutes that was the first and last time i ever used that metal detector you joe lithium if you're still out there i hope you're doing well and your wife hasn't lost her ring again the year was 1996 i was 22 and just bought my first metal detector i was at my girlfriend's house and asked her mom if i could use it in the backyard she says shawn then starts telling me about a precious ring her oldest daughter had lost in the backyard in 1979 it was a family heirloom and was missed very greatly she pulls out home movies that were made the day it was lost it was at a family reunion well i saw in the movie where the girl was mostly hanging out i walked outside turned on my detector and found the ring that had been lost for 17 years in about two minutes a full six pack of beer in a guy's pockets i was working security at a country music festival they gave us handheld ones to check suspicious lumps my wedding ring won in the garden under some tomato starts two in the garden mixed in with carrot seeds three in my friend's backyard near the hammock i drunkenly fell off of four in a massive leaf pile six foot tall by easily 12 foot in diameter at another friend's house i need to get this thing resized my uncle found an authentic nazi ss officers ring on the beaches of san diego though in all honesty the wild stories we came up with to explain how why the ring ended up there is much cooler than the ring itself edit r.i.p inbox i'll try to get photos but fair warning there is a good chance he is out on the rv metal detecting somewhere so it may be a few weeks edit too here is the pick of ring and misc stuff he found looking at it again it isn't an ss ring i think so feel free to take back your upvote less than a frame class equals imgur album width equals 100 percent height equals 550 from a border equals zero src equals more than less than i frame more than a set of world war one medals the ones that were given out after the war belonging to rlt rupert frampton can't find anything about him on the googles i keep them in the box with the two sets i have from my great-grandfather and step-great-grandfather edit wow some serious sleuthing going on in these comments thanks chaps and surpasses as i mentioned to a couple of you i'm traveling until tuesday but we'll update here with some pictures of the medals as soon as i can i'd love to get these back to his descendants all help very much appreciate it found a platinum ring with a diamond in it once it wasn't shiny as it had been under the sand for a while but still pretty i also have a large collection of old coins and artifacts my personal favorite is actually two items found in the same field two world war ii bullets one from some sort of ground to their rifle the other from a plane that shoots things on the ground i'm not actually sure what weapons or planes they're from i'm not very educated on world war ii weaponry unfortunately e double i live at uni and my collection is at home so here is an album i've posted before it's not quite up to date but shows most of the cool stuff might get my parents to send me a photo of the ring edinburgh too a lot of people are asking any non-metallic stuff i found either lying on the surface of fields after they had been freshly blowed brings a surprising amount of stuff up if you are looking down all whilst mud looking which is the activity of scouring the shore of the river thames at low tide really good fun if you're a ducking loser into this kind of thing as i am my dog once ate one of my mother's sapphire earrings my dad went out with the dog every morning and used my metal detector to find it my grandparents moved to maine almost 25 years ago from kansas city mo where my grandfather was a policeman with kcpd they metal detect on the beaches near their house in maine almost every week and four years ago they found buried in the sander ring it was a police department ring from my grandfather's division it was engraved with the officer's last name and belonged to one of his friends from the force a man he hadn't spoken to in 20 years my grandmother had his wife's phone number so they called to tell them they'd found his ring it turned out their family had gone on vacation in georgia almost 15 years before five years after my grandparents moved to maine and he had lost the ring while at the beach and it turned up on a beach in maine close to the one person in the whole state who knew him they've also found other rings including a few high school class rings they've returned to their owners but all of those came from maine or its neighboring states i found a cannonball fragment from the war of 1812 on a lake erie beach i know a man who grew up in normandy in france right after world war ii as you can imagine there were a lot of unexploded bombs left so one day he was around eight years old he and some friends go metal detecting and found one they took it home and played a bit with it as you can imagine booom he still has pieces of this bomb in his chest nowadays and i think there were some lost fingers too don't play with bombs kids and fireworks too my keys which was the whole reason for buying the detector my granddad isn't a redditor so i have to post this on his behalf some time ago my grandad in his 70s at the time was metal detecting with his crew oh they have crews when he heard a little beep he had been metal detecting for about 40 years so he knew he had something interesting he dug and found a gold philippi of macedonia stator he went over again and found another beep dug again another one he repeated this a few times and found 967 of them in a clay bowl there were also silver ingots it was a horde the largest iron age ward found ever in the uk he called mainan and couldn't get a word out he was in tears he had found the treasure he had been searching for his whole life he even made it into coin news he is great my grandad found a lead coin in a field apparently back in the day farmhands used to be paid in these lead coins that they cashed out at the end of the week for real coins this was to stop them from turning up to work drunk hungover every morning edit fixed spelling second edit the token is from the 17th century i have pictures if anyone is interested final edit here are some pictures my father-in-law's gold wedding ring that he had lost almost 15 years before i had detected the it out of the area that he told he had lost it in found literally dozens and dozens of pieces of junk over hours and hours of detecting and digging digging in clay sometimes digging deep every hit i get i pull something out so my machine is working despite me being a rank noob in the end i don't find it so of course i get the disappointed look and comments about my machine not working very well with the obvious implication in the air that i failed now i'm kind of pissed at myself and frustrated already so yeah i feel like it about it a year or two go by and i decide to detect the garden area to kill some time and die around with my detector on a nice full day the garden area is well over 200 feet away from the spot he had pointed to initially their acreage is just under eight acres so i wasn't really looking for the ring but you never know hey so instead of doing a grid like you would when you seriously want to cover every inch of ground because the garden is about 200 feet by about 50 feet and i was just pissing around i just let my intuition lead me in a meandering route i find a couple of pieces of junk and then i pull a gold looking ring out of the ground this is about 10 minutes into detecting i call my wife over and ask her if it's her dad's ring frankly it looked thinner and smaller than i expected she calls her mom over and her mom almost starts crying they call him over and he almost starts crying that day i was the hero very cool for me anyways that's how you get addicted to metal detecting my girlfriend and i found a ring once on a children's playground area it turned out to just be sterling silver so nothing expensive never did find the owner but i like to think some kid got dumped and threw their ring away lol the most interesting thing i've found while using a metal detector on a beach was a steel horse show it made me feel lucky coolest thing i found was a silver button weighing 2.1 gram from 1780s or so the history behind it is amazing but let me tell you something my dad meddled a text to and because of schoolwork i couldn't go with him for the day the ducker find a golden coin who was otherwise unknown it is a coin so rare that it's strange coin is from around 1560 if you know dutch history you know that the 80-year war against the spanish the coin was taxed whether some kind of staple this staple was also never used before he sold it and got enough money to pay for my tuition it's a lovely hobby but don't expect to be as lucky as him it takes time to plan and information countless times we look at things like strange this hill seems out of place and then we spend the next three days searching it found the russian capitan sabre from the bulgarian turkish war i found a class ring with year and initials this was before internet so i went to the local high school and looked got the old yearbook three names matched the initials looked them up in the phone book for the owner and was able to return it seven years after she lost it i once found a stash of quarters hidden in a small wooded area as a kid with my buddies it was about twenty dollars worth we took them and bought pizza and two liters at the dominoes on the corner edit leave for a calc test and everyone loses their minds it was a two liter of sprite in my case drank it all in one go and felt like i was gonna explode for an hour edit two no i didn't check to see if there were silver quarters but i know that pizza was the it i used to live in czech republic and this stoner buddy of mine used to love detecting near ancient settlements former nazi bases etc he found several grenades a bunch of silverware and crucifixes near some pilgrimage site lots of coins dating back to the roman era it was absolutely crazy the czechs have a forum that a lot of enthusiasts share their finds on it's absolutely crazy some people find old tanks weapons caches etc their domestic google maps called map cz as a historical map overlay so you can see where former villages etc are located this happened to my best friend she lost her ring the day after she was proposed to at the beach in los angeles she was crying and asked the lifeguard tower if there was anything they could do they gave her a number to this metal detector guy named harry they said he was the best in town and not to call anyone else so they give him a ring and he's there 20 minutes later with his metal detector old tan dude with long beach hair took him five minutes to find the ring she offered to give him 200 cash he said no thank you their happiness was enough for him when we were in high school my buddy and i were metal detecting around his dad's yard found a door to a small fallout shelter that the original owners of the house had built out of paranoia still stocked with several weeks worth of canned food tools medical supplies and a radio at the beach my brother and i found a monogrammed sterling sliver money clip stuffed with twenty dollars isn't five dollars one hundreds fortunately it was buried in the sand far enough away from the ocean that the paper bills were still intact we looked around but the area where we discovered it was deserted my husband had to rent a metal detector when he lost his wedding band in the backyard he was chopping stacking logs and took off his gloves for something and it must have been flung out during that good news is that he found it almost right away in a pile of leaves my wife would most definitely say her wedding ring while we were dating metal detecting was our hobby that we did together long story short i made a heart-shaped plug cut out piece of grass and put a ring in it then i made her come dig it up she loved it and we've been happily married for two years now the remains of my neighbor's dad's pocket watch dropped in the yard 50 years ago beyond repair certainly but recognizable and somewhat satisfying to my neighbor i hope mostly i find old farmyard rubbish because of where we live but i'm happy to get that out of the ground too old leaf springs and axles an ax head a jalopy type hood sometimes the hit coincides with the old midden pile where you'll find bottles and crockery in china as well found a 1915 barber quarter at the in-laws two i found something that made a dude's day unlike most of you my metal detector is used to check you into the emergency room one time this fellow kept making the detector go off near his abdomen i wasn't satisfied so i used our handheld metal detector wand turns out his pocket knife had fallen into a hole in his pocket into the inside of his jacket he thanked me and explained his grandfather had given him the knife when he was a boy and he was coming to see his grandpa in the er a 300 a.d roman coin i found on the thames for sure it was full moon and a very low tide so i stood almost in the middle of thames i can't wrap my head around how old the coin is my personal experience of old is my grandfather who is two generations away from me someone lost the coin 68 generations ago that find put everything in a different perspective for me when i read about edward the confessor died 1066 i think it was so long ago and then i think wait it's 700 years after someone lost the coin i'm holding in my hands not really cool but i once found a big pink and purple dildo vibrator that was buried in a ziploc bag i covered it back up okay so a decade later this still leaves me pretty salty as a kid i see a lady in the park with a metal detector being the curious 10 year old i was i decide to help her look for treasure he is more than happy to oblige and inside of 20 minutes it starts going off i help her dig and we find this hunk of metal nothing special really covered in dirt and rust she decides she'll let 10 year-old me keep it and i am excited i take it to the water faucet in the park and start cleaning it off and it is stamped with some random letters in the moniker hassler i get out the flip phone and look it up on the slowest balls 3g internet it was the shock absorber from a ford model t i am ecstatic i rush over to let her know what we discovered and she took it back wtf metal detector lady you said it was mine anyway i got pissed off and went to tell my mom that some lady took my thing and by the time we get back she was gone metal detector lady if you read this duck you you crushed my 10 year old spirit metal detected my grandfather's old land the act alone meant a lot to me needless to say he had a buddy who was a watchmaker and i ended up finding a watch fitter my grandfather's size with the watchmaker's mark on the back i have all of his other watches so it meant a lot to me to be able to find it found an entire skyscraper in new york i'm a land surveyor we use a metal detector to find metal pins set as property corners and nails we bury in the ground as control travis points to occupy with a total station gps unit or what have you the detector we use only responds to iron but we still find some cool stuff sometimes i've found animal traps knives a couple of axe heads old refuse pits from long gone home sites that lead to some nice antique glass etc but my favorite find so far was a four pound meat cleaver buried right in the middle of a local town at the corner of some guy's backyard edit a word my dad rented a metal detector because he lost his wedding ring doing yard work he went over everything and finally moved to the compost pile in the back around that time i got home from school or something and i see him with this weird contraption i asked him what he was doing and he said he lost his wedding ring and was trying to find it at that point i see something shiny and ask is that it it was anyway i got to play with the metal detector the rest of the afternoon and found two really old rusty matchbox cars and an old but visor can i still have the cars nothing great here in wisconsin the dnr department of natural resources has essentially banned metal detecting on public land there's not much you're going to find on private land because it's mostly farmers fields that have never had many people in them edit info on regulations and reasons here and here in 2004 i found a gold rolex yacht master and seven feet of water off salt creek beach in southern california not me but a friend in northern california found a 6.07 pound 2.75 kilo gold nugget with his detector in july 2014 edit got about 400 000 for it so anybody want to recommend good metal detectors or brands for under three hundred dollars my first coin was a quarter from 1916. i dug one hole that had a dime from 1892 a wheat penny from 1909 and two indians won 1886 and one 1904 i found a car i got a metal detector for christmas when i was a kid i wanted to use it right away but there was still a lot of snow out so i waited until it melted once the snow was gone i began to scan the ground around my parents house we lived in a rural area btw in hopes of finding something i got some hits an old nail a piece of thin scrap metal and a piece of old metal fence then it happened i got to hit in my parents old garden uneven ground surrounding a large old walnut tree i started to dig down and after about digging 5-7 inches down my shovel hit something hard and i heard the sound of metal on metal i hunched down and began to dig with my hands so as to not damage whatever i had stumbled upon i couldn't believe my eyes it was a purple metal hot wheels mustang i excitedly picked it up and brushed the rest of the dirt off with my hands i still have it to this day on a shelf in my room at my parents house i'll never forget that day i found a car with my metal detector tl doctor i got a metal detector for christmas when i was a kid and found a car buried in my parents old garden update edit here's a link to pics of the car i am back home from college and found it on a shelf in my room me and a friend were metal detecting in a small german village near the dutch border it was a grass field near a primary school next to a mill and a river we were digging up a lot of scrap from the school kids like cans and foil but also some older coins as we get closer to the road which often means more scrap i get a huge signal immediately i get disappointed because 99 of the time it is a large piece of foil or some other crap i dig a nice round hole and i break the piece of earth with my hand only to find a big silver coin in a very good condition the coin was a 12 enin thala from hanover 18th century i hit up the local parks and usually sweep around picnic and party areas one time i followed a washout down the side of a hill from a party area and found about ten dollars in quarters and a couple of half dollar pieces in a honey hole at the bottom of the hill while not much money it's still fun to stop digging and keep pulling coin after coin out of a little two feet x two feet foot area couple hours of detecting bought my dinner that night my husband metal detects i've gone along occasionally as well because who doesn't like a good treasure hunt best thing that he's found is a taxi driver's pin from new york city with the driver's name number and such on it from the 1920s or 1930s it's nothing of real value but is in surprisingly good condition for being in dirt for as long as it was edit clarification of name on pin back in the 70s my dad bought a really expensive 350 was huge dollar sign dollar sign back then metal detector i used to take it out in the woods to what was rumored to be some sort of old settlement but there was nothing there at least to the naked eye at that site i found a very old silver fork and spoon buried together in a hole i read up and found that sometimes during cholera epidemics when someone died they would bury silver where they ate with there was an old dirt road and in there i found a very old axe head based on its shape it would have been handmade and at least from the mid-1800s in another spot i found an entire franklin stove all in pieces i still have the old fork and spoon and since it was the 70s i also found about 150 million pulled tabs [Music] you

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