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Favorite 2025 Find by Al C.
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Above is Al's favorite find of 2025, with his story immediately below.
I’m still shaking my head and a little sore about this one.
A buddy of mine got permission for a very old house and several acre property in South Carolina. It sounded great being right on one of the main stage coach roads back in the day. He had hunted it briefly once before and found a nice half dime so it sounded full of potential. The old home had been redone and was beautiful as was the meticulously landscaped property. Not the kind of place you wanted to be digging giant holes for sure. I extricated several wheat cents with the Deus 2 and the 9 inch coil with surgical precision returning the hinged sod and leaving no trace of what I had done. A couple Chinese coins too. Lots of old brass and copper bits and pieces typical of an old homesite, but no silver. A few deep mason jar lids had me sure I had found a nice large silver coin but it was not to be. Until I got this crazy, bizarre, bouncy, hi low, deep shallow sounding target. I saw the giant reeded edge of silver right away after flipping the plug. I told myself it was likely some weird piece of trash as it had been for so many years and holes before. But no. Not this time. But…. How in the heck did I hit that coin. Unbelievable. I’m sure many of your readers know that thrill of finding something you never thought you would. But how do you mix that with putting a deep scratch right across Lady Liberties face? Months later the confusion remains.
But, at the end of the day, or year, I’ve never sold any of my finds and this will remain in my possession until my son inherits it. The story and memory is the real value.
Thanks for sharing Al.
I know what you mean about having the mixed feelings of making a great find and then noticing that you put a big scratch on it. I've done that myself.
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And here are Mark G.'s totals for 2025
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| 2025 Ring Finds by Mark G. |
These find photos and following find summary for 2025 is from Mark G.
Time for finds of the year.
After 198 hunts for the year, I keep a photo record of each hunt, here are the categories:
Rings:
47 in total: (not all pictured)
5 Solid Gold
2 Pandora Gold plated (still valuable)
9 Silver
4 Marked tungsten, stainless or titanium
27 Unmarked junk (some nice and some not)
Bracelets:
2 Silver
Chains:
1 Gold (only found because it was attached to a junk chain, see photo)
2 Silver
12 Fake (could be more I give the nice ones away)
Coins:
Approx $150 in cleaned clad
5 Tokens
Not as much foreign coins this year?
Lead:
Found enough lead to smelt into 15 pounds of 16oz and 12oz cannonball sinkers for son in law snapper fishing.
Best Find:
My first solid gold marked ring this year after a year and a half of hunting, 5 total this year.
Strangest Find: Actually have 2
One is, or are, I found 2 this year, what I call hair bracelets, they are woven from human hair as viewed through microscope.
And the other is a gold plated grill for a golden smile.
More of Mark's finds shown below.
Thanks for sharing Mark.
Great way to keep track of finds. You'll appreciate the records and memories for years to come.
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Keep the finds of 2025 coming in. Looking at last years finds is a good way to get excited for the New Year.
Send you totals for last year or your favorite, unusual or surprising finds of 2025.
Happy New Year,
Treasureguide@comcast.net.
