What's your coolest eyeball find?

WheatFromChaff

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I'm used to finding lots of loose change on the floors around school, about $0.75 worth each week usually, but today being Pearl Harbor Day, I got a real kick out of finding a 1941 wheat this morning.

Just a cool coincidence, but it made me wonder what other neat coins/treasure people find just laying on the ground.
Any silver?
Key or semi-key dates?
Jewelry?

What are some of your coolest eyeball finds?
My inquiring mind wants to know.

-WFC
 

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fish1on

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Nothing spectacular but my job allows me to work at many many different buildings so I am constantly looking down.

I find clad in parking lots almost every day. I also like to hunt around bushes or fences on the usual down wind parts of parks and parking areas, have found paper currency many times
 

Buchsy

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I have a number of them:

$20 bill in a bar parking lot

1893 Columbia Expo and Barber Halfs in 1K bags

A peace and morgan in a single bag of Ikes

9 Morgan and Peace dollars from a bank teller.
 

SD51

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Here's mine... I found this around July and posted it then.

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Keith Jackson

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This find wasn't anything special, but I still remember it as being my first eyeball find. I could not have been more than 5 or 6 and I was with my family in a train station in Boston. We had walked into the snack bar and I found a Spanish 5 cent (or whatever they used) piece laying on a bench.
 

mxh5891

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Eyeballed a 43 mercury dime under a coin star machine last year.
 

Loco-Digger

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Did someone ask for an eyeball find? :tongue3:
 

1637

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i love finding green glass railroad balls.
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1637

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i love finding green glass railroad marbles.
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BigWaveDave

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When I was a kid, (in MA)....I was playing in the dirt beneath my porch.... found a 1865 Sheild nickel
That's all I can think of...
Oh wait, I did find a $100 bill once, but lost it within a few hours.....:dontknow:
 

smokeythecat

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A few years ago I eyeballed a 1774 Gold British Guinea just as the machine saw it. Twas a tie!
 

Peyton Manning

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I have to say it was the stone adz I found which I was told predates the mound builders in this part of indiana
 

barneyb71

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I find change everyday, somewhere around $1 - $2 a week. I have found bills before, $1 here and there. In March I found a $40 lottery ticket and a few months ago I found $45 in a parking lot. I was going to try and keep track of my finds but that to time consuming for me.
 

TheMastermind

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Sometime in 2015, can't remember when exactly, I was in a TD Bank dumping coins. When I got up to the teller to give them the ticket from the coin machine I noticed a piece of paper on the ground next to my feet that looked just like a ticket from the coin machine.

Picked the piece of paper up and sure enough it was a ticket from the coin machine from almost three hours prior, for something like $78.

Gave both my ticket and the ticket I had found on the ground to the teller and she cashed me out for both.

She was a little suspect at first, since the ticket was from a few hours earlier, but I had just told her I was in here earlier and there was a big line so I just decided to come back later.

Was a good day.
 

foundhound

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More finds by eye than ever with my detector... to name a few, silver and turquoise ring, silver ring, gold ring, meterorite, fossilized bones and others, fossil imprints, gold bracelet , gold necklace and pendant, $50 bill in envelope,$ 20 bill suspended underwater in ocean, $20 bill, several $10 and $5 dollar bills, tens upon tens of singles $, and hundreds in change! crystals, rocks, drug paraphanila...keys, foreign coins, old coins, damaged and mangled coins, tools, large ship anchor in fresh shallow water and the list goes on...
 

bertmaster2000

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Every weekday I eat lunch at the same café. There is an atm immediately inside the front door of the café.

One time I found 3, $20's just outside the café door, and another time I found a single $20 just outside the café door...Easiest $80 I've ever eyeballed...Believe me, I'll keep eyeballing this locale!

Also, my daughter found a wad of cash when we were vacationing in southern Bolivia a few years ago. It contained $720! A few minutes later we realized my friend had dropped his "travel cash" as he dismounted the horse he had been riding (true!) :laughing7:
 

bill_wabo

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1888 canada 25 cents in a park last october.
 

Blak bart

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You mean like this photo-282.JPG
Or does anything count. When hunting the beach we called this being teed up, like a golf ball. My arrowhead hunting friend taught me that. Guess they find a lot of arrowheads like that. I couldnot count how many pieces ive eyeballed. Many times I see the object before I swing the coil over it. Being a beach comber all things are eye balled. But while metal detecting I have found 2 cobs. photo-69.JPG
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Oh ya......I did eyeball my wife across the room at a party
And then went and talked to her.i think I like foundhounds answer best . I could go on and on with things ive eyeballed. But im assuming that you mean while MDing. I have found money many times the largest amount being 1300$ in front of a bank blowing around the parking lot. At least 3 other people had handfuls of bills that day.i did not turn it in I kept mine. A couple years ago I slipped on a wad of bills in the parking lot of a gas station it was 400$ I went right to the gun shop and bought an ak-47 with it.
 

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