Found my 1st cache --- at a garage sale!

[spyguy]

Hello Friends,
For years and years I've read about (voraciously), lived and breathed finding a cache of coins in the dirt. Spent a small fortune on equipment including a 2-box detector and spent some lonely days sweating out kayak trips to some local uninhabited "hot" treasure islands here in the bay area. And countless other sites. In short, I've paid my dues, but they truly have not paid me back --- yet....
Anyway, my purpose for posting was a small cache of coins I found a couple weeks back at a local garage sale. There were 24 mostly foreign coins in a ziploc bag highlights include; a replica 1854 'gold' double eagle, a 1929 mercury dime in (G)ood (low grade shape), a hexagonal shaped peso from the '70s, a small coin from Panama and a token for the "Bellair Causeway" token (date unknown) from across the bridge in Pinellas County. Anyway, no haggling was involved as the bag of coins was on a table marked .50 cents.... Don't know that much about coins, but I think the 1929 mercury dime has a value that easily covers my investment. I guess the old treasure adage is true --- anything can be anywhere and I'd like to add --- at any price!
HH
-spyguy

[batcap]

The value of the silver in your dime is about $2.65 today. http://www.coinflation.com/
That's a 500% profit, and you still have all the other coins and tokens. I'd jump on deals like that all day long! Congratulations!

[redfish76]

spyguy
Cool finds and I never knew that people had to use tokens to cross the bellair bridge, I use to live on the first street on the right on the bait house side but now live in Seminole .... Small world

[cheese]

Nice catch on the coins! It is a small world, isn't it? I used to live in Seminole too. Right off of 82nd avenue.

[batcap]

Hey Spyguy -- I'm going to post another thread in Garage Sales about a stash of foreign coins I found yesterday at an auction\flea market. The thing is, my story is so much like yours that I'm a little uncomfortable posting it. It's almost like I plagiarized your story. It's obvious I had read your post, because I've previously responded to it. It happened, what more can I say?

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Keep @ it and HH !!

[spyguy]

Batcap,
Our stories kind of define treasure hunter's irony, huh...?
HH
-spyguy