Whats your best surface find?

[chub]

I once found a $5...then a $20...then a $10.... total was about $70 in a pub car park. I was 10 years old so that was a fortune in those days. I recently found an iphone on top of a payphone (??) in Switzerland...not quite a surface find

Ive found a number of buttons and a 1880's penny on a rock.

Whats your best or most unusual /interesting surface find?

Chub

 

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[Coil-2-Soil]

I work as a custodian at a middle school and was walking around the corner of the building to the dumpster and found a twenty dollar bill wrapped up with a fifty dollar bill. Got real excited until the new girl said she lost her bill money and it was the same bills I had just found. Gave it back and got a thanks. Oh well! HH

 

[Professor of Engineering]

My best jewelry find was in a playground area near the baby swings...a GOLD men's wedding band (probably a Dad swinging his child)!

The best farm field surface (3/4 of it out of the ground) find was a seated quarter!

 

[toddbbq]

5 $20,s last year at the beach and this year a $50 in the wet sand whuhuu

 

[Icewing]

A big pink granite mill stone on the upper edge of a creek bank, but the property owner didn't let me get it when I told him what it was.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

It was November 6, 1961, and my stepfather's birthday, in Brosville, Va. I was walking around on the playground at school kicking dirt clods, I was 12.

One of the clods I kicked contained a 1767 Spanish one reale, and I gave it to my stepfather for his birthday. When he passed it was returned to me, and I then passed it to my son.

And that's what got me dreaming of treasure. It's there if just we could find it

 

[GB1]

a $20

 

[creskol]

Here is my best surface find .. found him as a puppy.. severely neglected and near death on the shoulder of a road in Texas.

 

[Red James Cash]

A 1.5 ounce 22k bracelet parking my car at a grocery store.I pulled in and saw something shiny on the ground so I parked right next to it.Opened my door and reached down,why hello there.

 

[aa battery]

my wife.

 

[Dsorgnzd]

A 14k gold necklace, found in a parking lot. Second place, a Washington quarter.

 

[smokeythecat]

A 1774 Gold English Guinea at the ocean and a 14k man's wedding ring some 20 years before in a driveway.

 

[ARC]

510 dollars... after a BB King concert in a park.

rolled up... 10 ones on outside... thought it was a roll of ones.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

My wife?




BAH! AA Battery beat me!

 

[BigWaveDave]

About 15 years ago I found a hundy, downtown Ft. Myers.....
$100 goes quick at the bars here.

 

[Megalodon]

Same here Charlie & AA - found an amazing auburn haired beautiful girl in college in 1975; married her in 1981.

Second best would be the 1806 large cent in nice shape found in 1985 on the surface of a plowed field at the site of a house burned by the British in 1814 during their raids along the Chesapeake Bay. Researched the home site, confirmed the location from a small plane (charcoal), got permission, and then was frustrated by strong interference from power line. Found the large cent walking back to the truck.

 

[tinpan]

Hi, I assume you missionary boys couldnot handle more than one women. TP

 

[chub]

my wife.

was she facing up or down?

Chub

 

[Tpmetal]

1800's octagon musket barrel, tripped over it.

 

[RustyGold]

A 1957 Daisy BB gun rifle under the Christmas tree. One for me and one for my twin brother. What trouble could that possibly bring? Ouch! I can still smell the Daisy BB gun oil that came with it. I love that smell to this day.