Treasure Hoard Found! Gold, Silver, Bullion!

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Another garbage dump has released its treasure to me, (bare in mind it took me several smelly hours of rummaging to amass all of this treasure into one place). Everything you see below was the result of painstaking sorting of garbage from over 15 bags of junk and filth. Was it worth it? Heck yea!

First treasure I pulled out (and by far one of my favorite pieces from the hoard) is the 1991 1oz Silver Eagle bullion coin (complete with protective plastic case and a holder)! At first I didn't expect to find anything in the case (as I had found a few empty cases already) but when I picked it up it rattled in my hand, I didn't think much of it - I thought it would contain a cheesy trinket. When I opened the case I was in shock for a good 5 minutes at least, it had always been my dream to find a bullion coin!

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Second treasure I pulled out was the watch, I didn't think anything of the broken old watch at first but when I looked inside the gear mechanism I saw a golden thing sticking out, turned out to be a broken 14K gold ring! How did that happen!? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!

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Next I found a small plastic zip-lock bag and inside were old Chinese currency notes (10 Yuan notes from the 1940's and older 10 Dollar notes from the 1920's).

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There was also a bill I always dreamed of owning - a Hyperinflation banknote from 1920's Germany! This one was specifically from the early days of the German hyperinflation (September 15th 1922 "1,000 Mark" note).

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So unlike later German hyperinflation notes this one is more detailed and has printing on both sides(Once the Germans got to printing 1,000,000 Mark notes there was only printing on one side, and it was pretty bland looking).

At the bottom of the bag were some coins: 2 Eisenhower dollars, a Sacagawea dollar, and two clad Kennedy half dollars. But there were also two silver coins too! A 40% silver 1968 Kennedy Half Dollar and a 50% Silver 1939 King George VI "Two Shilling" coin.

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I later found a small sterling silver ring...

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...and then a sterling silver pendant...

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...at this point I thought I had found everything, so I packed up my stuff and headed home. Later while I was looking through a small package I had initially thought nothing of I found perhaps the most expensive item of the hoard - a 14K White-Gold Diamond Earring!

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I looked up the company ("Fufoo") and discovered that the earring set retailed for over $250, but alas I only had found one of the pair, so I really have no idea of the value of the single earring, but according to the company each earring has .8 carat diamonds in it if that means anything in terms of value.

I also found an interesting 1980 Bear sticker, I think it's the Soviet Union's Olympic mascot.
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That's all for now.
 

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RelicDude

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Wow it's amazing what people will throw away.

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My bet is that there is probably more treasure in the landfills of the Earth than there is in the collections of all the treasure hunters alive. Just picture the vast fortunes that were indiscriminately thrown away over the centuries either by accident or purposefully by people who just didn't know the value of what they had. Just picture that 19th century wall safe, forgotten by time after its owner died, found 100 years later by a demolition crew who just toss it into a landfill never to know the breathtaking fortune of gold, diamonds, and bearer bonds that were sealed within.
 

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Absolutely amazing that all this ended up in the rubbish ! Good for you - Very Nice Finds !!!
 

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Totally cool finds!!!!!!!!!
 

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love to dumpster dive. I also have found some neat items over the yrs
 

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Modell's Sporting Goods was my favorite dumpster diving experience when I was a teenager with my friend, we got all our stuff - clothes, shoes, roller blades, skate boards, baseball bats, basket balls, so much stuff that we sold the extra to our friends (we didn't tell them our secret of how we got them of coarse). 75% of the stuff was in perfect like-new condition - mostly floor models and returns (apparently the store couldn't re-sell certain things so they tossed them out instead), the other 25% of the stuff was damaged clothes and shoes - so I learned how to sew clothes and repair shoes. At one time I had a collection of over 100 pairs of shoes still new in their boxes and another collection of damaged shoes that I would repair and wear out. I wore a different pair of shoes to school every day and eventually my friends concluded that I either very rich or had connections to a shoe mafia who supplied me. That was 10 years ago. Unfortunately all good things come to an end. Nowadays the store no longer throws anything good away, apparently some idiot dumpster divers started trying to return the stuff they pulled from the dumpster back to the store for cash, the store got angry and so now they destroy all the stuff before they throw it in the dumpster (by ripping it up and spraying it with red paint). So sad, all that wasted stuff, a new generation of kids will now never know the secret treasure trove that once sat behind that store.
 

BigWaveDave

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...Look into that sticker...that might be $$$ as well
 

jewelerguy

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amazing what people will throw away :icon_scratch:
 

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Nice digging (even if it was through the trash)
 

Garrett424

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Holy S**t!!! AGAIN?? What kind of idiots throw this stuff away??

I really need to find some trash spots like you find. I'd rummage through pretty much anything for a haul like that.
Incredible.
 

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I specifically look for trash sometimes if a building is being cleaned out or if there are renovations on a home (I live in NYC so this is going on all the time), they sometimes throw away the entire contents of the place without really looking through it. Bare in mind I only find "real treasure (like gold and silver)" on very rare occasions, but you can find nice things that aren't technically "treasures" like household items - pots, spoons, tools, furniture, etc. One time an arcade went out of business and they tossed out all their machines. I got a nice 1979 Gorgar pinball machine out of that. That's why I love this hobby, you never know what you're going to discover next - every day is an adventure! :tongue3:
 

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Where I am from, NYS, municipal waste facilities (dumps) are very well fenced in, and are strictly off limits to everyone. Nice work!.
 

Garrett424

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Where I am from, NYS, municipal waste facilities (dumps) are very well fenced in, and are strictly off limits to everyone. Nice work!.

Me too.

There are a few old dumps out in the woods in my area from the days when that's what people did. I remember going back and dumping stuff with my Dad and my friends dad's when I was a kid. It was an adventure and lots of fun. We would almost always find something that was cool to us.

My son and a friend were picking through one a few years back. They were only about 10 years old at the time. I didn't know that they were even aware of that location.

The friend found a really cool looking cane and brought it home. About two years later while moving it, it came apart in two pieces, revealing a hidden, engraved Nazi sword inside. Neither one of them could believe it.

You just never know. Also, I had no idea my son had wandered so far back in the woods at that age. I did the same thing all the time when I was a kid but kids don't do things like that so much these days.
 

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doninbrewster

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Now that's cool! One mans trash is another mans treasure. Glad to see you were rewarded for your efforts. I like it!
 

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Awesome! :occasion16::wav::occasion16: You're definitely a master of the hobby! :hello2: :headbang: :hello2:

Last time I dumpster-dived was 10 years ago in shopping centers for boxes when my sis & I were clearing out the home our mom & dad had lived in for 65 years. We'd bought some boxes, but those weeks of sorting our beloved parents' things had become depressing, so one day we went dumpster diving for more boxes -- both of us in our sixties, grey-haired & laughing! Must've looked hilarious to see one plump old lady (me) & one thin old lady (sis) flipping ourselves part-way over the edge of big dumpsters to pull out the good boxes, lol. :tongue3: Have Fun! Andi :cat:
 

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I stop at every house clean-out dumpster I see - if its an older person who has passed away - there is nearly always something silver (and once in awhile gold) in there - you can usually tell at first glance if it will be good or not - house clean-out crews or disinterested relatives really go fast when trying to put a house on market - - of course - Im looking for weird stuff like old household products and food packaging (yup..) so the gold/silver/etc is just a bonus....
 

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