Found Gold today but not nuggets! KINDA SPOOKY!

[Duraflap]

I was detecting today with my AT Pro on the Rogue River here in Oregon and was finding quite a few clad coins when I got a nice solid repeatable signal at the waters edge. Depth reading was 6 inches and I was working the pin pointer with every trowel full of dirt for the recovery. Wow! Gold! What a surprise! When I was cleaning the gold and could see exactly what it was I was pretty surprised. It was a solid gold tooth crown. After I finished checking out everything for several yards around I ended up with two crowns and a lead looking partial with three teeth impressions. As the situation sank in I kinda got spooked as one crown could have been a jet ski face plant but two and a partial. How weird a find is that? I ended up calling the state police once I got back home and they talked it all over amongst themselves and decided I could keep the gold as they felt that there was no way of knowing where to start to investigate the origin of this find. They did admit this is the strangest call they have ever received and from a detectorist at that.

 

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[Back-of-the-boat]

The green river killer was just a state away and there are, he claims, more bodies?

 

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[CMDiamonddawg]

The green river killer was just a state away and there are, he claims, more bodies?

Very interesting ,

ha yes weird , identity clue from beyond to solve a green river murder victim cold case .

 

[Plumbata]

It's likely that the caps were just a part of a load of trash that got dumped into the river long ago. Occam's razor, ya know.

I'm not sure if the video is still around on youtube, but a dump digger found a small embossed jar which originally held 1 ounce of gold dental alloy that was partially filled with old gold crowns/fillings. Obviously, the dentist just threw the fillings away along with the rest of the garbage. And in a load of junk from a house cleanout, I found a very old gold-capped lower front incisor, with root and all that the dentist must have let the owner keep after it was yanked, so if the pieces weren't tossed by a dentist then they may have been pitched by the person whose mouth they were originally extracted from.

I don't get why people seem so creeped out by dental gold. It's pretty silly and devoid of common-sense in my opinion (a gold is a gold is a gold...) but what can ya do.

 

[ecmjamsit]

At least you tried to take a bite out of crime.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It's likely that the caps were just a part of a load of trash that got dumped into the river long ago. Occam's razor, ya know.

I'm not sure if the video is still around on youtube, but a dump digger found a small embossed jar which originally held 1 ounce of gold dental alloy that was partially filled with old gold crowns/fillings. Obviously, the dentist just threw the fillings away along with the rest of the garbage. And in a load of junk from a house cleanout, I found a very old gold-capped lower front incisor, with root and all that the dentist must have let the owner keep after it was yanked, so if the pieces weren't tossed by a dentist then they may have been pitched by the person whose mouth they were originally extracted from.

I don't get why people seem so creeped out by dental gold. It's pretty silly and devoid of common-sense in my opinion (a gold is a gold is a gold...) but what can ya do.

Yeah but logic isn't as fun as letting your mind run wild with other scenarios.

 

[Duraflap]

Well, I went back Sat and searched more thoroughly the immediate area to be certain there wasn't anything that was missed that might indicate malice. I took the AT Pro into the water and spent quit a bit of time searching but didn't find anything relative to this mystery. Then researched the already searched beach with my MX5 for an additional second look. Good news is nothing new.
On a side note, I did find in the water where someone had apparently seeded the sand bar about 10 feet out with pennies. I recovered 19 all together. All bright and shiny. It was entertaining but I wish they had used quarters....