Have you ever almost threw away something thinking it was junk/scrap .?

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Threw my MD unit away instead of my weed whip...damn stupid of me :laughing7:
 

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Once, and I did toss it. Was a worn flat silver coin bent into a love token.
 

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I have done it quite a few times now :dontknow: but I did manage to recover them :laughing9: this was the last one, 13th century Heraldic Pendant 8)

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When I was in England with a metal detecting tour I found a teardrop shaped piece of metal I thought was just a piece of junk. It was about 3 inches long, 1 inch wide. At every site we hunted we had archaeological experts examine all our finds before we left the fields. When I turned in my piece of "junk" the archaeologist almost did a back flip. What I had found was a hand tool (chisel) from the bronze age, dated about 2000 B.C.! They told us before every hunt that we should not throw any thing away, glad I didn't.
 

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Silver Searcher said:
I have done it quite a few times now :dontknow: but I did manage to recover them :laughing9: this was the last one, 13th century Heraldic Pendant 8)

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Well at least you have proof a picture :thumbsup:
 

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Sonoma County Mike said:
When I was in England with a metal detecting tour I found a teardrop shaped piece of metal I thought was just a piece of junk. It was about 3 inches long, 1 inch wide. At every site we hunted we had archaeological experts examine all our finds before we left the fields. When I turned in my piece of "junk" the archaeologist almost did a back flip. What I had found was a hand tool (chisel) from the bronze age, dated about 2000 B.C.! They told us before every hunt that we should not throw any thing away, glad I didn't.
Wow! :headbang:
 

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GroundS.KeepeR said:
Iron Patch said:
Once, and I did toss it. Was a worn flat silver coin bent into a love token.
I would have tried to fix it :thumbsup:


It didn't need fixing, I just needed to believe the ID I was told by my diggin bud. I said no, it's junk and threw it out. Two weeks later I seen one in a treasure magazine mixed with various other old finds.
 

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Iron Patch said:
GroundS.KeepeR said:
Iron Patch said:
Once, and I did toss it. Was a worn flat silver coin bent into a love token.
I would have tried to fix it :thumbsup:


It didn't need fixing, I just needed to believe the ID I was told by my diggin bud. I said no, it's junk and threw it out. Two weeks later I seen one in a treasure magazine mixed with various other old finds.
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When I first started detecting I dug 2 civil war period picket pins. Thinking they were from logging or farming I stuck them in a tree. A few days later I saw 2 in the local relic shop and asked the owner about them. He told me what they were and I went back to get the ones I found. You guessed it, they were gone. Probably the same two I saw in the shop. :'(
 

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vayank54 said:
When I first started detecting I dug 2 civil war period picket pins. Thinking they were from logging or farming I stuck them in a tree. A few days later I saw 2 in the local relic shop and asked the owner about them. He told me what they were and I went back to get the ones I found. You guessed it, they were gone. Probably the same two I saw in the shop. :'(
How much was he asking for them?
 

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