wildcarrot
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That's how I found my first treasure in 1964 while riding my bicycle over to a friends house and spied some green paper in the grass on the roadside. I went back to check it and it was a $20 bill. This was in the day when minimum wage was $1 an hour so this was half of someone's pay. That $20 kept me in .22 Long Rifles through Squirrel and Rabbit seasons. I was getting 10 cents for every squirrel tail from Herter's in Minnesota for fly tyers. Of course a 16 oz Grape Nehi was a dime and a Butterfinger was a nickle and that box of .22 LR were 95 cents and you didn't have to be 21 to buy them.
That's pretty awesome! Someone a few years ago posted something about how we MDers will spend 20 minutes digging a signal that turns out to be a nickel but we wont bend over in the Wal-Mart parking lot to pick up a penny.