Sell any of your finds?

[rush30]

Do any of you sell your finds? I've seen a lot of cool finds, and i think if you kept all of your finds, you would need to build a addition to your homes! Do you give some of your finds as gifts? Like all the nice rings that have been found? I have a little box with my junk finds, and i think it would be hard to just throw them away. Is that the way all of you feel? That no matter what you find, a diamond ring, or a piece of scrap, that you just can't part with it?

rush

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

I have not sold anything yet. I have melted down some gold and had jewelry made for my wife. Have given a few finds away and had a few contests with finds. Hard to part with them! HH, Mike

 

[disharoon]

Hello,
I usually don't throw away much. All the things I can't identfy and other cool things I keep. My little daughter usually goes with me evertime I go and she saves "everything." She'll pull out the jars of "treasures" and talk about how we found them, where we went, where we ate lunch or whatever. I couldn't throw them away or sell them because they have memories of time we spent together. They are all treasures to us.

 

[Moonshadow]

I don't hang onto typical junk.....just the interesting stuff. I have recently thrown away broken costume jewelry and stuff that wasn't of any value. I don't have alot of space to store alot. I plan of getting a display case and putting all my jewelry and nice coin finds in. It will make a neat conversation piece!

HH,
Moon

 

[bootstrap vinn]

Hey rush 30, Yeah I've sold a few things. Netted $850 for a belt buckle once.Sold an 1807/6 lg. cent at an auction once, it had a big chunk chiseled off one edge,sold it mainly out of curiosity just to see what a coin like that would bring being so damaged.It brought 42.50, not bad for the condition. I used to give all my silver rings to my ex, now I give them to my girlfriend.As far as all the scrap metals go, all the junk Iron is discarded all the brass and copper goes in buckets and gets saved up till theres enough to scrap,copper is $1.60 a pound right now so it all has value eventually.There's my two cents,have a good one Bootstrap

 

[teklord]

I have a bucket full of lead fishing weights. Talked to a few guys fishing on the beach and all of them were interested in buying them. Next time I will being the bucket along and try to unload some.
1) fisherman buy weights
2) fishermen loose weights
3) I find them
4) sell back to fishermen
5) buy more batteries....

 

[dugupfinds]

I sell nothing of importance. I have 2 safes full of stuff, and rotate displays in the local Museum.

Most of the junk including what you call colonial coins went in the hedge. Although now I sell the junk I use to throw away on ebay.

I do sometimes give people with special interests the odd thing or 2.

 

[free4dan]

Many memories

 

[halfdime]

One of my goals in MD'ing is to gather coin collections for each of my kids. A lot of the Mercuries I find I already have, so I trade. When I get 50 silver dimes (Roseys and Mercs), I roll them and trade for coins I don't have at a local dealer. I also leave a lot of coins with people who give me permission to search their property. Many Mercuries and Indians disappear this way, and the owners usually appreciate the gesture. I was fortunate recently to leave a 42 Walker as a gift, since I have found four of that date and mint (nice situation to have, don't you think?). The owner is happy to have me back anytime 8). I don't leave silver Washingtons and Roseys because they just don't look like anything special, or different. When I get a roll of excess Washingtons, I'll trade them too. I do have some remorse for trading two gold wedding rings I found.

 

[skierbob]

I've traded a lot of stuff for things that I really wanted. For instance, a few years ago I traded some of my duplicate silver coins with a value of $450 for an 1898 gold double eagle in AU condition. That way, I reduced my inventory and picked up something I really liked.
Bob

 

[DrDetector]

I once found an intact Mountain Dew can while searching a sanded area up in Michigan. I redeemed it for the 10 cent deposit. Does that count?

 

[gold fish]

I have a bucket full of lead fishing weights. Talked to a few guys fishing on the beach and all of them were interested in buying them. Next time I will being the bucket along and try to unload some.
1) fisherman buy weights
2) fishermen loose weights
3) I find them
4) sell back to fishermen
5) buy more batteries....

Step one; buy underpants.......

I haven't sold anything yet, I really haven't found anything worth more than it's sentimental value. I could probably get $30-40 for my half dime, but it was THE FIRST coin I EVER dug, so it's worth more to me than that. I'm hoping to someday get a coin that's worth a few hundred or more, we'll see. I like the Idea of digging re-cyclables, I found an old home site that is littered with COPPER siding, I intend to thouroughly excavate it in the coming year.

 

[Eu_citzen]

I don't sell either, if I don't need to...

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

I have every silver coin and ring I have ever found, dating back to late 70's. I had found a bunch of gold rings in New Orleans, and sold those, but that was about it. I save every piece of copper and it goes into my scrap bin. My brother gives me his scrap copper he finds , and I give him the fishing weights I find. I have not found anywhere near the silver other folks have (I have about 250 pieces), but I still have every one. I do turn in my clad though time to time after putting them thru the tumbler.

 

[silverswede]

I have sold a few things on eBay. One in particular was a Huckleberry Hound cereal spoon from the 50's. Got $20.00 for it. Things that are collectible like that seem to go the best, like some hot wheel cars. If you search eBay for certain coins and tokens many times you see the same thing you found, but like mint and for much less bucks than you'd accept for yours. I keep hoping someday a relic museum curator will come by and take a couple of boxes outta my shed.

 

[lonewolfe]

I eventually sell almost everything as time passes -

it's like an endless cycle for me -

I used to keep "everything" until I figured out I could buy more detecting gear to find more stuff by selling/scrapping, etc.

I do save the "best of the best" in display cases but even that changes as time goes on and you find other things to replace some/most of it!

To each his own~

HH

 

[rush30]

Thanks for all of the replies! I don't know what i would do if i found something of great value. Hopefully i'll find out one day!
rush

 

[shadowwalker]

I sold about 15 years of finds. Back in 1988. I bought a 357 pistol. I used it to have detecting. I had it stolen from me out of my camper. While I was prospecting in wyoming. I guess that is how it goes sometimes.

 

[Sandman]

I've sold stuff and then wondered where it was. I've even lost stuff here in the house. In the garage I have five gal. buckets of hair pins, another full of barrettes. What for I have no idea. I'd just empty my pouch and look at the junk like it was good stuff.

 

[Kas]

Yep, sold a whole trash can full of aluminum for 80 bucks to the scrap yard. And they say aluminum is junk.