Best Eyeball Find.....

[West Jersey Detecting]

With the nasty weather upon most of the country, many of us are unable to get out to detect. I thought it would be fun to show your best find without the aid of a metal detector.

One of my favorites came this summer at a park while scoping out a potential site during my lunch hour. I found this sterling ring sticking out of the ground. It is a nice men's "No.9" (engine company?) ring, weighing 7.6 grams.

POST YOUR FAVORITE EYEBALL FIND!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I found a 50 dollar bill on the floor at McD's a few months ago and questioned the patrons until I found the owner. I have found 50 dollar bills at least 3 times. I found 3 hundred dollar bills in an apartment dryer. I found a hedge full of twenties blown there by the wind. I have too many eyeball finds to list. This the most recent gold I found on the ground in a parking lot a few months ago.

 

[Montana Jim]

This is probebly my best eyeball find... (somebody had to do it...)

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

LMAO!!! Jim!!!!

bigcypresshunter..you are the real eagle eye!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

LMAO!!! Jim!!!!

bigcypresshunter..you are the real eagle eye!

I think its because Im always looking down when Im walking.

 

[Mike95inNJ]

These are all eyeball finds on the streets of Manhattan NYC. I have another cup full of the same just can't find it now. I also found a $50 bill and numerous coins and bills. Also I found a small bag of weed more than once. The barber I found after removing a piece of quarter round molding in a old house I was installing carpet in years ago. It looks like it found it's way under there in 1892. Nice shape minus the discoloring.
HH, Mike in NJ

 

[civilman1]

Elementary School down the road.....Barely innertwined in the grass....925,made in Italy!!

 

[viper771]

Great idea with this thread Neil. Eyeball finds are fun. If it is a cool enough find one can just go on home with no guilt......or not!! Here is my coolest eyeball find yet. It is a Scovill Model 1907M. It was fired from a 3" artillery gun. On the other side there is a set of dash-ed numbers with a 17 at the end. Camp Logan opened in 1917. I found this at 'Randy's place'.

The first one is a picture of a round with the case. This is not my photo or item.
http://www.big-ordnance.com/forsale/LCA/3inShrap1.jpg

The second is my Scovill 3" dirty and then clean.



Laater...

WOW!! Thats a unique delayed time fuse... used to explode over the trenches. I found a german ww2 one, which is similar with the hash marks along the side. cool find!

 

[Mirage]

yah whats on it?

On the scan disk - an arabic family pictures and softball stats and program. No address or anything or I would have returned it. Nothing too exciting.

Bob

 

[lordmarcovan]

Hmm. Tough choice for me.


This from last October.

This from January '03 was not my biggest but probably my best-quality megalodon shark tooth.

 

[Salvager]

WOW-I gotta start walking around with my eyes open!!!!

Great finds everyone!!!!

 

[EDDE]

over 300 golf balls in a garbage barrel i rested my md on to take a leak
filled up my whole backpack i had in the car it was bursting with balls

 

[dugupfinds]

A 1st-2nd century Bronze Roman Brooch.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

lordmarcovan:

WOW!!! Did you find that on the beach? I have found shark teeth, but never one larger than a dime!

 

[papa]

My best eye ball was in he late 70's. I was still working as a locksmith. Got a call to the local Holiday Inn,keys locked in car.Of course it was pouring down rain,so , after I got the car open,I stopped at the front desk on my way out.I knew they kept a fresh pot of coffee there.
This is like ten pm.After coffee and some BS with the guys there I started to leave.Just outside the door,looked down and about had a heart attack,There laying in the soaked driveway was $800.00,in cash.In twenty's,fifty's,and a few hundred dollar bills. Gathered it all up,went back inside,found out who checked out since the rain started. While we were trying to figure out who may lost the money,the front desk got a call,wanting to know if anything had been found.Yep,it was his,he got to the next town,stopped for gas and saw that his money was missing.When he came back,we found out he was on his way back home.His wife was having emergency surgery.That was all the money he had, his life savings.
Everything turned out for the better,he called later on,said his wife was fine.
Since then,the most I have found was a five dollar bill.

 

[doyboy]

Mr. Crist eyeballed a 1700s French silver coin in his field!

 

[RonNewbie]

Great finds everyone...kinda makes one wonder why we all need metal detectors when there are so many great things hidden in plain view...!

The two best "eyeball" finds I've ever found was 1.) a platinum, diamond bracelet, appraised at $1,750 and 2.) a solitary diamond pendant, appraised at $1,000. I found the bracelet in a mall parking lot and the diamond pendant on the ground at the state fair. We ran ads in the local paper for 60 days on each find but never had anyone claim them.

I hope I can be as lucky someday with my DFX...!

 

[OldBillinUT]

March 15,2006 I went to Wendover NV to give away some of my hard earned at the casinos there. I played away a few dollars in a quarter slot in one row and that was slow so I got up to play another machine. There was a row of them at right angles to the ones I had been on so I went that way. As soon as I walked to the end of my row and looked left I saw no one there and in an area under two stools the carpet was almost entirely covered with bills 5s 20s and 100s. At first I thought it had to be fake or a joke ect but looked closer and holey moley they were real and I scooped up a handful. Before I could pocket the bills a couple in their 70s came rushing around the end of the row all wild eyed and out of breath. The woman began thanking God and lambasting the man for losing their money. This all happened in maybe 2 or 3 minutes time. I looked up and asked them if the cash was theirs and they told me they had just left those two stools. I handed them what was in my hand then she really lit into him about being careless and now she would take care of their money. I walked over to another slot and hit an 1800.00 pot. What a crazy day. I sure got a lot of opinions about what I should have done.

 

[allen]

I have several but the most notable was a $100 bill at krogers a couple of years back. Theres a story behind this find also. At the time of this find we was about to lose our phone service and electric service ( i was on a layoff from work ) and my wife prayed for God to help us and i do believe he did. i also was called back to work a few days later

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

As someone mentioned, the first thing that pops into my mind when I see large bills(50 or 100) is that they are fake. I eyeballed a folded in half $50 bill on the floor at McDs with people standing in line walking all around it, looking up at the menu. I first thought it was fake for sure. It was real.

 

[lordmarcovan]

lordmarcovan:

WOW!!! Did you find that on the beach? I have found shark teeth, but never one larger than a dime!

Neil- that was found on dry land, all right, but not on the beach. Usually folks have to scuba dive riverbottoms to get teeth like that, but if one is savvy enough to find out where they dump the dredge spoil, there are lotsa teeth and other things in it. The dredge spoil comes from the bottom of St. Simons Sound, in the shipping channel. They pump it all up onto an island near our downtown waterfront.

I have found two megalodon teeth that were bigger than that- over 5 inches- roughly the size of the whole palm of my hand! But one of them had a corner knocked off and the other had a little damage to the tip. (The one I posted also has a minor chip near the tip, on its back side). The big ones tend to get a bit knocked around or broken by the dredge, so prime examples are rare. The one I posted is not a prime example, but pretty darn nice- like I said, it ain't my biggest, but it's my nicest! It was lying totally exposed in the bottom of a dried out puddle. I walked over and plucked it up! What a rush, to just walk over and pick up a fossil from a giant monster that died millions of years ago!

The extinct ancestor of today's great whites, megalodon sharks got to be the size of buses, and they preyed on whales (and probably anything else). I have been told, unscientifically, that you can roughly estimate the size of the shark by figuring ten feet of shark for every inch of tooth length. So my two biggest teeth would've come from 50'+ sharks, and this one was probably a medium sized meg, at around forty feet! (Cue up the Jaws theme, DJ!)

Oh, by the way- I am giving away a bunch of fossil shark teeth, including some small megalodons and a scarce Hemipristis Serra (Snaggletooth shark) piece that I found, in a contest over on the Collectors Universe Metal Detecting Forum:

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=564149

We're giving away a 1788 Spanish gold piece and some other cool stuff, too. It's a fun game.