Ever score a nice find then lose it ?

[pkb]

Few months ago I found a sweet silver wedding band. Had forgotten my pouch so I put in in my left pocket, regular finds in right. Got to truck and went to retrieve ring. Dam, hole in pocket. Its gone. Re searched the parking strip several times and never could find it. May have kicked it across parking lot. Its since been re blacked top. Doh !!

 

[dirtscratcher]

Found a 1887 seated dime and folded it in a piece of paper. Left in ashtray and my son decided to clean truck for me which has never happened before. Long story short their is a nice dime in the landfill.

 

[SusanMN]

Lost a ring, twice. Picked it up in a parking lot, it looked to be a thin gold band with the top broke off. I was disappointed when I couldn't find marks as I sat in my car looking at it and thought it was junk so I didn't look too hard after it popped off my finger and landed somewhere under the seat.

A few months later while cleaning the car I found it stuck deep into the floor mat, looked at it again and still couldn't see marks but stuck it on my finger so that I could get it home to look at it closer. Got home, and the the ring was no longer on my hand.

Another few months later I was changing purses, and there on the bottom was the band. This time it actually made it to the magnifying glass where I could see the 10k mark.

 

[Limitool]

I had a good hit (I think) on my machine a couple of weeks ago in the woods. The number was in the 70's and it said 9.5"-10" down. I didn't feel like digging that deep so I just marked the spot. Came back in a few days and ran machine over same spot. And... I got the same reading. I re-marked it again. Went back next day and said I'm digging it up. I couldn't even get a hit this time. Don't know what happened...??

 

[scotty544]

I found a really sweet looking civil war button, identified by a local expert, left it on my dresser in a tray and it mysteriously grew legs..... same thing with a gold chain and a class ring......I didn't actually lose them, but someone "lost" them for me

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Dug a quarter and a little kid that had been watching grabbed it and ran off. Durned grumbie.

 

[Slingshot]

Dug a 17 Buff, oxidized coal black, full horn, an absolutely gorgeous dug nickel. Put it in my cloth carpenters nail apron I was using to separate my goodies from my trash. Finally after a few hours of coin shooting I got back to the truck with my digging buddy, we both have to go to work, and went to show him the Buff and it wasn't in my pouch. Went back to the same place 2 more times and re-hunted after myself, but never found it again. Sigh! That was the buffalo that got away, but I think it was helped by a very wily Indian. Cheers!!

 

[bigfoot1]

took a huntin buddy with me on a lost ring call.when we arrived found out hubby threw his ring during an arguement with wifey.I had him throw a sample ring with red ribbon attached to roughly figure trajectory into tall thick grass.ribbon flew off and we never found sample ring(tungsten)found wedding band in knee high grass after over an hour in the summer heat.

After returning it to happy hubby,accepting a meager reward offered,he actually lost it again high fiving his neighbor...back in knee high grass.my buddy found it in bout a minute and we split quick..lol

 

[Skippy SH13]

Dug a quarter and a little kid that had been watching grabbed it and ran off. Durned grumbie.

That is HILARIOUS. !!!

I've GIVEN away coins, but to have one grab it and bolt is really funny.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Yep. Never said a peep. Was just this little Pre-K fellow squatting beside the hole as I explained the process. I was so stunned I didn't even yell after him.

Must have some seagull blood in him. Natural born Washington politician if ever there was one.

 

[TroutBumDave]

My first (and only, to date) silver coin was a Roosevelt dime, early 60's. I was stoked! I put it in my left pocket, which is reserved for pop tabs and coins, but when I got back to the car a few hours later, it was nowhere to be found. All of my other finds were in my pockets, but not the dime. No clue what happened.

 

[JimK]

My wife and I recently started relic hunting and where on a Union CW camp site. We had found a couple of pistol bullets and a nice dropped three ringer. Being new, these finds are very exciting to us as we had only found a few relics at that point. Anyway I put all of the finds in my plastic "good finds" box. When we got home and started cleaning I discovered my three ringer was missing. I have no idea what happened to it. Most likely dropped out when I was putting something else in. It still stings a bit to think that I loast such a cool relic.
JimK

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I've had a little tike (maybe a future politician) follow me around the tot lot and grab everything I dug, his mother had to come and save me! Lol!

 

[WildWildBill]

I posted about an 1805 5 berries draped bust dime I found and when I got home it wasn't where I placed it. At the time I thought it was a Spanish 1 reale because it was very dirty and unrecognizable. For a few weeks I pondered where it went to. I went back to the site where I found it, but nothing. Then, I was cleaning out my truck and there it was under the floor mat about ready to fall out a hole in the floor board. What luck!

 

[TommyB]

I take a little caribiner hooked on my I detect at the beach. I put any rings I find on that so they don't get lost

 

[Old Dude]

Last fall, I found my one and only SLQ. It was the very first target at a permission I got in a town about an hour and a half away from me. When I got home, I found it and the little keeper I had put it in were missing from my pouch. If I remember correctly, it was a 1918 and had pretty good detail for a coin that usually has the date worn away.