goofiest relic find

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

About 1980 I was searching an entire block that was torn down for a strip mall in a residential section of Bloomington, Illinois. I got a huge signal and when I dug it I had an exact replica of the key to Independence Hall in Philadelphia that had been issued by a defunct bank in 1876 to celebrate the US Centennial and was given to their biggest depositors. I hauled it to the local truck stop to show my friends and that launched a bidding war that ended when I accepted a hundred bucks for it. I had not been trying to sell it. An AU barber dime found the same day was also sold to onlookers at the truckstop so I had a one day haul of over $200 and still had all the other coins I found. I've made more in a day before and since then but never that easily. Exanimo, SS

 

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[coinshooter]

I found one of those rubber toy knives (with a metal pin it it). It looks like a full sized buck knife, but is blue plastic.
Also found a nudie heads tails coin.

 

[abrakdabra]

Hmm, goofiest relic find. Nothing as goofy as you guys, but goofy in my own way.
Like a shovel for example, kind of ironic. Digging up something that was used to dig. I think it was a very old shovel blade, and of a certain old shovel style, and I debated inwardly about keeping this but feared this would lead to 'old shovel blade collecting' and decided to leave it alone
How about bottle openers. Sure, they're old bottle openers. With some kind of old style plastic inset into the metal. And the opener part is the width for an old style, narrow bottle cap. But it's still just a friggin bottle opener. I've found a couple of those. Left it alone, no collection officially but they have been WD-40'd and 'await further assessment
How about a wire grill, for barbequeing. What was that doing on a slope in the woods beside an old fort? Why, it was a picnic. I hung it on a tree, no collection. The detector went nuts. I thought it was a whole suit of armor

 

[neu]

goofiest relics... seems like all i can find anymore is goofy things, i was detecting out at my house today, a place i have hunted for years, hoping to turn up the remains of the old cabin that burned down here, i always seem to find something that my brother or me buried as kids, along with burned up cans, tin roofing, shovels, toy soldiers, i think the goofiest thing i found out here i found today, i got a great signal, dug for about 25 minutes, i started seeing the rust in the soil about 6 inches down and started digging with my hands so i wouldnt mess it up, turned out to be a mason jar full of gi-joes that my oldest brother buried, part of his time capsule.

 

[downindixie]

I used to get a chuckle every time I dug up a "3 Merry Widows" tin,Agnes,Becky & ?.Anyone remember the third ones name?

 

[coinshooter]

Does this count. I dug it at about 1 ft down on the beach. 8)

 

[daytondigger]

While wading through sting weeds and poison ivy on a quest for a buried payroll, I located a large target that was a few inches down in a swampy area. I was certain I had found the payroll!!! Digging all around it, I pried it up and discovered a "No Tresspassing" sign!?! I was 12 and it was my first "treasure" hunt.

 

[The Pete]

Mine was finding a pot pipe that was a few inches down, it was still full. Any suggestions how to determine if the owner was ripped off?

 

[The Pete]

Different things are keepers to some people! i hate to think they dropped it and didn't notice.

 

[Lowbatts]

Too funny!

 

[msalmon]

I was on my way home from my parents house turned the corner and there was a metal detector lying in the middle of the road. one of those bobcat detectors. had a loose wire soldered it and it worked fine. kind of funny since i already owned four detectors.
Mike

 

[Darod]

Coinshooter,

I laughed my *ss off when I saw that Gameboy pic. The sand in the screen just struck me as funny as *ell. Strange how somethings just seem so funny when they really aren't that funny at all.

That is one goofy find for sure

Here's my goofiest find, I found a Disney "Goofy" character flashlight on the edge of a Volleyball court (just in case your wondering , I'm in Florida and they have sand volleyball courts at all the recreational parks). How's that for a goofy find Not much of a "relic" but a goofy find none-the-less.

Rod

 

[EyeShine]

Mine was finding a pot pipe that was a few inches down, it was still full. Any suggestions how to determine if the owner was ripped off?

You could smoke it....

 

[pickaback]

My goofiest find was my own pen. I knew it was mine because I had lost it not long before and because it was engraved with my name on it!
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[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Found in the woods, while searching for an old boys camp.

A urinal.

all have a good un
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

 

[DigEmAll]

On the first trip out with a new detector, a Cobra Beach Magnet, I got a hit in the middle of nowhere.? Started digging and after about twenty minutes or so I found my prize.? About 14 to 16 inches down in hard packed dirt in the middle of a dried streambed was the prettiest 1970's pull tab type crushed Pepsi can that you have ever seen.? At least it proved that it will hunt pretty deep!!! 8)? ( I also came home with a '41 Mercury dime and two different Mexican coins from '74 and '71)

SORRY, NO PIC OF THE CAN!

 

[JakePhelps]

Howd you get 14-16 inches on a cobra?! I have it and even if you turn the depth knob all the way up to 10 i think it is, its only ike 9 inches. Is there like a secret i dont know about

 

[DigEmAll]

A crushed aluminum can makes a pretty good target! Besides that, I guess I am just lucky! The deepest "real" artifact I have found with the Cobra was the 50 centavos pictured above, on the same hunt, that was about five inches deep. Maybe it just liked the soil in which I was hunting!

 

[cm5838]

I accidentaly found my daughters dead goldfish she buried it in a sucrets tin box, and i thought i found something good.
Charles

 

[Monty]

I posted this once but it didn't show up so.....Dead cat in a lime green sack! jimakaks