Insane coincidences of metal detecting

[foiled_again]

Here are three, two of mine and one I heard about...

--House hunting, I found an aluminum10-cent Palmolive Peet soap company token that I date to 1927 (Palmolive merged with Peet in 1926 and then Palmolive Peet merged with Colgate in 1928). Several weeks later I found another one of the exact same token (Chicago variety) in another yard across town...both places owned by the same man.

--The first class ring I ever found was in California, and I was able to return it to the owner, Antoinette Moreno. Today, in Texas, I found my third class ring (the second one was un-returnable, no name on it) and have already located the owner...Michael Moreno.

--I was working a beach in California some years ago and met a guy who was detecting in the water with an Excalibur. He mentioned that he had recently found a Tag Heuer watch in the surf. I met up with him a couple of years later and he told me that a year after finding the watch, he was working the beach again, and someone came up to him and was telling a story of have lost a Tag Heuer watch the year before...telling this to the very guy who had found it.

Crazy!

 

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[CJayC]

Couple questions:

1 - Were the two Morenos related at all?

and 2 - Did your friend tell the guy he found the watch and was he able to give it back?


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[b3y0nd3r]

if you look at coincidence, you realize that it is just a mathematical equation based on probability HOWEVER, some believe this is a programmed reality and that coincidence, is a programming error. Anyway you look at it, it is wild.

 

[foiled_again]

1--I'll find out when I make contact but the odds are vanishingly small. Now that I think of it, the two Morenos might be about the same age now since the first one happened over 20 years ago but was a fresh drop at the time, and yesterday's ring is Class of '95.

2--Yes, I believe he did.

 

[GA_Boy]

In figuring odds and coincidences there are THREE types of people.
Those that can count and those that can't.
Marvin

 

[RustyGold]

Too funny GA Boy!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Now if you could just get that to work in your favor playing the lottery.

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[digger27]

A few years ago in an old park I dug up a large coin and I was beyond thrilled.
A 1922 Peace dollar, it was a weird color and all scarred up but I didn't care.
When I flipped it over I saw the same image and the word COPY.
WTH!!!
A two headed Two Face coin sold as a souvenir after the Dark Knight Batman movie came out.

What a let down, a cool find in itself and I have never read another post since about any other hunter finding one but still a heartbreaker.

A few years later after moving to another state I went after a big strange signal in the dirt and found another Peace dollar but this one was real...and the same year.
My heart was finally healed.

I might not ever find another silver dollar in my life but at least this one comes with a great story, and coincidence, attached.

 

[RustyGold]

Twenty five years ago I was fishing off the pier in Seal Beach, CA and dropped my silver dollar over the side by accident. I knew I shouldn't be flipping it in my hand and got careless and over the side of the pier it went. Needless to say I was heartbroken as the coin was a gift from my Dad.
Fast forward twenty some years later and I was working in my uncle's fish market and while cutting open a fish I struck something hard! It was my thumb! I cut it off!

 

[Ammoman]

Twenty five years ago I was fishing off the pier in Seal Beach, CA and dropped my silver dollar over the side by accident. I knew I shouldn't be flipping it in my hand and got careless and over the side of the pier it went. Needless to say I was heartbroken as the coin was a gift from my Dad.
Fast forward twenty some years later and I was working in my uncle's fish market and while cutting open a fish I struck something hard! It was my thumb! I cut it off!

That sucks...i guess you can never be movie critic. You need two thumbs for that.

 

[b3y0nd3r]

A few years ago in an old park I dug up a large coin and I was beyond thrilled.
A 1922 Peace dollar, it was a weird color and all scarred up but I didn't care.
When I flipped it over I saw the same image and the word COPY.
WTH!!!
A two headed Two Face coin sold as a souvenir after the Dark Knight Batman movie came out.

What a let down, a cool find in itself and I have never read another post since about any other hunter finding one but still a heartbreaker.

A few years later after moving to another state I went after a big strange signal in the dirt and found another Peace dollar but this one was real...and the same year.
My heart was finally healed.

I might not ever find another silver dollar in my life but at least this one comes with a great story, and coincidence, attached.

You wouldn't happen to have a variety channel would you ? Anyway, that copy coin is from a character from Batman called two face. But I think you knew that already.

 

[choppadude]

About 35 years ago me and a friend were detecting a circa 1880's local park, we were young guys and not a lot of experience. We would detect until our batteries went dead then pool all our change together and buy more batteries LOL!
I believe I was using an old Whites unit and digging with a heavy duty butter knife that I picked up somewhere along the way. The knife was stamped Royal US so for some reason I thought it was something from the Government like the Army or Navy.
It was getting dark and I had a target I could not find so I gave up.
When I got home I realized I had lost my digging knife. I ended up getting a new digger and it was forgotten.
Fast forward a couple years ago and I am detecting the same park. Get a banging signal and you can guess what I found MY OLD DIGGING KNIFE! Stamped Royal US!
The coolest thing is that it brought back a lot of memories, my digging partner had just passed away a year or so before this and it made me smile thinking that somehow he was watching all this and laughing his ass off!
I still have this old butter knife and really cherish the memories that it holds.

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

Tales from the dark side....interesting!