I would like to share this story with the board as it as great treasure taile. My daughter and I have been detecting for about a year as a father/ daughter hobby in the weekends. I am originaly from denmark, europe and that is where this story begins. 
We where at a local beach and found 2 diamonds rings ( see picture) as on of the rings where a wedding band with inscription in it I decided to contact the local newspaper to show my daughter the good deed of finding the owner of the rings. http://www.ugebladet.dk/nyheder/lokale_nyheder.epl?id=1840660 ( the newspaper is in danish so ...) :P
Anyway we got a lot of calls but all of the where from other people who had lost things and if we could come and help. Then an old man call with a great storry of 10 silver bars he had burried during the war (2 world war). I could not help myself and I told him I would come out on the following friday. I went to his barn and within 10 mins I would a plastic bag with something inside wrapped in foil paper (only reason it came up on the metal detector about 5" down) The old man look at the package and told me as he open it that it was probably some old papers he had dug down as he did not trust anybody. He open the silver foil rap and inside where a stack of 1,000 kr ( local currency of denmark) there where about 500 old notes ( total about $90,000) I could not control myself as this is a lot of money he gave me 6,000 kr ( $1,000) for the find and he got very very happy also. He told me how he was going to send money to his family in Australia. So this was a great day everthough normal finders fee in denmark is 10% the storry of the find makes up for the money. The bills where from 1972 and not in circulation in denmark anymore, but the bank change the money to new bills no problem.
As a twist to the storry I came back with my daughter the following day and the old man took me a side and told me not to use my detector in a certain place in the front yard under a big rock as he had again put the money in the ground. ( he did not trust the banks)
Go figur but a great storry.
If anybody are in the Atlanta area I would love to go and detect with somebody, please post me a note.
Th
We where at a local beach and found 2 diamonds rings ( see picture) as on of the rings where a wedding band with inscription in it I decided to contact the local newspaper to show my daughter the good deed of finding the owner of the rings. http://www.ugebladet.dk/nyheder/lokale_nyheder.epl?id=1840660 ( the newspaper is in danish so ...) :P
Anyway we got a lot of calls but all of the where from other people who had lost things and if we could come and help. Then an old man call with a great storry of 10 silver bars he had burried during the war (2 world war). I could not help myself and I told him I would come out on the following friday. I went to his barn and within 10 mins I would a plastic bag with something inside wrapped in foil paper (only reason it came up on the metal detector about 5" down) The old man look at the package and told me as he open it that it was probably some old papers he had dug down as he did not trust anybody. He open the silver foil rap and inside where a stack of 1,000 kr ( local currency of denmark) there where about 500 old notes ( total about $90,000) I could not control myself as this is a lot of money he gave me 6,000 kr ( $1,000) for the find and he got very very happy also. He told me how he was going to send money to his family in Australia. So this was a great day everthough normal finders fee in denmark is 10% the storry of the find makes up for the money. The bills where from 1972 and not in circulation in denmark anymore, but the bank change the money to new bills no problem.
As a twist to the storry I came back with my daughter the following day and the old man took me a side and told me not to use my detector in a certain place in the front yard under a big rock as he had again put the money in the ground. ( he did not trust the banks)
Go figur but a great storry.
If anybody are in the Atlanta area I would love to go and detect with somebody, please post me a note.
Th
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