What is the largest single gold item found?

JimDon

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Just curious. My 1.3 ozt of 18kt bracelet was a whopper but I'm wondering if anyone has scored a bigger piece at a TS on the cheap. Monster chains? ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1470111856.230700.jpg
 

Wow, around here in Dallas, if the thrift stores miss gold, there is probably a treasure hunter there daily to grab it. So I'll keep checking but haven't seen any as of yet.
 

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Picked this up in a lot of jewelry when I first started buying gold and didn't know squat... Paid $50 for the lot and around $300 for the gold I seen and dis pull out and pay the people for. Got $2100 for the coin, the pendant and a chain. (Took money back to the elderly couple I bought the lot off of) over two ounces of gold in this piece alone!!


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I've been seriously hunting thrifts/estate sales/etc for about 4 years & not so seriously for 30+. The biggest single item I ever scored on the cheap was around 1/4 ozt. I have picked up bags of junk jewelry cheap that had multiple pieces but not enough to equal 1.3 ozt of 18k.
 

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This is my biggest piece found. 14k ring I bought in a lot of jewelry for $10 total. In that lot I also found ~10 more grams of 14k and ~2 grams of 10k but those were all smaller pieces.
 

My wife has me stop at a local thrift store every now and then to add to her stock for resale. This one came out a tangle mess of about 12 necklaces. The total count for the necklaces were 1, 10kt chain, 1 10kt gold filled, 5, 14kt gold chians, 5 silver necklaces. the one shown was 14kt at 29.9 grams.
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