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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I say find a shop willing to rent you a metal detector, or contact a local metal detector club and see if someone will loan you one....or if you are in KY, I would be more than happy to help you out with mine
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Valued Member
United States
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Personally I'd enjoy tromping around in Grandpa's pastures and timber with or without the promise of finding something.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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*Ahem* If you happen to be in Idaho a friend and I have metal detectors.
Edited by allranger
01/20/2012 1:52 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
63 Posts |
Not in Idaho Allranger, sorry, wish I where though.
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Valued Member
United States
136 Posts |
This is what metal detectorists die for! Buried Treasure!
Edited by mdj
01/20/2012 2:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Before you go getting help from anyone, you better decide on who owns what! Also, you might want to go out and buy your own.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How funny. I live in Bremerton....and I have a metal detector. LOL If you really think that the money is still there I would contact our local metal detecting club and have them do one of their hunts on the property. Just a thought.
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Valued Member
United States
63 Posts |
I would LOVE to go out looking for myself. The proplem is, I'm in CA and my Great Grandfather's property in in Indiana. :(
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Valued Member
United States
318 Posts |
If the house they lived in is still standing, and better yet with all the furnishings still inside, I would be out there on the next available flight and *literally* tearing the house apart looking for a treasure map.
Check especially every single page of family bibles and other old books, underside of every drawer, tear up the carpet looking for under floor trap door esp. in closets, separate every picture or painting in a frame from its backing, old chests are usually lined with cloth so check behind that, hat bands, pockets of all clothes, and every single item in their bedroom three times. Attic. Basement. Any room that looks like it was for his hobbies; building ships in a bottle, model trains.
That would quickly become an obsession for me. Good luck!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 I cant even imagine what could be in there |
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Valued Member
United States
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Even the thought of a treasure map existing is exciting. Imagine if your Grandfather actually planned it this way. 300 acre scavenger hunt.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I would love to see a genuine "wad" of dough from the 30s. But think about this, if they were found they wouldn't be in collectable condition. The coins, though, might be a different story. Happy hunting!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My wife used to live on a farm. Way, way baak she would also bury any money she got in cans or jars on the farm. After so many years and that farm being sold and resold, finding those would be impossible. Not only that but the present owners really would like idiots roaming around digging up their land. And too, being a farm, who knows how many tractors dug up those coins and smashed them to bits. Very possibly making sort of compose for corn.
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01/21/2012 2:14 pm
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Wow, nice ... Your story makes me want to go bury a time capsule full of cool coins and neat stevex6 treasures and then => leave a map and/or scavenger hunt directions in my will ... what an awesome exit! hahah => I have a vision of all of my nephews and nieces scrambling for their vehicles and heading-off trying to track-down ol' dimented Uncle stevex6's treasure! => what an awesome finale to a great, yet slightly off-the-wall life! (it's perfect)   |
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Posted 01/20/2012 1:37 pm
