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[VERDE]

Hey Keppy!! My cousin lives up in the Toledo region!! From your Avatar I might should move up there and start looking for my Treasure!! Holy Smokes!! Didn't know they had LADIES that look that STUD!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

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[Keppy]

Are you sure about the 1935 date on that? I thought 1929 was the last year of $5's ?

Sorry about that i meant a 1913..... That's not the first time i said 1935 and meant to say 1913 .... I must have some kind of block there.....

 

[Keppy]

Hey Keppy!! My cousin lives up in the Toledo region!! From your Avatar I might should move up there and start looking for my Treasure!! Holy Smokes!! Didn't know they had LADIES that look that STUD!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

.. You are in luck she just lives on the out skirts of Toledo.......

 

[VERDE]

AMERICA!! I just started hiking that way!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

[BosnMate]

Years ago I lived in N. California. At the time I owned a Whites BFO machine, and a neighbor heard that I had a metal detector. He made the remark to me that he always wanted one, because his Grandfather had, on a rainy day, slipped and fell, hitting his head on a water trough. When he woke up 7 double eagles were missing from his pocket, and he couldn't find them. The grandson knew where the water trough was located, and wanted to go look for them, but didn't want me or anyone else involved, so I don't know if he ever found them or even looked. The reason I'm telling this is to point out that people did carry gold money with them. That's what they paid their bills with. Yes, there was credit, but it was different than now. A person might have had a store bill, or a feed bill, and when the rancher sold his calves he was paid, and and in turn that's when the store bill or feed bill was paid, which might have amounted to a several gold coins. Farmers and ranchers tended to get paid once a year, while dairy and people with chickens selling eggs got paid daily for their produce.

 

[Joe hunter]

Just this summer I found a100 dollar bill blowing across a convenient store parking lot.

I know it's not the same just saying people do loose valuables and always have .
There were two people pumping gas I asked if they lost money they said no I was not about to offer it up to cashier .

 

[BARKER]

Hi Dusty 1530; Yes I have. About twenty years ago.!!! Good luck. PEACE:RONB

 

[Peyton Manning]

no one decides what to lose. it happens

btw 24 did pretty good last night. one more good race and he's in

 

[Fullpan]

Dusty - For a period of time I eyeballed for coins on the Truckee river that flows through Reno. Found all kinds of good stuff - coins from WW 2 as the trains
would layover here on the way to Calif packed with recruits, Chinese coins, modern pocket change dropped by the winos, etc. One day I spotted something
gold colored eroding from the streambank, and thought it was a wine cap. Turned out it was 1882 CC gold 5 dollar piece in good condition.

 

[kuger]

any body that does even a minute amount of research into the journals of the miners of the 1850's will find that the prices of every thing was over inflated...a fine breakfast may cost 2-3 ounces of gold,a shovel,one ounce,rent for a spot to pitch a tent 2 ounces a night etc. Given an ounce was worth $18,but one can see why so many left empty handed and broke...it wasnt because they didnt find it it was because it was so hard to keep it!One must also undestand trousers didnt feature pockets as we know em either,and the fact that any time you get a group of lonesome young men there is likely to be large amounts of alchol consumed....thus all kinds of things being lost!!!

Tom,not sure where you get your wage quotes but they are a bit off.I assure you the guys working in the mines especially in the 1880's were well paid....have you ever heard of "Hygrading",well the best way for a mine operator to suffer from it is to nt pay your men.

A good friend (Dave Wiseman on here)often tells the story about The mine superintendant of the Calaveras Central (Harry Sears likely)that failed to pay the miners for some time......well not too much was said but the following week the parking lt was full of brand new Model T's

So,just like much of what folks hear about the Old West,such as the high noon gunfights.......poorly paid miners didnt happen

 

[Tom_in_CA]

..... Tom,not sure where you get your wage quotes but they are a bit off.......

Kuger, when I found my first gold coin in 1994, it was an 1880s $20 gold, on a travel route leading to some quicksilver mining region of CA. At the time, I read in some history citations of that particular mining region (and range of the 1870s/80s) that a miner's pay was $20 p/month plus room and board. Thus when you add in the value of room and board, I'm sure it's more than $20 p/month. And that was just for this period, and those mines, and perhaps a lower skilled mere laborer? Anyhow, I just remember thinking, when I read that, that I had just found some poor guy's pay for an entire month! Ouch.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

My dad was born in 1930. In the very early 1940s, he had a high school job at a movie theater. His pay was .07 c per hour! (and all the popcorn he cared to eat). Yup, work all day after school for a whopping .25c, and all week for a buck or two Granted, that was just a high school kids job during depression era pay. I realize adults made more than that

 

[kuger]

Kuger, when I found my first gold coin in 1994, it was an 1880s $20 gold, on a travel route leading to some quicksilver mining region of CA. At the time, I read in some history citations of that particular mining region (and range of the 1870s/80s) that a miner's pay was $20 p/month plus room and board. Thus when you add in the value of room and board, I'm sure it's more than $20 p/month. And that was just for this period, and those mines, and perhaps a lower skilled mere laborer? Anyhow, I just remember thinking, when I read that, that I had just found some poor guy's pay for an entire month! Ouch.

Tom,I dont know about the wages of the Mercury mines......perhaps the wages you have cited are accurate for them?Figure in 1880 an ounce of gold was $20-30......ok now some of these shifts in the major mines of the mother lode were producing multiple hundreds of ounces per shift......do you really thing a guy is going to do that back breaking miserable,dangerous work for pennies a day while he is seeing thousands of dollars??Now........not all of the gold was visible,but still.....also by the 1880's there were Unions formed that were quite strong.At any rate........the loss of any money was sure to be a "downer",just like losing even $20 today.I also want to make clear that out here in Cali in the Gold Mines is in no way a common denominator in the value of a dollar back those days!!!!Not by a long shot.

 

[kuger]

My dad was born in 1930. In the very early 1940s, he had a high school job at a movie theater. His pay was .07 c per hour! (and all the popcorn he cared to eat). Yup, work all day after school for a whopping .25c, and all week for a buck or two Granted, that was just a high school kids job during depression era pay. I realize adults made more than that

and he was likely quite pleased with that Huh?My grand dad trapped skunks during that period and made $2 a piece.....that was BIG money!

 

[Frankn]

Well, I have found a $5 gold coin. It was at the base of a really old oak tree and only a couple of inches deep. This was at an old mansion. I really don't think the rich worried to much about loosing $5. An old mansion site would be an ideal place to look for one. Now I have found $20 gold coins cached in a masons jar, but they were placed, not lost. Frank...

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

Well, I have found a $5 gold coin. It was at the base of a really old oak tree and only a couple of inches deep. This was at an old mansion. I really don't think the rich worried to much about loosing $5. An old mansion site would be an ideal place to look for one. Now I have found $20 gold coins cached in a masons jar, but they were placed, not lost. Frank...

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Does a good coin ring up as gold or as a coin I'd imagine gold

 

[NOLA_Ken]

People managed to lose silver dollars and pocket watches, and those are bigger than gold coins. I think the reason gold coins are an uncommon find has more to do with there not having been a lot of them in circulation compared to other coins than it does with people being more careful not to lose them.

 

[kuger]

Does a good coin ring up as gold or as a coin I'd imagine gold

...often as a zinc penny,or foil

 

[BC1969]

Well that shiny gold coin has eluded me thus far, but I'm hoping that will soon change, since I happen to know where one is ( sorta )
Old timer I know told me that he was walking the headlands on his farm about 1910 or so, heading out to hunt deer, and just so happened to be flipping a 10 dollar gold up in the air, when he stumbled and fell, said he looked in them tall weeds all day, and never found it.
Me either, I spent at least 2 years searching that fence row, but its a mile long...Ah well someday..

 

[wpsgta1000]

In 1965 I was 9 years old. I was walking through the parking lot of a 5&10 store when I saw a very small square of green paper. Picked it up and found that it was a hundred dollar bill folded up into a square that was smaller then a postage stamp. Keep in mind that in 1965 $100 was more then most people would make in a week or more.