Story of the highs and lows of treasure hunting....

[Chitlin]

So, I just got a detector and everyone here knows how addicting it can be. I was digging in my yard late one day and just couldn't stop... lots of construction debris etc (I built my place in '98) but a few good finds. Anyway, it's almost dark, the gnats are tearing me up and my wife is heckling me from the porch..... I get a hit.... ...gotta get it... My wife comes down and continues to verbally destroy my will and spirit..... but I pull out a coin....

"It's a frikkin quater" she says.... It's dark at this point but I can see in the porch light that it's not a quater, it's dirty but I can make out some of the detail......

"I don't know what it is, but it's not a quater" I say, as I tremble with exictement and anticipation. I put the coin in my pocket and finish cleaning up.... go inside to the kitchen sink to identify what I'm sure is the find of the decade...... "Hmmmm looks to be the same front and back, big face and writing surrounding it...that's weird" I think to myself..... as the verbiage becomes evident, I read it out loud....

Where a kid can be a.... my wife laughs out loud at me...." It's a token from Chucky Cheese you dummy" ...and yet another dream spirals into oblivion

 

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[DFX-SE Gregg]

good story I found nearly 50 rat tokens this year.

 

[~MetalDigger~]

I think it's a great find, so keep up the good work. O and I have selective hearing of course most of us do, we have to learn it.

 

[Boobydoo]

She won't be as skeptical when you pull out a nice gold ring someday that she will want to wear

Good luck and welcome to TNet!!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[BIG61AL]

I rather find a chucky cheese token than another stupid chunk of soda can that reads as a half dollar!

 

[YOGI!]

Two weeks ago I went out for the first time with a buddy and he let me use his spare detector - the first thing I found was the mouse! Hilarious! I also found a 2000 quarter; 6 pennies and a silver man's ring!

 

[TXDIRTFISHER]

Wear your ear phones inside the house after you put up your MD and it won't matter what she says.

 

[latitude42]

Tell wifey there is a quarter in the corner of the round room in the house, go find it!
That should keep her busy while you do what you enjoy.

Some people just cannot stand to see someone else having fun!!

 

[bedpanmoneyman]

Tokens are always good finds. I'd rather find a token than clad.

 

[Farmercal]

If you didn't find at least one Chucky Cheese Token, then you are doing something wrong. They aren't so bad. Try finding 50 littel copper roofing tacks that read like a old penny. No only are they only worth their weight in copper (which isn't much) but they are hard to locate because of the small size.

 

[bavarianminister]

Can you imagine some archaeologist finding one of those a thousand years from now? LOL

 

[sniffer]

the archeologist would probably think it was political figure LOL