Rollingthunder

Anyone done any of this?
Have walked by several ruined nunneries and monasteries with signs posted outside saying "No Metal Detecting".

Heard about a find of more than 900 14th century silver coins on a beach in Wales. Estimated value 4 GBP each. Doesn't seem quite right for 700 year old coins.

Milt

Do nunns and monks have to throw away all their coins.?
Surely their supposedly ill-gotten gains would rapidly go to Rome.!

TheGorrilla

Was a good night out. Kept handing over notes cos I couldn't count my loose change at the bar. Too drunk you see. Eventually all my change was bursting out my pockets.... Long time ago now. Course, don't get drunk much these days.....

storl tern

Can be quite lucrative in this neck of the woods - fair bit of gold lying around you see.

merlinxx

Obvious you've not got a metal detector, have you got an AK or an old FN? then you can get the locals to dig it up for ya!

storl tern

Nah, we're a bit more civilised than that in Western Australia.

DaveO'Leary

Don't try metal detecting on a Spanish beach it's illegal and one can get jumped on from a very great height.

The Gov are protecting all the lost gold from galleons sunk off the coast over the past few hundred years. Although one can make a few £££ with a waterproof detector diving.

Loose rivets

Many moons ago I buried all my mom's jewelry in the garden, sealed in a large tin. I stashed my hoard under a foot or so of soft black soil and forgot about it for a while.

"Where's my jewelry??!!"

Oooo err, "Roughly............????????" It was a big garden. "I know, I'll get the mine-detector."

It had worked when it arrived from a military surplus shop, but now was as dead as a Dodo. It came in a full sized rucksack and had valves and needed very expensive batteries. The detector was a screw together thing that had two different heads. The whole shebang was bigger than I was. We went to the radio shop for batteries.

"How much??!!" My mom looked shocked, and hauled me out of the shop. "My jewelry's not worth that much."

Funny thing is, that it must still be there.....somewhere.