Outstanding finds Gale! Hey!...Heres something along these lines I 'forgot' to post...
There was a local "Church Garage Sale" a few weeks ago just down the street, the Wife headed on over there and bought this bag of goods for $5! Silver! Gold! Jade! Emeralds! Vintage jewelry!
All of the stuff you see here SHE got for $5!
She of course rubbed my nose in it very much bigly and ordered me to post her finds for all my 'Crummy Metal Detecting friends' as a witness to their dirt hunting time wasting foolishness....I completely forgot about it until now.....
This kind of deal really messes up a dirt hunters mind, can drive a fellow insane...which I believe is the point...
Yet, like what you found yourself, as a PSA, "Theres all sorts of Gold and Silver out there waiting to be found and not all of it is lost in the dirt"..So hey, $5 paper for a whole years haul for a decent coilist is worth consideration....