My occupation is in Sales, but while a contractor was developing the property where I was previously employed I saw people metal detecting. After asking them what they were finding and hearing about the Civil War relics they were finding I got hooked!
That was about 8 years ago, and I’ve been metal detecting beaches or anywhere I can find Civil War relics ever since!
I first got into metal detecting after my parents bought me one when I was 10 years old. On and off for the last 30 years I’ve been treasure hunting. I had a Bounty Hunter 505, but now own a trusty Fisher 1236-X2 . My favorite places to treasure hunt are private property and construction sites, and this past October I got a chance to go to a cleared construction site in Smyrna, Georgia that I was hoping would turn up something good.
Somewhere in Tennessee police searched a muddy city parking lot where workmen discovered a (container-pot) of gold coins that may have been buried during the Civil War. The U.S. gold pieces are worth (conservatively) up to $3,000 each but it’s unclear how many were found since the workmen made off with most of them. “We have accounted for 177 and that’s just by talking to people who said that they had possessed some,” said the Mayor. “There may be a good bit more than that.”
