Jul
19
Getting into Gold Coin Collecting
July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Getting into Gold Coin Collecting
By Mike Selvon
Gold coin collecting can be an exciting hobby to take up. After all, who doesn’t enjoy the lure of a shiny gold coin? Maybe you’ve watched movies where villains hunted down valuable Krugerrands, you could have a part of that too, only in your case, buying and selling old rare coins isn’t an illegal activity! Still, it is a hobby with a unique and thrilling flare.
Some of the old rare coins are the most valuable, but most legitimate rare coin dealers warn openly that dealing in the gold collection is more of a neutral investment for your money.
Don’t expect to land huge bargains or get great return on your Sovereigns or Brittanias. Dealers note that the market for gold has stabilized and won’t provide rich profits, but they also point out that gold remains a reliable commodity.
Gold coin collecting can be made even more exciting when Read more
Jul
16
Treasure Hunting Begins Inside
July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Treasure Hunting Begins Inside
By Sally Taylor
If you are like me, you never get enough of the hunt, whether on the search for rocks and gems, fossils, or treasure. Now that the cold, wet weather is putting a damper on outside searches for those in the north, it is prime time for indoor searches. After all, while you can, every once in a while, stumble upon a great place to hunt for treasure while just hoofing around in the wilderness, most productive treasure searches start inside.
The first task in treasure hunting is to figure out where exactly it is that you want
to hunt. It’s best to be realistic. You may have a dream to hunt in the South Sea
Islands, but if you have no means to get there you have much better ways to
spend hours and hours of research. Productive searching close to home may
just help you fund some of your dream searches. So to start, keep it close — somewhere you will actually be able to spend some time searching. Once you
have your target area pinpointed, it’s time to hit the history books and old
newspapers.
The information you are seeking is Read more
Jul
13
How To Find Hidden Treasure
July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
How To Find Hidden Treasure
By Steven Gillman
Where can you find hidden treasure? Almost anywhere. How can you find it? Here are some new ideas on that.
I was once involved in tearing down an old house. In the attic, hidden underneath the insulation, I found a glass piggy bank of old pennies. I also found a rare old magazine and a few other minor treasures.
Treasure is not always things of obvious value, though. Hidden in the walls of that house was a treasure that at the time never occurred to me: copper tubing. I later discovered that the water lines we paid to have hauled away were sold as valuable scrap by the junk man. It made me wonder what else could be “treasure,” and where else I might find it. Read more
Jul
10
Buried Treasure – Where To Look
July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Buried Treasure – Where To Look
By Steven Gillman
An example of buried treasure? As a young man I buried 100 ounces of silver under my parents house. There was a crawl space that could be accessed from the basement. I pulled the plastic back that covered the dirt, and roughly five feet out from the west and south walls dug a hole. I put my plastic container with it’s ten ten-ounce bars of silver into it, covered it up and left it there for years.
Did I tell anyone where it was, or even that I had buried it? Of course not! The point of hiding things is so nobody knows where they are, right? By the way, I have long since dug the silver up and sold it, and keep my money in the bank now instead of the ground. However, what if I had died while I still had this buried treasure under my parents house? Read more
Jul
6
3 Types of Metal Detecting to Get Involved I
July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
3 Types of Metal Detecting to Get Involved In
By J C Christian
Metal detecting can be a lot of fun, a wonderful hobby, and can also be a way to make money if you know what to look for. They’re a lot different types of metal detecting and a lot of different places you can go to metal detect. We will look at three different ways to metal detect water and beach detecting, gold prospecting, and treasure detecting.
1. Water and beach detecting
This is one of the fastest growing types of metal detecting as until recently Read more
Jul
5
Treasure Hunting for Indian Peace Medals
July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Treasure Hunting for Indian Peace Medals
By Greg Mulac
Originally the Indian Peace medals were made for the British Kings starting in the pre-revolutionary times, then progressed to having one for each of the US presidents until the late 1860s. They come in 2 main types — a normal, round coin shape that everyone is familiar with, and an engraved, oval type medal.
Since these medals were originally given to the various Indian tribes as a show of friendship, this is where it starts to get exciting for the treasure hunter.
The main reason is to think like this: Read more
Jul
3
Treasure Hunting – The Unusual Ways
July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Treasure Hunting – The Unusual Ways
By Steven Gillman
When you think of treasure hunting, maybe gold coins and precious stones come to mind, but it doesn’t end there. You can start in your own attic to see what treasures you find. Then you can check out some of the more unusual ways to go treasure hunting.
Diamonds In Parking Lots
Temperature changes getting in and out of cars and buildings cause diamonds to come loose from their settings. Because of this, Read more
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