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Hiding your buried stash from a metal detector |
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There is another current thread over at Kitco about how to hide your stash (assuming you have buried your coins), from a user of a metal detector. Avoiding the obvious questions of why you wouldn't use a safe or a bank vault, and why you would bury coins in a publicly-accessible location in the first place, many collectors of gold coins offer some really interesting advice on the thread. In effect, modern metal detectors are so sophisticated (they can be set to ignore ferrous metals) that any form of mixed burial (putting the coins inside or below a length of iron pipe for example) would probably not be effective. Nor would scattering steel nails all around the area to confuse or frustrate the metal detectorist. Also, iron containers were traditionally used to store gold coins, so if the seeker suspects there is gold in the area.... bad luck for you. Some (maybe) useful suggestions include burying your stash 4-5 feet deep (out of range), putting it under a pond (can't be detected) or planting a fast growing tree on top of the hole. Another related issue is that if you make the gold coins so hard to find, will your family ever get the benefit of them if you die in an accident? eBay is filled with Roman coin stashes which were never recovered by their owners, but found recently by people using metal detectors. Hmmm. I'll keep mine in the bank vault for the moment...
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