[Rockhounds] What is the weirdest thing that you found while rock hunting?

[Gene Hartstein]

The weirdest and coolest thing was a 1/10 real coin dated 1792. I was hunting fossils in relatively fresh dredge spoils in Delaware. At first I thought it was a tarnished dime, until I picked it up and examined it.
Gene Hartstein 

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> On Nov 24, 2020, at 4:39 PM, ajs at silgro.com wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> What is the weirdest thing / object you saw while fossil / rock
>> hunting?
> 
> Probably overall the weirdest ever, just last month, was a tiny little
> metal ID tag (see RoadId.com) that somehow broke off a bracelet at both
> ends, far down a remote gravel road in Utah (along the Kokopelli
> bike/car trail).  Contacted the owner, returned it to them by mail
> (under 1 oz), and it had only been on the ground for SIX DAYS!
> 
> Other personal candidates:
> 
> - Busted-up (shot up?) pane(s) of 1" thick blue glass, also out in the
>  sandy Utah desert.  Collected 140 (ONE HUNDRED FORTY) pounds of it to
>  grind into "beach glass" in my tire grinder.
> 
> - Rusty old sheep bell in Wyoming, hunting petrified wood with landowner
>  permission in a vast area where he runs sheep.  Returned it to him, he
>  said, "Oh, that must be from my dad" based on the style.  "I'll fix it
>  up and put it back on a sheep."  (Really?)
> 
> - Rock hammer -- my own!  never leave it sitting on a bumper -- three
>  weeks after losing it and buying a replacement; in sight but not
>  obvious along a gravel road in rural eastern Colorado.
> 
> - A short chunk of railroad rail, heavy (45 lb/ft), miles from the nearest
>  track, half a mile from any road, also in rural eastern Colorado.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan Silverstein
> 
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