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Metal Detectorist Shows All the Gold Rings He's Found in a Local River
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Metal Detectorist Shows All the Gold Rings He's Found in a Local River

Metal detectorist finds a haul of gold rings in the river in the course of two months. Read more to find out.

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Metal detecting is a pastime that can be as lucrative as it is fascinating. Case in point: in 2014, metal detectorist Paul Coleman found a hoard of 5,251 Anglo Saxon silver coins worth £1.3 million ($1.7 million).

Now, a Redditor has revealed what they claim to be their findings after two months of metal detecting at a river, and they're mostly comprised of gold wedding rings.

Metal detecting can reveal incredible stories from our past. In 2012, for example, a 13-year-old boy detected a 10,000-year-old piece of meteorite out in the desert, providing the scientific community with insight into our solar system.

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As Redditor EstablishmentNo9815's image shows, the metal detectorist might have unearthed stories of a very different kind.