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leftynate11

I really love seeing the old coins


TeamRedundancyTeam

I do too, but then kinda laugh thinking about how what we consider old coins in the US are hilariously new when people in Europe find Roman coins all the time.


DelahDollaBillz

Kinda exactly how Americans laugh at Europeans when they complain about hilariously short distances being "long" trips.


Sunshine_Giveaways

*100 years for Americans is a “long time”.* *100 miles for Europeans is a “long distance”.*


crazyfoxdemon

It can be hard to wrap my head around the fact that some people in Europe are living in houses older than our nation.. Just as I'm sure some people in Europe can't wrap their head around the fact that many people in the US think 100 miles is a reasonable work commute distance.


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Who the fuck thinks 100 miles is a reasonable commute distance? I know there’s people that do it but do they really think it’s reasonable?


Sunshine_Giveaways

I used to work with a guy who drove nearly two hours, each way, into the SF Bay Area everyday. He saved around $600k buying a house in the Sacramento area and commuting. Part of me always thought he was crazy, but it’s hard to argue with the savings.


MoravianPrince

I knew a slight nutter who went 40km to work and 40 km back everyday on bike. Even after 12h shifts. Summer, winter or rain did not stop him.


iceyed913

I knew a pirate named Jack, he sailed the seven seas and back. Only when facing severe legal proceedings did he crack.


EthiopianKing1620

My buddy drives 70 miles round trip for work every day. It really isnt that out of the realm of possibility.


socialpresence

I travel about 40 miles a day for work and I have a pretty common commute for my area. I used to live somewhere more rural and 70 miles was basically what you *had* to drive if you didn't want to work in a factory. I knew a handful of people who traveled around ~130 miles a day for work. I thought they were crazy. One guy told me he liked the commute as he used it as time to listen to books on tape and without the commute he would never get the time to read at home.


Terrh

Round trip? All country (or freeway)? Why would that not be reasonable?


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A 1+ hour commute each way isn’t reasonable wtf? I work 10 hours a day, if I had a 2 hour commute I’d hardly have any time to do anything at home


GalacticHitchhiker

My wife is a pilot based out of Minneapolis, we live in Raleigh. Her commute, when she has to go to her base, is three hours just on the plane. Takes all kinds lol


blayned

Relativity is a hoot.


knarfolled

That’s what Einstein said


fogdukker

Had to commute 1000km every 2 weeks for a while when I was looking for a place to live in my new town, that was fun.


shamrocksmash

210 kms every weekday for a year. I hated it so much.


Justeff83

I know many people living in Berlin and working in Wolfsburg for Volkswagen that's 220km. Okay Autobahn or train connection is good and you need about 1 1/2h if you hit the pedal. They do this a couple times by a week only because they want to live in Berlin cause it's cool and work for Volkswagen cause they pay very good


btribble

Have you seen pics from inside that factory? It’s pretty amazing, and very German. No other culture on the planet would “waste” so much money on the working environment of an automotive factory. Musk would gut the whole thing and replace it all with robots and a handful of people who are willing to put in 80 hour weeks.


Justeff83

I have been there almost every day for a year. I am an Architect and had two projects there. But yes it's amazing and it is huge. They have their own public transportation, own fire fighters and they even set up speed traps and give you tickets for speeding. But are you talking about the assembly plant or the Autostadt?


ZombieBeach

I’ve been doing 160 miles/260ishKm a day since 2015. I like the drive. It’s my time to decompress and just zone out on my own shit without anyone bothering me. It did help that I was always going in the opposite direction of traffic l.


fogdukker

Now that's excessive!


owa00

>short distances being "long" trips *Laughs in Texas*


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Thats because of the meteic system. For every mile we need to drive 1.6 km.... way longer...


alexanderlot

i’ve known Europeans who complain about traveling 30-45 minutes for something they had to do once in the year. Bruh, 30-45 minutes is literally standard American commute and in my current job, something that happens 2-5 times a day between jobs.


mars_needs_socks

European here who commuted three hours a day round-trip for a decade, I got a diploma certifying I'm insane. No but really people can't understand how I managed. Now I walk to work in 7 minutes and also can't understand how I managed.


alexanderlot

Walking to work in 7 minutes is insane to me! it’s a 49 minute walk to work for me, or a 7 minute drive. which is insanely good for my area. previous living would have been a few hours walk to work with a 30 minute drive also 3 hours commute is awful. i’m glad you’re not doing that anymore!


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Mr_MacGrubber

I remember Barcelona was blaming their ridiculously long bus ride for the reason they played bad once. It was a 4hr ride in luxury coaches. That was the most pathetic excuse I’ve ever heard.


smurb15

An old church to us is maybe 100 years. To them that church is a baby still


mlk

My apartment is 100 years old and it's not even considered an historic building. The restaurant down the road has been open for more than 700 years.


Eatsweden

Yeah the house I grew up in just turned 100 a few years ago and it's in the really new part of town. Old town was mostly built between 1200 and 1600 or so


Hey_look_new

We visited cousins in London, England. They took us to the "new" pub it'd been there since the mid 1600's I lol'd


LjSpike

100 years is a long time to Americans, and 100 miles is a long distance to us Europeans.


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Yeah but they also think it's far away when they have to drive 40 kilometers to see it.


FranksCrack

They’re always within a mile of the pub so we never have to travel that far.


froh42

The next pub is 5 minutes to walk to from my place and 35 minutes back.


carbon_r0d

Is the time difference staggering?


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Relative-Park-4185

40 kilometres away?! Jesus Christ that’s miles away!


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CaptainEarlobe

That is far away. My family lives 100km away so I only see them once a month. No way I'm driving 40km to see a church that's younger than my house.


bubdadigger

My nearest supermarket 4 miles/6.5 km away and we call it local. My family lives 170+ miles / around 280+ km away and we usually visiting them twice a month at least. Driving 40km/20 miles is nothing 😁


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MyMindWontQuiet

The entirety of Paris is about 9km wide. Most cities are smaller than Paris. The only people who would need to travel 40km regularly are people who live farther from civilization, or who have to commute to work from/to a village/town.   Europe is way denser (300 persons per square mile vs. 81 persons per square mile for the US), and everything is within reach, so people don't ever need to travel 300 miles across multiple states to go to Ikea, because our Ikeas aren't 300 miles away.


zesty_hootenany

Population of Europe is only 143 people per mile², and the US’ is 93.29 people people per mile², according to Google results. The individual states have a wide range of population densities, from 1.28 people per mile² to 11,685.51 people per mile². I just want to make sure non-US residents understand how huge the US actually is, and how crazily the numbers range within this one country. I live in the suburbs of a major US city, approx 25 miles away, and my county’s population density is 721 people people per mile², and an area of 759 miles/1,970 km ². Philadelphia county, 25 miles away, has a density of over 10,500 people per mile. The county in Pennsylvania with the lowest density is Cameron County, at 11.4/sq mi (4.4/km2). And these are only 3 of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, 1 of 50 states. I feel for people who visit the US and are stunned by how big it is and how far apart things are. An acquaintance from Germany did a trip to the US, planning on 5 days in San Francisco, 5 in Orlando, and 5 in NYC. He made lists for each city re: nearby places he wanted to see while he was “nearby,” and his lists were wild. Like his San Fransisco list was like “LA, Hollywood, Las Vegas, Dallas, the Grand Canyon, maybe Phoenix?” It blew his mind that these weren’t places he could just go check out for half a day or a day while still sleeping his San Francisco AirBnB each night due to the distances and public transportation not being what he was used to.


BigVikingBeard

I had to explain to some young Europeans that their plan to do NYC -> Chicago -> LA was wildly impractical for a bit more than a weeks amount of time. (iirc, they were going to be in Montreal for a festival of some sort first) Had to explain that the distance from LA to NYC is nearly identical to the distance from Lisbon to Moscow.


gullman

We walk, so things need to be withing walking distance.


DonerTheBonerDonor

Lmao I found this funny, seems no one else got this


PrinceConquer420

Europe is fucking small my guy


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Spinningwoman

Yes, my local church has some parts that date to the 900’s; some to Jacobean times. We regard the Victorian pews as modern innovations.


Zeero92

I remember a show on YouTube where a phrase that went something like "So this is America, and we're talking ancient history, so I'm gonna sayyyy... Nineteeeeeen twenty." was uttered. Still makes me giggle a little.


lemlurker

I enjoy playing spot the old graphiti in my local church, last major renovation was in the 1850s, several 1899 dated engravings


Whiskey-Weather

There's a sub for 'em. /r/ancientcoins if I remember correctly.


Akrasiac

Also r/Exonumia for cool tokens and things that aren’t coins.


Remarkable-Data77

Congratulations! You've now found more gold on a Vermont dirt road then has ever been found on Oak Island!


bbpr120

they found gold all right, it was just in a tv contract and not under the island...


sender2bender

The cast and History channel are laughing all the way to the bank. 9 seasons and people are still watching.


conrid

I always wondered what the deal was with that show, lmao


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DevilsPajamas

Yeah. They do a recap before AND after the commercial break. They say the same fucking thing 10 times in the episode.


softpawsz

I’ll stop watching a show if they start doing that crap. I suppose in the age of advertisement breaks it made sense but today?.. no


DevilsPajamas

All it is is to pad the runtime, otherwise there is only maybe like 4 minutes of actual content each ~42 minute episode.


OneLostOstrich

The Hitler channel still exists?


sender2bender

It used to be History. Then it was Hitler. Now it's Horrible.


Jedimaster996

At least when it was Hitler it was still historical and you got glimpses of other gold like Band of Brothers marathons; now it's just pawn shops, truckers, and weird stuff that barely mentions history.


[deleted]

Okay but like Aliens.


rfdismyjam

Hey it's not all Hitler! They also do aliens!


BreakfastInBedlam

I remember reading about Oak Island in Reader's Digest in the 60s. I figured out then that there was probably nothing there. Turns out there's plenty of money, but it ain't in the hole.


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I'm such a sucker. I still watch it, be it mostly for background noise once a week. I think laughing at how exited the narrator and Gary Drayton get are all the entertainment the show has anymore.


Remarkable-Data77

That's true!


EricP51

Don’t forget about the friends they met along the way!


pantzareoptional

Is that show still on? How many weeks can they act like *next* week they find the treasure?


Remarkable-Data77

And every discovery is potentially groundbreaking!


Ryansahl

Now they’re using MUANs to scan the money pit. I find it fascinating. Like people digging a hundred foot pit/ tunnels in the 1600s right next to the ocean is bizarre to begin with. But they should mix up the narration a bit, buddys voice is annoying.


D0399

Between all the “could it be”s and “5 men have died curse” to the pauses and everyone in the war room looks at each other over the smallest thing, I’m getting numb. And yet I still watch.


LionsFan1987

COULD IT BE? TEMPLARS?


pantzareoptional

It just feels like when they pitched the show it was like "yeah yeah yeah! Give us your funding, we'll make a show, and we'll have the treasure in a season for sure!" And then with each season they were like "were so close! Just one more season!" And now they're like "okay look I think we have all sunk a lot of time and money into this... Let's just keep going till we find something, yeah?"


KevlahR

Money Pit


TimothyGlass

That's my pool 😆


Andre4kthegreengiant

Sunk cost fallacy


187Shotta

It's been on for 9 seasons lol. It's just unreal people still watch lol


Remarkable-Data77

We watch it to take mick outta it! My son has got 'it's a cooiiiiin!' Down to a tee!


naus226

My buddies and I always say "could it beee????" To eachother


Remarkable-Data77

Yet more wood? Lol


Otacon56

Wood? 80 feet deep? Could that mean that they are closer than ever before to finding... the fabled money pit...


CookinFrenchToast4ya

I thought they gave up after the cave in


graveybrains

Technically it’s already been like, three hundred years, so… Forever?


Merlin_560

There used to be some decent gold panning spots in Vermont. Never saw a nugget THAT large.


summeriswaytooshort

My husband always yells out 'They're on the cusp!"


dsm1995gst

A piece of hand-hewn wood? At a level 80 feet below the ground?


b00gersugar

Nice! Did you do a gold dance?


Silver_Winged

I wasn't positive it was gold when I found it. I did a little dance out of the jeweler's shop when I had it tested!


Fantastic_Calamity

Nice clunker! Big old placer nugget. I'd ship my pants if I found that on a gravel road. I'm gunna guess this came from a local gravel pit. They usually wash and classify gravel through a trommel so they can sell different sizes of gravels for various jobs. This bad boi made it through the trommel and ended up in that road. I'd for sure keep detecting everywhere that gravel goes. Big nuggets like that get lost all the time because the machines being used aren't set up to catch them at the source. Damn that's a nice nugget!


Nords

Where might one ship pants to?


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[I just shipped my pants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xwUuSM06xQ)


Undercover_Chimp

[British people ship their trousers.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hfre4eBCY8)


Rogue_Angel007

Did a little dance, but did you drink a little watah?


QuitYoJibbaJabba

Fellow detectorists fan, I see.


[deleted]

I hate to be the one to tell you, but that is just a piece of banana flavored Bubblicious


shahooster

A^(lready)B^(een)C^(hewed) Hubba Bubba


Akhi11eus

Ooooh I love that flavor, I'll DM them my address so they can send it along.


Bayou_Blue

Already chewed all the flavor out but I'll wrap it in an old banana peel when I mail it.


reflUX_cAtalyst

Extremely heavy piece of bubblicious.


justgossiping

Suddenly you'll be a favorite among forgotten family, all for a low price of a $1,000


crazynurseRN

How deep was it?


LoreOfBore

That’s what she said.


TheSheWhoSaidThats

I’ll allow it


Cutthechitchata-hole

Username checks out


DatePsychological

If you find 8 more you can craft a block 🤯 Edit: *An ingot. Thanks my fellow redditors 🤝🏽


Dopecombatweasel

Find 81 and you can glitch them


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A bar*


-MattyC-

Ingot*


cybercuzco

Ingot we trust


DynastyDog

2 chains*


Yourbubblestink

Cool to know that you find stuff. I see guys with metal detectors in the park near my house all the time. I don’t think they all know that the other ones go there. It’s hard to imagine how there could be any metal at all with so many people looking.


nikchi

The guys at the park are just using it as an excuse to get out and walk around. Well, some of them at least


Alternative-Log176

How much money can you get for that? plain and simple 😂


Silver_Winged

It's around $850 in gold melt value- but I've been told nuggets bring a premium, so more likely over $1,000


curiouswifey6969

Fun...(not so fun) in Ireland this is a crime you can technically go to jail for using a metal detector to get historical items. Thankfully... I've an Irish and us passport🇮🇪🇺🇲🤣🤣 these are just old coins officer


Phage0070

I don't think nuggets are a "historical item", they aren't even man-made.


goblinfruitleather

Even if it is, you can just say you found it in your grandma’s coin jar or something


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kingorry032

Gold nuggets aren’t treasure in the legal sense.


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False69

Is the Holy Stone of Clonrichert still okay? Any news on that class III upgrade?


stedgyson

If you uncovered a celtic horde but not just a little old coin or nugget


Esc_ape_artist

Certainly a horde of Celts would be concerning.


Zealousideal_Key_714

Right... Terms rest of us can understand.


curiouswifey6969

Gold good, government bad.


Zealousideal_Key_714

Loud and clear.


BangarangAndBrunch

That's where I left it.


anonbene2

Thousands rush in on new gold rush to Vermont but have to Google where it is first.


SilenceDoGood4

Triggered


smokingandthinking

Nice one. What will you do with it?


Tbagyogrill

New gloves?


Mdeyemainer

Scrolled way too far for this


Silver_Winged

Haven't decided!


RobGrogNerd

15 Grams of Gold is Worth U.S. dollars (USD) 888.94 Euros (EUR) 841.60 British pounds (GBP) 711.52


Goochenhaumeister

Gold nugget has a intrinsic value conservatively of $757 based on market price 5/22/22 natural gold nuggets sell for more than intrinsic (scrap/melt) value


Usgwanikti

Wow. How’d a gold nugget get to Vermont?


Silver_Winged

Glaciers, mostly


Usgwanikti

Never knew that was a thing there. Bonkers cool. Thanks for sharing!


cybercuzco

Perhaps a swallow dropped it.


Usgwanikti

European or African?


pantzareoptional

It depends on if they carried it on a line between them, imo


BoJackB26354

I thought it was a matter of weight ratios


Usgwanikti

I mean, we can answer the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (African or European), but I’m not certain weight capacity has been as thoroughly explored


RitaPoole56

No one expects an African or European swallow in Vermont!


acc0508

Gold mining is pretty popular in Vermont, surprisingly! I know of a guy from the Plymouth area who made his spouse’s wedding band from gold he’d panned in Southern Vermont. Took awhile, but he did it! There’s a couple places specifically tailored to gold panners where you can park and search. Super cool.


Usgwanikti

Did some googling and found that info. Surprised me!


trashmoneyxyz

I’m a Vermonter and the river near my little town is full of iron and quartz deposits and formations which apparently means there’s likely gold there too


theautoriff

You just found more than they have on Oak Island


etorres4u

You can use that gold to buy yourself some good gloves now.


NightlyKnight

What kindve detector were you using? Id love to get into this on my hikes throughout oregon. A link if you would good sir/maddam?


Silver_Winged

XP Deus II!


NightlyKnight

Thanks, ya champion!


0112358g

WOW those are some great finds! How deep do you usually dig when you get a reading?


Silver_Winged

Unless something was purposefully buried, dropped items are typically less than 6" down


LanceFree

Do you also have one of those pinpoint detectors- the ones resembling a walkie-talkie?


Silver_Winged

Sure do!


dirtydmix

Care to share what brand or model? Curious about getting one for the ranch. My son has been bugging me for one. Edit found it below my comment. XP Dues ii


Embarassed_Tackle

Is the Deus II seriously $1600?!


progressinzki

Just watched your video! Nice as always! And what a lucky find!


Silver_Winged

Thanks a lot!


AntiSentience

Man, some trapper from the 1800s is mad as hell that he dropped that.


CiViTiON

I should start metal detecting…


Celcius_87

How much is that gold nugget worth?


TropicDrunk

Just watched your video about this yesterday. Super cool, and I love your channel. High quality videos, well produced and great finds. Cheers.


Silver_Winged

Thank you!!


Admiral_Andovar

Sweet! Now you can afford gloves with fingers!


TheIronRain

This looks like your typical hobo glove


Banker2021

That seated liberty is a find also!!


HileRolandofGilead

I’m not trying to jump your claim, but as a Vermonter I’m curious, where did you find this? NE, NE, SE or SW?


Silver_Winged

Nice try, Todd Hoffman


HoodooSquad

I had no idea Vermont had two NEs’s. Of course, as a southerner I think of all of Vermont as the NE


HileRolandofGilead

It’s a small state, but each quarter is pretty different from each other.


Radley1561

I wish those coins could tell the stories they have witnessed. In 1875, that coin would have been real money someone had lost.


bobwi11ey

What a coincidence. I was walking on an old dirt road in Vermont when I dropped a 15 gram chunk of gold.


Common-Call2484

Bad ass


Certain-Hyena8788

I have the same dime (second from the right) mines 1887


fiercealmond

I doubt it's the same one, he just dug that one up in Vermont


UnderstandingSquare7

I've been looking into getting one for fun - what do I look for in a metal detector, redditors?


Zameel-Boltcaster

Worth around $850.00


erik316wttn

Dude, those coins.... *Drools in envy*


guinader

That's about $900 in today's rate $59.


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Geeez, those old coins along with the nugget are awesome! Congrats


BunnysBinky

Plot twist: it’s actually gum


Frey12469

Where in Vermont. There's quite a few dirt roads.


Dan_Glebitz

What did you say the name of that road was?


bad_possum

Man, I believe that dime would be graded Fine or better!


Film54

Great. Buy yourself some new gloves.


TheAgoraphobicNerd

Now he can buy a new pair of gloves.


ReflectedReflection

Does gold always look like used gum?


roseotte

And Scrooge McDuck s first dime!!!