Originally Posted by Amanda Syme
We found silver. Coins, spoons, shoe buckles. And musket balls.


Amanda, that is a start and you definitely have the potential for being my kind of companion adventurer. How about dinner on Friday night so you I can interest in going along with me on my next trip to the jungles of Borneo to hunt for a long lost large ruby eye the size of a grapefruit? It is valued at two million dollars. Be sure and take plenty of mosquito repellant with you.

Amanda, and everyone reading this... I need to give you all some very expensive advice but it comes for FREE from those of us who learned it the hard way.... The advice is this: If you ever find any of the artifacts mentioned above or anything old for that matter: DO NOT CLEAN IT. Because doing so can ruin the value of the article and thus the resale price of it if you ever want to sell it. You must leave everything in the condition you found it in so that it can retain its value.

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