I am in a metal detector club and we just had our annual "hunt" where we plant silver coins and other goodies for the members to dig up. I got about one half the face value of last year but it is worth more than last years finds since the price of silver has more than doubled. Since I have been doing this for 35 years and kept all of my finds I now have 38 pounds of silver. Too bad I didn't get into gold back then also.