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>>53808497
>Where can I go in a small Midwest town to find some real treasure?

The original town (or neighborhood if it's a big town) rubbish dump. Every town had at least 1 designated dumping grounds, usually along the banks of a river/stream, ravine, or low lying wetlands unsuitable for building or farming, and frequently dumps were in or adjacent to the old town cemetery. Often it's on city-owned public land so access isn't a problem. Antique bottle, stoneware and marble collectors are about as crazy as token collectors, I've dug several pieces worth 4-figures and many worth over $100, and have eyeballed over a kilo of sterling silver and some coins plus some karat gold that was thrown out and dumped with the trash. Unless you find the original 1800s town picnic grounds or horse race track and it magically hasn't been filled with junk, built over or hit by generations of detectorists over the past 60 years then getting into the old bottle dump will yield far better treasure. You may have to dig deep, I regularly sink 8+ feet deep holes to get to the oldest and best stuff, but it's not hard for any man worth half his salt. I usually dig alone but made a new digging friend recently and we sank this hole at the end of December, on the 2nd day the high was -4F but when you're below the frost line it's comfy like an igloo down in the pit. We found 2.5oz of hallmarked sterling (a teaspoon, butter spreader, and guilloche makeup compact) and 2 very rare hand-blown embossed local bottles this dig.