Terry called me last week and told me that her family had lost their house in the Palisades fire. Her mother had a very expensive gold and silver coin collection and desperately wanted to know if there was a chance I could find it for them. I met them two days later in Santa Monica and followed them to their property in the Palisades. They guessed at the area that the coins should have been but the mom felt like she had moved them to another location sometime ago. I started to remove some debris and began finding some of the silver coins, I sifted more carefully and began finding more and silver coins, Some of the coins of silver half dollars were fused together. I finally started to find the gold coins which included a 1874 20 dollar gold piece and a 1899 20 dollar gold piece. There were over 10 gold coins and over 150 silver coins recovered so it turned out that the collection was never moved to the second location. When Terry called her mother with the good news they were both very happy and relieved. It was a successful search for me with a positive out come for the family.
Great job.