Welcome to the Virtual Holt Museum
I started collecting things before I was 10 years old, I remember years ago (mid 1970's) when my parents stopped at a gas station out west somewhere and my Dad was shown by an older couple
their metal detecting proceeds from Lincoln Park in Chicago, I remember seeing those two buckets full of dirty coins and the Whites Coinmaster metal detectors that they had. Unknown to me at the time
I had the "BUG", my Dad was first to get a metal detector and I wouldn't let up until he got one for me, a Bounty Hunter TR500. That first year was incredible, I had a hobby that kept me out of
trouble and a hobby that would last until my mid 30's when disability took it away.
Everything shown here in this Virtual Holt Museum I have dug up, all over the United States. But more than that, I happened to get
lucky when my parents bought some land in Florida to build a house where we would now live in the remains of a forgotten ghosttown called Ridgewood that was consumed in a forest fire during the 1920's as it was reported to me by the old people
who lived near us. For over twenty years, sll the coins and artifacts that I have carefully dug up--date from 1826 to 1896 with a few artifacts that were dated prior to 1826 and so labled in my collections.
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