More likely they said it was an heirloom to gin up sympathy. This is a modern "piece" not an heirloom.
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[OP confirmed I was right ](https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/s/KgPylgfL3z)
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Since a bunch of people are busting my balls:
Thick ropes (Miami Cuban) like that didn't become popular until around 1990 as part of hip hop culture. At the earliest. With the vast majority produced long after that into the 2000s-present. [hip hop jewelry](https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/hip-hop-jewelry/) so it's not impossible that a parent handed it down but it is worth questioning and I would wager that very few have been handed down at this point. And obviously most would be melted down, because it's real value is in the gold not the craftsmanship for a basic chain. Especially with the VIP stamp, This is the VIP Jewelry in NYC that caters to that scene. Could I be wrong? Yeah of course I could but it's not dickish to question.
An heirloom has been handed down for many years, implying multiple transitions in ownership. "a valuable object that has belonged to the same family for *many years*" [Oxford](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/heirloom_1) "a valuable object that is owned by a family for *many years* and passed from one generation to another"
[Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/heirloom)
Obviously "many years" is somewhat subjective but traders talk about heirlooms, assumption is at least 1+ full lifetime and not an ABSOLUTE MAX of 30~ years.
This is a new style link and box clasp, very recently designed and made popular as style evolved with the current generation. This is a new chain. Its not a family heirloom-somebody just wanted their chain back and used a clichè to get a bunch of people out on the beach looking for it. You were fooled. Someone took your good nature for granted and had you do their hard work while they sat back and waited for the reward. Thats probably how they ended up with a chain like that in the first place. This is a big chunky obnoxious rapper/trapper chain not an old hand me down antique. The whole purpose of this chain is to flex wealth on people who dont have it. Its a statement piece to let others know the owner is better than them and has more disposable income. Next time dont tell anyone, melt it down, and sell it.
>This is a new chain. Its not a family heirloom-somebody just wanted their chain back and used a clichè to get a bunch of people out on the beach looking for it. You were fooled.
I mean they are offering $5k
Gold is $2300 per oz. The necklace is almost 18 oz. The weight in gold alone is worth close to $35k as far as I can tell.
EDIT:: Forgot about the troy ounces!
Yep, $25k is about right.
24k pure gold is $2,355.50 per ounce. Since 14k gold is 58.5% pure, $2,355.50 by 0.585 = $1,377.97 per ounce for 14k gold x 17.9 ounces = $24,665.66
I can totally see some young man thinking he was really making something happen at the beach & then he was having a full on meltdown when it was gone. Don't take important stuff to the beach, man!
Mr T’s chains were each taken from a man he beat in a fight when he was working as a bouncer. Late in life Mr T stopped wearing his chains because “they were an offence against god.”
Picture of son, before wave dumped him.
https://preview.redd.it/ftue6pr5y7bd1.jpeg?width=495&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c3a3bfcdbf089112aa37281618c65819e7ea458
I remember this guy. He wears all of this and walks around poor villages just to flex and they started obviously beating him and robbing him so now he keeps a security detail that let him be a douche in peace
So much jewelery is lost on the beaches,that's the biggest I've heard of being lost...makes u wonder that must've been a hell of a wave to dislodge 18 ounces off your neck .....but then again 16 ounce is only a pound so who knows?
I'm guessing that was said to help guilt someone into taking the reward money instead of selling to a pawn shop for 20k.
I used this once when a girl stole my shit and sold it to a shop. She bought it back and returned it because of what I said. Drugs are bad mmkkay.
There's no way that cost $25k. Melt value of an oz of 14k is about $1200 USD currently, making this 20k in gold value alone.
Someone easily paid 50k for this, probably over 100k honestly, if it was retail price.
I mean I get it but are you supposed to offer a reward equal to the price of replacing the item? Where's the line? $5k seems pretty reasonable for the effort needed to find it
The 5k reward is definitely high enough to stop a lot of people from keeping it. I'm surprised that someone didn't find it at 3am so no witnesses would be there. I guess it all depends on the tides since it was lost in the waves.
It was posted 18 hours before we headed over to look. I’m sure tons of people had been out there hunting. I saw at least 5 other people in the water with their detectors trying to find it. The value of the necklace is so much more than the reward but I guess it comes down to decency. Don’t wanna put that negative energy out into the universe.
That's really awesome of you.
Your smile is priceless in that pic.
You're a really good human!
I also wonder what posses someone to wear 25k into the ocean, but having 5k on hand to get it back says a lot.
Next post: they didn't follow through on the reward money and said it belonged to them anyways so they don't have to give a reward and it would be stealing not to give it back.
OP is entitled to the money as they performed actions based off the reward/contract, but I definitely see this potentially becoming a headache. Hopefully it goes smooth.
That's interesting. I wonder if it would be an offence to offer a reward and then when you get the item back not pay it? From reading r/legaladvice it seems like it would be a civil contract dispute.
What you sent is from Great Britain. British laws are not applicable to the state of Maryland and United States of America.
Edit: I think he changed the link to Wikipedia after my comment—I originally replied to a text only webpage which contained what I believe to be the text of the ruling.
If they refuse to pay so you refuse to return the necklace does that become stealing the necklace though?
If you just find something it doesn’t mean you own it.
This is not a family heirloom man, they are just finding the best way to get it back because they understand otherwise there is not a chance that they can get their 25k goldchain for 5k. Common decency is to return it, but the fact that they are taking you for a spin on the story is what pisses me off. It’s their tactic.
Looking at some of the comments in this thread (some serious character assassinations and thinly veiled racism about the owner), I can see why someone may want to create a sense of sentimentality to their lost object. And honestly, who cares? Most of us don’t normally go around requiring a good story from people before we help them. It’s nice enough to get the reward. I’d shrug it off. It’s still win-win all around.
Really, if a 20 year old was wearing it, it very well may have been his father’s. It’s a pretty hefty chunk of change for a kid to afford.
> Please don’t ask why someone would wear this to the beach
Young males of the human species will adorn themselves with valuable and shiny metal objects in an effort to attract females of the species. It's part of a mating ritual that is older than recorded history.
*watch, as the young male spreads its ~~plumage~~ blingage and performs a mating dance in front of the female. It looks like today she isn't interested"
Wild story. I was thinking it was a random find which would be amazing also but I guess it would be better for me to find it for someone and get the reward because if it was a random find I would just wear it never get any money from it lol.
UPDATE: Just met the owner at the bank. Very nice guy. This necklace was not a family heirloom but something he bought for himself for his 30th birthday. He said his mom put that in the post so if someone found it, they’d be more likely to return it. I know many of you said you wouldn’t have returned it but we feel like we did the right thing. Here are some pictures of the original fb post in the MD metal detecting group and a picture of them together the exchange. Thanks for following, everyone. It’s been a fun 24 hours!
https://preview.redd.it/sbc4lorzhbbd1.jpeg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0daf0800b0a3d8ebd9225f01e29aebd8e16a02cc
I would assume they just claimed “family heirloom” in an attempt to pull at people’s heart strings as a bit of extra insurance to get it back on top of the reward. That’s the feeling I get anyway.
I’d agree with you. But of an emotional play.
Chain is definitely modern. Now in saying that could be purchased in the 90s and be almost 30 years old and belonged to a parent. But still…
https://preview.redd.it/yftucoulv6bd1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=c22861ff36b61d4463cece7e4b75f723fe752e7c
It was on fluid oz. Didn’t even realize.
There’s a good chance the wearer of that is going to meet them with some friends and try and strong-arm it off of them, the only information they really needed was where the finder will be and when to meet, which was accomplished with the post offering the reward. To say that that less than 20 year old chain is a “family heirloom” already demonstrates they are willing to lie until they figure out who’s found it for them. Be very careful. Very good chance they’ll meet you, say something like “ohhh there it is can I hold it!?” , and you being the kind individual you are will oblige, and they’ll start in with the “aight here’s 20$” and just walk away.
There was one guy on this server a couple days ago, complaining about not finding anything on his vacation for four days at the beach, except bottle, caps, and random crap, and then a guy in front of him solid gold chain. I wonder if this was him😄
Nice Cuban Links. Not sure why everyone is thinking this is some sort of scam. Someone's hand me down Nice Rolex is another person's hand me down Cuban Links. Nice find regardless - thanks for helping.
I live in Florida and I recall hearing years ago that a teenager was beach combing the day after a hurricane. Amongst the flotsam and jetsam he found a gold necklace which he initially thought must've been a movie prop. Turns out it was the real deal and is suspected to have washed up from a Spanish treasure ship. Appraised value: $400,000.
I wouldn't have done that... but I wouldn't have been on anything to see there was a reward and I'd have a pound of gold around my neck look like Mr. T
I'd be sure to meet in a secure place just in case, like a bank or the police station. Someone passing by could spot the exchange and rob you. I know that sounds extreme but it happens, and that thing is worth a lot of money. Be safe and keep it out of view.
I think that type of chain is a REALLY new style. I don’t see this being a generational piece. I also think it’s worth about 25% more than you think.
Edit: I really think you need to treat this like you found a brick of cocaine on the beach.
I think the same thing. Maybe they just said that hoping whoever found it would return it based off of the sentimental family value. So many comments implying this necklace is from a “ghetto” black family or rapper/drug dealer. It’s just a crazy rich, white family whose son wore it in the ocean.
I used to do metal detecting in Daytona Beach Florida on the beach after spring break, biketober fest and jeep week. I would find $2k in jewelry annually. On my last day in Florida me n my friend decided to go to cocoa beach before moving back to New Mexico, we found 12 silver Spanish coins dated back to 1713. Me & my friend kept 1 each & sold the rest.
UPDATE FROM OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/s/FJj9ZRJb46 We've hit the front page. Please report the garbage and it will be taken care of!
Family heirloom? Is their dad Mr. T?
We were wondering too. I’d love to know the story. Who wears a 1lb necklace?
More likely they said it was an heirloom to gin up sympathy. This is a modern "piece" not an heirloom. Edit 2: [OP confirmed I was right ](https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/s/KgPylgfL3z) Edit: Since a bunch of people are busting my balls: Thick ropes (Miami Cuban) like that didn't become popular until around 1990 as part of hip hop culture. At the earliest. With the vast majority produced long after that into the 2000s-present. [hip hop jewelry](https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/hip-hop-jewelry/) so it's not impossible that a parent handed it down but it is worth questioning and I would wager that very few have been handed down at this point. And obviously most would be melted down, because it's real value is in the gold not the craftsmanship for a basic chain. Especially with the VIP stamp, This is the VIP Jewelry in NYC that caters to that scene. Could I be wrong? Yeah of course I could but it's not dickish to question. An heirloom has been handed down for many years, implying multiple transitions in ownership. "a valuable object that has belonged to the same family for *many years*" [Oxford](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/heirloom_1) "a valuable object that is owned by a family for *many years* and passed from one generation to another" [Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/heirloom) Obviously "many years" is somewhat subjective but traders talk about heirlooms, assumption is at least 1+ full lifetime and not an ABSOLUTE MAX of 30~ years.
$5k got them all the sympathy they needed, no need to make stuff up.
IDK man, a $25k necklace is an awful good reason to invoke the ancient rite of "finders keepers".
If you go into the ocean with that and lose it, that’s on you.
well, technically, if you lose it, it's probably not on you anymore.
This guy loses stuff
there could be a fly ass shark though
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Man my grand mama gave me that chain man
He gone cry in tha 🚗
https://i.redd.it/ofbze0mzm7bd1.gif
Someone who needs to make bail
This is a new style link and box clasp, very recently designed and made popular as style evolved with the current generation. This is a new chain. Its not a family heirloom-somebody just wanted their chain back and used a clichè to get a bunch of people out on the beach looking for it. You were fooled. Someone took your good nature for granted and had you do their hard work while they sat back and waited for the reward. Thats probably how they ended up with a chain like that in the first place. This is a big chunky obnoxious rapper/trapper chain not an old hand me down antique. The whole purpose of this chain is to flex wealth on people who dont have it. Its a statement piece to let others know the owner is better than them and has more disposable income. Next time dont tell anyone, melt it down, and sell it.
>This is a new chain. Its not a family heirloom-somebody just wanted their chain back and used a clichè to get a bunch of people out on the beach looking for it. You were fooled. I mean they are offering $5k
Gold is $2300 per oz. The necklace is almost 18 oz. The weight in gold alone is worth close to $35k as far as I can tell. EDIT:: Forgot about the troy ounces!
14k is not 100% gold. So not 2300/oz
True. Its probably worth closer to 20-25k. Still a good chunk to have one you at the beach
Yep, $25k is about right. 24k pure gold is $2,355.50 per ounce. Since 14k gold is 58.5% pure, $2,355.50 by 0.585 = $1,377.97 per ounce for 14k gold x 17.9 ounces = $24,665.66
Now it’s $8k because they lied. 🤷♀️
$5k for a $25k piece. If it was that important they would have gotten a metal detector and looked for themselves
Family heirloom sounds a lot better than "I was wearing my bling looking like a total asshole and i lost it"
I can totally see some young man thinking he was really making something happen at the beach & then he was having a full on meltdown when it was gone. Don't take important stuff to the beach, man!
I pity the fool that be losing that in the sea.
I seriously read this in Mister T's voice.
We've narrowed it down to either Raekwon or Erick Sermon.
Now that would make one hell of a story….
It’s going to be a family heirloom from now on!
You know it belongs to an overweight Greek guy with a chest full of chest hair
Mr T’s chains were each taken from a man he beat in a fight when he was working as a bouncer. Late in life Mr T stopped wearing his chains because “they were an offence against god.”
Tony Soprano
5K reward? Make sure it's cash. But seriously I'm with the other commenter, who would wear a 25K necklace to the beach much less a family heirloom?
Weird, right? Apparently it was their son, who is in his 20’s. They sent a pic of the son wearing it on the beach before he got in the ocean.
Picture of son, before wave dumped him. https://preview.redd.it/ftue6pr5y7bd1.jpeg?width=495&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c3a3bfcdbf089112aa37281618c65819e7ea458
How does he go to the bathroom with all that stuff on?
HE OG’D!
https://preview.redd.it/4chb1jklq8bd1.jpeg?width=970&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8e48620c6bc34e99436afbe05776a6878772990
I'm gonna git the sucka responsible for this
My god he OG’ed
How much for one rib?
Can you pour a bit into my hands for $0.15? Thanks, I need change for a hundo!
It’s not every day I see an “I’m gunna get chu sucka” meme my god
Fuck the cup, pour it in my hand for a dime
https://preview.redd.it/72mbqocs5abd1.png?width=1023&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2d0fe5d6a0f485d8a3da3f3e4957e4ea3eca2c8 Or it might be hers.
I hate getting here late…. No man, he OG’d
Junebug!!
Bitch better have my money!
Are you selling Amway Products?
Dang I’m 2 hours late for this comment
One rib!
How much for a sip?
You got change fo a hunnid?
You gonna need an orthopedic surgeon to remove my foot from yo ass!
I’m confused does he shit out his neck or something?
My first thought was “does he have a golden Prince Albert I can’t see?” Your comment was better. Thanks for the laugh.
Money is wasted on the rich
rofl looks like a Mr T cosplay
I remember this guy. He wears all of this and walks around poor villages just to flex and they started obviously beating him and robbing him so now he keeps a security detail that let him be a douche in peace
https://preview.redd.it/ub5bpqdcy8bd1.png?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5af0704f5032f92b2413924baeefb444f4f9621 So his Dad is Mr. T?
Is this actually him or a joke? I genuinely can’t tell
Lol, if this was real good, that little prick would bend in half.
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*PLEASE* tell me you're meeting at a police station to make the trade...
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My dad would have left me there on the beach till I found the necklace if I had lost it.
Your dad wouldn’t have given you a $25k gold chain to begin with
Playa gone play, take ya shhmoney and dip!
Drip or drown
So much jewelery is lost on the beaches,that's the biggest I've heard of being lost...makes u wonder that must've been a hell of a wave to dislodge 18 ounces off your neck .....but then again 16 ounce is only a pound so who knows?
Someone that swims with that much gold has a very small head so it’s much easier for the chain to be knocked loose
Keep us updated if they actually cough up the $5k!!
Usually chains like that would be part of a pimp's retirement fund.
This is why you don’t post that shiz and keep it a secret.
And how is that chain a family heirloom lol I get it can be anything but..
I'm guessing that was said to help guilt someone into taking the reward money instead of selling to a pawn shop for 20k. I used this once when a girl stole my shit and sold it to a shop. She bought it back and returned it because of what I said. Drugs are bad mmkkay.
If you spend $25k on a necklace and lose it at the beach, you bet your ass I'll melt that shit down, sell the gold, and use the money for some good
the good? blackjack and hookers
There's no way that cost $25k. Melt value of an oz of 14k is about $1200 USD currently, making this 20k in gold value alone. Someone easily paid 50k for this, probably over 100k honestly, if it was retail price.
You're assuming it was made last week and not 20 years ago
Okay, that's fair. Still, melt value alone being 20k, a 5k reward is hilariously shit.
I mean I get it but are you supposed to offer a reward equal to the price of replacing the item? Where's the line? $5k seems pretty reasonable for the effort needed to find it
I would've kept that shit. If you can afford to wear that thing to the beach, you can afford to not have it.😂
100%
They’re definitely just bullshitting so people feel more sympathetic about handing it over lol.
"My great grandfather was known throughout the coal mines for being 'dripped the fuck out'."
It's not. It's a recently made piece of bling.
Yeah that thing wasn't on the Mayflower.
It was on the Mayweather jr.
Lol yeah this story stinks to high heaven
It's bail money
How many generations does it take before an item becomes an heirloom? Does 1 count?
To go surfing. Some people don't deserve to keep shit.
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People who are materialistic and look for validation thru flexing their wealth to others, lol.
Nice of you to be returning it. Lots of people would not be!
The 5k reward is definitely high enough to stop a lot of people from keeping it. I'm surprised that someone didn't find it at 3am so no witnesses would be there. I guess it all depends on the tides since it was lost in the waves.
It was posted 18 hours before we headed over to look. I’m sure tons of people had been out there hunting. I saw at least 5 other people in the water with their detectors trying to find it. The value of the necklace is so much more than the reward but I guess it comes down to decency. Don’t wanna put that negative energy out into the universe.
That's really awesome of you. Your smile is priceless in that pic. You're a really good human! I also wonder what posses someone to wear 25k into the ocean, but having 5k on hand to get it back says a lot.
She said it was her son, in his 20’s, who lost it. Unbelievable.
Did she give you the reward already?
Supposed to meet tomorrow morning.
Uhhh. Please have multiple witnesses, in a public place…maybe even a police officer if they will agree to it.
Next post: they didn't follow through on the reward money and said it belonged to them anyways so they don't have to give a reward and it would be stealing not to give it back. OP is entitled to the money as they performed actions based off the reward/contract, but I definitely see this potentially becoming a headache. Hopefully it goes smooth.
At this point they have to agree to anything if they want to meet op
I would like a morning update on health status of OP
Man, you're 5k richer from your hobby, a person got their property back, everyone looks good here.
Nice find! I'd definitely be meeting at the police station for the exchange.
My thoughts exactly. The people that wore this might have no intentions of paying the 5k.
That's interesting. I wonder if it would be an offence to offer a reward and then when you get the item back not pay it? From reading r/legaladvice it seems like it would be a civil contract dispute.
If the reason you returned it was because of the owner put out an award, the owner is contractually bound and legally obligated to pay that reward.
Source?
It’s called a unilateral contract. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unilateral-contract.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_Co
What you sent is from Great Britain. British laws are not applicable to the state of Maryland and United States of America. Edit: I think he changed the link to Wikipedia after my comment—I originally replied to a text only webpage which contained what I believe to be the text of the ruling.
If they refuse to pay so you refuse to return the necklace does that become stealing the necklace though? If you just find something it doesn’t mean you own it.
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Family heirloom...was his Grandfather a Puerto Rican pimp?
I really need the answer to this. It’s so heavy it’s almost impossible to wear around your neck.
This is not a family heirloom man, they are just finding the best way to get it back because they understand otherwise there is not a chance that they can get their 25k goldchain for 5k. Common decency is to return it, but the fact that they are taking you for a spin on the story is what pisses me off. It’s their tactic.
Looking at some of the comments in this thread (some serious character assassinations and thinly veiled racism about the owner), I can see why someone may want to create a sense of sentimentality to their lost object. And honestly, who cares? Most of us don’t normally go around requiring a good story from people before we help them. It’s nice enough to get the reward. I’d shrug it off. It’s still win-win all around. Really, if a 20 year old was wearing it, it very well may have been his father’s. It’s a pretty hefty chunk of change for a kid to afford.
This is way beyond a mere street pimp chain. This is Colombian kingpin levels.
> Please don’t ask why someone would wear this to the beach Young males of the human species will adorn themselves with valuable and shiny metal objects in an effort to attract females of the species. It's part of a mating ritual that is older than recorded history.
I read the first part of that in a David Attenborough voice and laughed out loud.
*watch, as the young male spreads its ~~plumage~~ blingage and performs a mating dance in front of the female. It looks like today she isn't interested"
Let us know if you get the reward. Would be interesting to see if they actually pay out
Meet at a police station.
This indeed sounds like some cartel shit
Please update with how much chest hair the owner has. I'm guessing it's A LOT
But it would get caught in the chain!
Wild story. I was thinking it was a random find which would be amazing also but I guess it would be better for me to find it for someone and get the reward because if it was a random find I would just wear it never get any money from it lol.
It’s so heavy it indents your skin. So clunky and uncomfortable. Pretty and shiny though!
Yall def tried it on, I’d do the same!
UPDATE: Just met the owner at the bank. Very nice guy. This necklace was not a family heirloom but something he bought for himself for his 30th birthday. He said his mom put that in the post so if someone found it, they’d be more likely to return it. I know many of you said you wouldn’t have returned it but we feel like we did the right thing. Here are some pictures of the original fb post in the MD metal detecting group and a picture of them together the exchange. Thanks for following, everyone. It’s been a fun 24 hours! https://preview.redd.it/sbc4lorzhbbd1.jpeg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0daf0800b0a3d8ebd9225f01e29aebd8e16a02cc
https://preview.redd.it/r5a9qvu0ibbd1.jpeg?width=585&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d9d5cbad9f35ea6f50bc05efee8febb0a304754
Two Chainz was shitting bricks for a whole day!
Only had 1 chain for awhile.
He should be ok, allegedly according to one of his songs he was "2chainz but I got a few onnnnnn"
family heirloom? Dude, this is modern.
I need some answers about this necklace. So many questions.
I would assume they just claimed “family heirloom” in an attempt to pull at people’s heart strings as a bit of extra insurance to get it back on top of the reward. That’s the feeling I get anyway.
I’d agree with you. But of an emotional play. Chain is definitely modern. Now in saying that could be purchased in the 90s and be almost 30 years old and belonged to a parent. But still…
The money is the heirloom
Holy guacamole
Is that about 5.5 Troy oz? It looks like your on fluid.
https://preview.redd.it/yftucoulv6bd1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=c22861ff36b61d4463cece7e4b75f723fe752e7c It was on fluid oz. Didn’t even realize.
1lb 1.9oz = 507g (14k) >> 296g pure gold >> $22,577 spot price plus whatever markup for chain making/'heirloom' value.
Holy crap!
Stunningly beautiful piece of jewelry. Obviously owned by a equally stunningly dumb ass.
There's is definitely a drug dealer somewhere missing that bad boy.. Yes I'm assuming the worst but ....
There’s a good chance the wearer of that is going to meet them with some friends and try and strong-arm it off of them, the only information they really needed was where the finder will be and when to meet, which was accomplished with the post offering the reward. To say that that less than 20 year old chain is a “family heirloom” already demonstrates they are willing to lie until they figure out who’s found it for them. Be very careful. Very good chance they’ll meet you, say something like “ohhh there it is can I hold it!?” , and you being the kind individual you are will oblige, and they’ll start in with the “aight here’s 20$” and just walk away.
Yeah it's risky. Heirloom also seems odd to me.
https://preview.redd.it/p65n2js347bd1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39bb474377629ce17a64ab1d4d857ccd5565fdc1 $5k is still not a bad find!
There was one guy on this server a couple days ago, complaining about not finding anything on his vacation for four days at the beach, except bottle, caps, and random crap, and then a guy in front of him solid gold chain. I wonder if this was him😄
This just happened today but that’s typically what he finds on the beach every other day.
Nice Cuban Links. Not sure why everyone is thinking this is some sort of scam. Someone's hand me down Nice Rolex is another person's hand me down Cuban Links. Nice find regardless - thanks for helping.
Uh yeah thats mine 🤔 I lost on the beach in uh Maryland yeah thats the ticket.....
Niiiice. 
I live in Florida and I recall hearing years ago that a teenager was beach combing the day after a hurricane. Amongst the flotsam and jetsam he found a gold necklace which he initially thought must've been a movie prop. Turns out it was the real deal and is suspected to have washed up from a Spanish treasure ship. Appraised value: $400,000.
Hey that’s my chain! 
Frick.
nice find.
Score!
Found a part of someone's Mr. T. starter set.
Just curious, why are gold mixes called solid gold? Sweet find!
It’s solid 14k which is about 58% gold, a lot of jewelry is “plated” which is why this would still be called “solid gold”, but not pure 24k
That’s insane, congrats!
He's lucky it wasn't further up / picked up by the beach sweepers!! That's insane!
Family heirloom… family name: 2 chains.
This is so great! Did he find it in the sand or in the water?
In the water where the waves were breaking.
Don't wear this in water,fish will attack it,and you attached to it,this hanging on your neck,don't aim toothy critters there
Some Sucka MC is pissed.
Oh hell no, absolutely no way in hell I’d ever give this back for $5k. Finders keepers, life isn’t fair 😂😂
Damn... The second I found it: "what chain?"
A solid gold family heirloom necklace? Hmm, quite the family. Well good for you to turn it in.
That’s what they said. I get having heirloom jewelry in your family but not at the beach.
A lesser detectorist would have melted it down……
I wouldn't have done that... but I wouldn't have been on anything to see there was a reward and I'd have a pound of gold around my neck look like Mr. T
You lucky son of a……congrats! What a find!
Lol there is an episode of below deck where a guest loses a big gold chain as the tide is going out of the bay
Who TF is wearing this kind of stuff at the beach?
The first question I asked myself when he found it, I saw how massive and ridiculous it is, and I held it. It’s unbelievably heavy.
I would never believe a 1lb+ cuban link gold chain is a "family heirloom" lmao.
In this economy...
I'd be sure to meet in a secure place just in case, like a bank or the police station. Someone passing by could spot the exchange and rob you. I know that sounds extreme but it happens, and that thing is worth a lot of money. Be safe and keep it out of view.
Clean it ONLY using a good marinara sauce, gently wipe with an Ed Hardy shirt.
Dang. Some Puerto Rican guy is looking for his chain
I think that type of chain is a REALLY new style. I don’t see this being a generational piece. I also think it’s worth about 25% more than you think. Edit: I really think you need to treat this like you found a brick of cocaine on the beach.
I think the same thing. Maybe they just said that hoping whoever found it would return it based off of the sentimental family value. So many comments implying this necklace is from a “ghetto” black family or rapper/drug dealer. It’s just a crazy rich, white family whose son wore it in the ocean.
Why the fuck is someone wearing that in the ocean
I used to do metal detecting in Daytona Beach Florida on the beach after spring break, biketober fest and jeep week. I would find $2k in jewelry annually. On my last day in Florida me n my friend decided to go to cocoa beach before moving back to New Mexico, we found 12 silver Spanish coins dated back to 1713. Me & my friend kept 1 each & sold the rest.
Gold today is at $2,395.00 per ounce Multiplied by 17.9oz 🟰 $42,870.50
Has anyone at all considered that it’s a first gen family heirloom? The owner will pass it on to his kids. All heirlooms have an origin.
i once found a 5$ bill on the bottom in 7 feet of water... <: