The spirit of detection: a treasure in oneself

Who did not intend to speak with television like in various medias (daily newspapers the most read, the most listened radios, re-examined specialized...) about the recent business about the treasure of royal currencies discovered " by chance " (the chance makes the things sometimes well...) by a 2 year old child at the edge of a path about the forest about Montmorency. One remembers it all also, of the history of this couple which walks along a river close to Mans and which discovers in a fortuitous way a batch of several tens of Gallic gold statères.

That resembles a fairy tale, that any prospector dreams one day to live.

One suspects it well, to discover a treasure, of some nature that it is, represents a node to be reached, a leitmotiv which us trotte in the head when a detector is bought. Moreover, general public, not initiated with the prospection, will not miss a day by seeing you in a field or a wood with your " frying pan " to say to you:

- " Then, you find or' " or even: " You seek a treasure ".

Even if the two businesses quoted before became media, the treasures are not like the sheets, they do not collect with the shovel, and that each one takes care not to think the opposite.

Let us return one moment maintaining on the concept of treasure and its definition by dividing into sheets the dictionary: " together of invaluable things piled up to be preserved... hidden or hidden thing which is discovered by the only result of the chance ". We agree well.

I have been a prospector for 8 years, less regular for 2 years but always " accro " and I never found treasure in the literal sense of the term. The fact that thousands of people are in the same case as me has certainly a reassuring side, but contrary to some, it is not the ultimate goal of my passion. The truth is elsewhere, as would say the friend Mulder, large destroyer of the hidden truths.

The truth of our passion is in our faith and our capacity of amazement.

With how much recoveries I was astonished and surprised by a discovery of less pecuniary value but ô how much aesthetic with my yeux'

These are the eyes which make the value of the things, not the tickets.

How many contexts of prospection left me an impression of total happiness, which of no banals would judge...

I address this article to the people who confuse detection and profit; they will be recognized easily. I would like to say to them that there are however prospectors who can be moved with the sight of a currency sans.pour.autant.qu' it is of gold or money, or a simple object of copper, that they will preciously keep in a collection slowly made up and which they will be proud to have. On the contrary, the retailers are interested only in the money, and are even ready not to have any photographic memory of their discovery...

And if very of a blow, these " invaluable and hidden things " of the definition took another sens' And if it were not quite simply the feeling which re-appears while digging, the heart which beats a little more quickly, the eyes which shine... Are not this finally things more invaluable than tout'

Truths prospectors know well that most significant is the emotion of the discovery, the fact of crossing the centuries in one moment and to make revive the forgotten history of the collective memory.

There is our richness, there is our treasure.

Nicolas Leclerc