Lost at the landfill

So here’s the deal, I’m dying to know if there’s any actual way to track down a gold four-leaf clover ducat featuring George Washington ( http://www.srebrozlato.com/numizmati...sip-1915.shtml) that somehow ended up tossed straight into the trash by mistake. Like, do those massive landfill operations actually go through the garbage to sort out precious metals from all the other junk, or is that just a pipe dream? It isn't exactly worth a fortune or anything, but man, it’s got this huge sentimental value to me, so... 🙂

You can certainly claim it's worth something just for the sentimental value. Hahaha!
But you know perfectly well it’s worth at least $1333
. And you might as well say goodbye to it, because nobody at the local landfill is going to dig through the trash just to sort it out; I’d have to do the recycling myself.
Besides, if anyone actually finds it, you can bet they're keeping it for themselves.

Honestly, I hadn't even bothered to check what it was actually worth until just yesterday when I realized it was gone and figured my girlfriend or someone probably tossed it in the trash, so I went out looking for it. I haven't had it for all that long, maybe five years or so... My paternal grandmother gave it to me and told me she’d be so happy if I eventually passed it down to my own kids or grandkids one day just to keep it in the family... So yeah, that's why it carries so much weight for me 😉

If you want to keep a treasure like that in the family, your best bet is to find an identical one and pass it down to your grandson one day. It won't be your grandmother's specific piece, but it will be exactly the same thing. 🤷
Since there are so many of them out there, finding a replacement shouldn't be a problem at all.
Once something hits the trash, everything behind that bin goes straight into a garbage truck that crushes and compacts it all; there is absolutely no way to get back what was thrown away.
I'd suggest looking a bit more thoroughly around the house. I really don't believe something that size was just tossed out, especially since it doesn't look like junk or even a toy.