Ground Finds

Sometime back I noticed one of the 7-11 workers sweeping the sweepings underneath one of the two outside garbage containers. They sit up on four little two inch posts. Made a mental note to check under them when they wasn't full or being watched over by the staff. Saturday I found them both empty with the bags sitting outside the containers. I twirled the first one, looked under, nothing. The second one was something else. Twirled it, and found a little 18 inch or so Black Snake curled up in a small pile of sweeping. Check all around the snake, no coins, told the snake, "your out a little early ain't you", twirled the container back over him carefully and left. No finds since the last post.
 

Lost, if that was a Black Racer snake you should have grabbed it. Farmers would pay a good fee for one of those varmint killing machines :tongue3: You may have just tossed some money away :tongue3:
 

Walked around the grocery store and car wash today. Got 36 cents. Nickel at car wash, and the rest in parking lot of store and around the pop machines. Year total 5.49
 

Just returned from annual 3 week vacation in south Fla., and had 1 real interesting day at the beach with no detector or sand scoop, just the eyes.

The day's finds incl. ; 4 mem. cents, two dive masks, 1 swim goggles, 2 snorkels, 1 corroded timex watch, 2 GI Joe action figures, numerous pieces of tackle, and many shells. Not all of the finds were in good shape, but the pile impressed my wife when I placed on the ground in front of her.
 

Last night 1 quarter, and 5 cents.

Hope to do better tonight with better sites :tongue3:

YTD $38.51
 

jaybirdhgr said:
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thx
sorry being slight OT, but what's a good "medium" to use to clean your typical ground/dirty coins?
Now on topic - I will give out my weekly honey holes (car wash/cleaning facilities, grocery lots, register lanes etc) founding:

$.22
 

hokielegend said:
thx
sorry being slight OT, but what's a good "medium" to use to clean your typical ground/dirty coins?
Now on topic - I will give out my weekly honey holes (car wash/cleaning facilities, grocery lots, register lanes etc) founding:

$.22
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I bought some rocks for this purpose, but they are basically small rocks that could be used for aquariums I'm sure.
 

April 1

- 1979-D dime

Total for the year: $18.63 (including $0.10 face in 90% silver), £0.20, €0.01, and 1 AED
 

hokielegend said:
thx
sorry being slight OT, but what's a good "medium" to use to clean your typical ground/dirty coins?
Now on topic - I will give out my weekly honey holes (car wash/cleaning facilities, grocery lots, register lanes etc) founding:

$.22
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I use a 2-3 hands full of small rocks from a fish tank and add some water and a few drops of dish washing liquid. Run the machine for 2-3 hours and they come out looking much better. I run pennies separately but I don't know that you have to do that.
 

We don't clean most of ours we just spend them. But when I do I have a coffee can in the wheel of my lawnmower with some sand and pebbles from the curb. The coffee can is slick on the inside so you need to line it with an old intertube or something.
 

2 nights and not much 1 quarter, 8 cents.. There's always next week :tongue3:

YTD $38.84
 

jaybirdhgr said:
I use a 2-3 hands full of small rocks from a fish tank and add some water and a few drops of dish washing liquid. Run the machine for 2-3 hours and they come out looking much better. I run pennies separately but I don't know that you have to do that.
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You have to run cents separately. A couple nickels got mixed with my cents, and they turned pink.
 

April 4

- 1983 cent
- 1995 cent
- 2012 cent
- 1997-D quarter

Total for the year: $18.91 (including $0.10 face in 90% silver), £0.20, €0.01, and 1 AED
 

Found a dime yesterday in front of a garage. $5.59 for the year.
 

April 8

- 1979 cent
- 1990 cent
- 1999? cent (The last digit looks like a 9, but I'm not sure)
- 2006 cent

Total for the year: $18.95 (including $0.10 face in 90% silver), £0.20, €0.01, and 1 AED
 

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