Ground Finds

[spartacus53]

One wheat cent, 1 memorial and one of the "new" design pennies. And while detecting, a gold coin on top of the ground I spotted before the machine did. That was today. For the first 5 minutes I thought it was a fake.

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[lost]

Back in the game. Scored a floor found dime in my 7-11. While paying for my coffee I found a dollar bill laying among the magazines in front of the registers. This is the second time I've found a bill mixed in with the magazines. Same store. I almost racked in the dime and penny laying beside the register. But didn't. That brings me up to a buck .59.

 

[spartacus53]

Lost Last night's finds for me was bupkis I think you're up $1.10 at this point

 

[sagittarius98]

January 13

- 1983 cent

Total for the year: $0.45

 

[sagittarius98]

January 14

- 1984 cent
- 1991 cent
- 2004-P nickel
- 1978 dime
- 2004 UK 20 pence

and an Angel token

Total for the year: $0.62 and £0.20

 

[sagittarius98]

January 16

- 1988 cent

Total for the year: $0.63 and £0.20

 

[sagittarius98]

January 17

- 1968-D cent
- 2x 1986 cent
- 2x 1989 cent
- 1990 cent (one must have been unsettled by yesterday's rainstorm, completely encrusted)
- 1993 cent
- 1996 cent
- 1997 cent
- 1999 cent
- 2001 cent
- 2x 2011 cent
- 1970-D nickel
- 1999-P nickel
- 2001-P nickel
- 2006-P nickel
- 2011-P nickel
- 2012-P nickel
- 1965 dime
- 2000-P dime
- 2004-P dime
- 2008-P dime
- 2x 1996-P quarter
- 2006-P quarter (Colorado)

Total for the year: $2.30 and £0.20

 

[lost]

Good Grief sag98. Were you hunting under some school football bleachers? I'm adding two more dimes found in the McDonald's drive thru. Up to $1.79. Man, it's tough out there.

 

[sagittarius98]

Good Grief sag98. Were you hunting under some school football bleachers?

I found the encrusted cent and 4 nickels at school. The 4 nickels were inside and the cent on the mud in front of the school. The rest I found looking under the shelves of a local store that has been there since 1875 and is now closing. I will look under some more shelves today too, but I have heard something that they have shut their doors down already. I just looked at the ones closest to the register yesterday. I may do the football bleachers thing soon, but the problem is that is like "drug headquarters" for our school.

 

[hokielegend]

Sag-Are these metal detecting find? Seem insane... LOL

Questions - would coins around a coinstar (either ground or counter) constitute as "ground" find?
Wishes this forum is more predomininate located (under CRH?) so we would get more eyeballs.

 

[lost]

Under shelves. Brilliant. I eyeball the obvious Under Shelves and store counters. Make a few finds. But, thinking, a short rod, or wood stick with a maybe 4" L shaped end would let one get to the very back of those floor shelves and rake out the coins the sweepers don't get. Wonder how long I could do that before attracting the store managers attention? You've given me some new ideas.

Bleacher finds are not a good as they sound. My best find was a ladies purse. Full of ID. A phone call and a short drive and I handed the purse to her on her front porch. It had been missing for weeks. She already replaced her credit cards. Refused an unspecified reward offer and settled for a hand shake.

 

[sagittarius98]

Questions - would coins around a coinstar (either ground or counter) constitute as "ground" find?

They are, since it is free money found. If I found a 20 dollar bill in an ATM (got one last year), I would still count it as a ground find, since it is free money found. If my friend gave me a dollar, that would not qualify here.

January 18

- 2005-P nickel (Ocean in View)

Total for the year: $2.35 and £0.20


I didn't get to the store since a normal 20 minute drive became 3 hours in traffic, as 3 lanes were closed on a major interstate. Apparently someone committed suicide by running on to the highway. I tried doing the drive thru thing, but the closest McDonalds is in a low-income, African-American community where there are like 500 people in line every time. Also, yesterday, my mom found 3 dollar coins. I got them in exchange for 3 dollar bills. They were a 2007-P Thomas Jefferson, a 2008-P Sacagawea, and a 2010-P Great Law of Peace.

 

[lost]

Give me your mom's e-mail address. From now on I want her checking with my buy it now prices before handing change over to you. Sheeezzz...

 

[sagittarius98]

January 23

- 1990-P nickel

Total for the year: $2.40 and £0.20

The encrusted "1989 cent" turned out to be a 1990.

 

[sagittarius98]

January 24

- 1962-D cent
- 2000 cent


Total for the year: $2.42 and £0.20

 

[sagittarius98]

January 25

- 1996 cent
- 1991-P nickel
- 2007-P dime
- 2008-P dime

Total for the year: $2.68 and £0.20

 

[lost]

No new finds. Posting just to let you and Spart know I'm still in the hunt. Wow, it's so cold outside I almost drove my pickup to the mail box today. Got lots of shopping tomorrow. I'll be walking with my head down. My Mall usually produces something.

 

[sagittarius98]

Posting just to let you and Spart know I'm still in the hunt.

Spart is banned so I know nothing about him. The streak continues.


January 26

- 1980 cent
- 1986-D cent
- 1992-D cent
- 199? cent
- 2007 cent
- 2004-P nickel (Louisiana Purchase)
- 2010-P nickel
- 2008-P dime (which I traded for a dime in a donation box that looked silver and turned out to be a 1965)


Total for the year: $2.93 and £0.20

 

[lost]

sag98...My good friend, I can't compete with you. You are incredible. Today I've been all over a Super Walmart, a Super Target, up and down a small indoor mall with a food court that "always" produces some dropped change. Nothing. Not even the 7-11 and it's parking lot on my way home. I even walked over to the 7-11 side yard and searched for wind blown bills. I've scored good there in the past. Not today. If you guys would allow me to coin search my wife's car floor boards, glove box and center console box, I'll bet I could jump into the hundred dollar range in just a few minutes.

Our main man Spart is Banned. Say it isn't so. I'll keep hunting.

 

[sagittarius98]

Our main man Spart is Banned. Say it isn't so. I'll keep hunting.

Check his avatar. He is. PM TreasureHunter about why.