tommyboy72
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- Aug 7, 2008
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- Minelab Explorer SE, Minelab Excalibur II, Whites Prizm IV & Garrett Pro-Pointer
Hi, I went to what used to be a 6 or 7 stall car wash nearby. the car wash itself was torn down 4-5 years ago and I was driving by this the concrete lot where it used to be and I suddenly remembered that when the drains in the floor would become clogged with mud/dirt/etc. that they would clean out the drains that were in the bottom of each stall, and the owner would have the old guy that worked for him shovel everything into a wheel barrow and dump the mud and gunk onto this one spot and spread it out. Well, I also remembered in all the years that I used that car wash before it was torn down that many times when I was getting change out of my pocket to put in the coin thing on the wall and I would drop a quarter or two or some other piece of change in my pocket and because the floor of a car wash is usually sloped toward the long grate/dirt-trap thing in the middle guess where any change that was dropped would roll to!!! you guessed it!!!! anyway to make a long story short, I went there today and detected for about an hour or so and found a ton of 1970's-early 2000's era quarters,dimes,nickels, pennies, etc. and to top it all off these were all in an area about 4 feet long by 2-3 feet wide(about the size of ONE wheelbarrow dump!!!!). I actually stopped using my metal detector and just broke open the ground and used my pinpointer to find the coins!!! I only went down a couple of inches so I'm hoping that tomorrow if I go deeper I might find some silver or maybe at least some wheaties!!!! I would have found more, but it started raining and I had to quit. needless to say, I will be back tomorrow!!! I remember they used to clean those drains a couple of different times over the summer depending on how often they would get clogged up, and that car wash was operating for well over 25 years!!!!! needless to say I think there is a ton more change still to be found. what's really great about it is I am the only person allowed to metal detect there!!! it is all private property and seeing as how I live about a block from it and I keep an eye on things for the property owner, they let me detect it.
p.s. I also found this U.S. Grant coin it is a little bigger than a quarter any help on it would be great.
p.s. I also found this U.S. Grant coin it is a little bigger than a quarter any help on it would be great.
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