good day at parking strips

jas314 · Sep 17, 2011

Decided to go hit some parking strips I had already done about 5 yrs ago or so looks like I left some keepers there :tongue3:

s.c.shooter · Sep 17, 2011

Always a great place to do a little coinshooting!

Georges Minelab Safari · Sep 17, 2011

Nice finds.

Roland58 · Sep 17, 2011

Very nice saves. Hate to ask the dumb questions, but, what is a parking strip? Heard of parking lots, parking places, etc. but, never strips.

ANTIQUARIAN · Sep 17, 2011

Congrats on your coin finds today jas! :icon_thumright:

Is the religious icon silver? :icon_scratch:

I'd love to find an IH here someday!

Dave

Theakiki · Sep 18, 2011

Roland58 said:
Very nice saves. Hate to ask the dumb questions, but, what is a parking strip? Heard of parking lots, parking places, etc. but, never strips.

Thanks for asking.

jas314 · Sep 18, 2011

Roland58 said:
Very nice saves. Hate to ask the dumb questions, but, what is a parking strip? Heard of parking lots, parking places, etc. but, never strips.

I guess the best way to describe it is a grass median that runs down the center of the road. It used to be a trolly line with stops all along it, but now its just a grass strip

ANTIQUARIAN said:
Congrats on your coin finds today jas!

Is the religious icon silver?

I'd love to find an IH here someday!

Dave

Im not sure if its silver or not

I looked for silver markings the only marking it had is "italy", but the way it came out of the ground. I would say its silver.
Im sure you will find an IH eventually you do pretty well for US coins up there.

s.c.shooter said:
Always a great place to do a little coinshooting!

They are just wish we had more of them here. Signals are pretty sparse there now, but no place is ever hunted out

Georges Minelab Safari said:
Nice finds.

Thanks

CoilFisher · Sep 18, 2011

Those are hot! Nice work!

sniffer · Sep 18, 2011

most of the stuff I've found that said Italy on it, was silver

XPress2 · Sep 18, 2011

It looks like you got some really nice coins there... Congratulations.

scaupus · Sep 18, 2011

Very nice. Amazing how good those pennies look, down here they deteriorate more. And your buffalo nickel has a date. If I found that silver fob or medal thing down here, I'd be sure it's silver; silver holds up well, while silverplate and white base metal stuff deteriorate fast in our lawn soil.

jas314 · Sep 19, 2011

CoilFisher said:
Those are hot! Nice work!

Thanks

Sniffer said:
most of the stuff I've found that said Italy on it, was silver

Good to know :thumbsup:

XPress2 said:
It looks like you got some really nice coins there... Congratulations.

Thank you

scaupus said:
Very nice. Amazing how good those pennies look, down here they deteriorate more. And your buffalo nickel has a date. If I found that silver fob or medal thing down here, I'd be sure it's silver; silver holds up well, while silverplate and white base metal stuff deteriorate fast in our lawn soil.

Kinda depends on where you dig them around here. Ive had some that were pretty bad, but most fair well. Yeah buffalo nickels after they were in circulation for quite awhile tended to lose their dates, but personally I love finding nickels. They rank right up there with a silver coin for me. Im sure that neckless item is silver. Most other metals besides silver or gold would have discolored in some way if they had been there for any length of time, and all I did to clean that is run it under the faucet, which is all I do with most coins as well. Im kinda paranoid about that sorta thing lol :laughing7: