More Good Finds From the Median Strip in S.F.!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Went back today and hunted the median strip in San Francisco and pulled out my 59th and 60th silver coins from this area! Also dug up this strange buffalo nickel that has 4 copper pennies stuck to it! They are probably wheat pennies? Also dug 11 wheaties and about $ 8.00 in clad. Also dug up a neat token too!

 

[toddsumm1]

Very nice indeed! Cool stack of coins

 

[Giant056]

Great bunch of finds

 

[heepiepow]

Cool finds! What a nice productive spot. What is holding the Buffalo and pennies together? With that one penny being warped maybe they partially melted into each other from a fire or something?

I also really like that (masonic?) pin, and that dogtag-shaped Navy Surplus thing.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I have no idea why the 5 coins are stuck together. I've been metal detecting for 27 years and I've never dug up anything like this! Perhaps they fussed themselves together after being stacked on top of each other for the last 70 years or so?

 

[heepiepow]

I have no idea why the 5 coins are stuck together. I've been metal detecting for 27 years and I've never dug up anything like this! Perhaps they fussed themselves together after being stacked on top of each other for the last 70 years or so?

Could be! Different soil and other stuff does way different things to coins. The only things I've found that were also fused like that were many coins found in an Altoids tin that had been buried in a sandy tot lot for around 5 years. Apparently it was the rust from the tin leaking onto and inbetween the coins (and maybe reacting with their surface) that caused the fusing.

Btw, your fused unit is way older than mine, but I hope you also don't break them apart! It's really neat and unusual being fused like that!

How long have you been hunting that area? Looks pretty big!

 

[DaleGM]

awesome site Cool Hand, those type of virgin grounds are few and far apart these days. just got back From Frisco for a days adventure at the wharf and a bowl of clam chowder. congrats on the 60 silver so far and nice pics of the Bay

 

[matt092079]

It looks like they have been melded together with tar! That's a neat find though.

 

[Silver Slayer]

Nice hunt

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Could be! Different soil and other stuff does way different things to coins. The only things I've found that were also fused like that were many coins found in an Altoids tin that had been buried in a sandy tot lot for around 5 years. Apparently it was the rust from the tin leaking onto and inbetween the coins (and maybe reacting with their surface) that caused the fusing.

Btw, your fused unit is way older than mine, but I hope you also don't break them apart! It's really neat and unusual being fused like that!

How long have you been hunting that area? Looks pretty big!

I'm going to keep them the way they are and add them to my curio cabinet collection. I started hunting this area back in October 2011, been hitting it off and on since. The amount of trash in this strip has amounted to probably 100 pounds after the last 8 months worth of hunting! Enough copper and brass scrap money to fill a gas tank! Sometimes I invite some of my hunting buddies, but I'm basically the only guy hunting this area! My best silver coin day there was a 9 silver day!

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[pl8man]

Sweet find Mike !
Glen

 

[turf_aholic]

Nice going at the strip. Good on ya for wading thru the trash.
Like the blue skies over SF... Wished there were more of those!
Peter

 

[jewelerguy]

cool finds. interesting stack of coins. it would be killing me to keep them together and not know what they are

 

[Gunrunner61]

Really cool finds I really like the Masonic Item, Is it a buckle?

 

[coltsfan3028]

I am from terre haute Indiana and new at this. Need some good places to go.

 

[raymond m sciacca]

way to go nice finds your doing grate on the strip ill be going Monday with dick and reed that will be interesting day happy hunting see you soon ray I like coke 00000000000000000000000000000000

 

[Just some Guy]

Sweet Finds Mike,

could those coins get fused together in a fire?

Happy Hunting,

Dan