Thought of a new place to Detect today, and it paid off!!!!!!!

[tommyboy72]

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.

 

[jeff of pa]

WOW Great Idea.

I always knew The Vacuums were profitable
but never thought about the drains.

Congrats & Good Luck !

Jeff

 

[jsu]

Nice haul! Those quarters add up fast. WTG

 

[Saturna]

It never fails to amaze me how much change people manage to lose.





Jay

 

[kdismuke1]

Man you are a great time.

 

[finderzzs]

Nice haul, not to mention the vacuum cleaners. I remember a car wash lot like you describe when I was a kid. The side lot is where they dumped the vacuums. After a rain we'd find all kinds of change just eyeballing. Then after a couple of weeks the Pot was growing like well.. weeds. That was the 70's.

 

[Marc(NB)]

great haul!!

 

[49er]

Unbelievable haul of coin you have there. WTG...

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome job, keep hittin that place hard!!!

 

[maxmoney]

That would have been fun!!!! Great job. keep the picks coming

 

[MichiganRob]

HOLY CLAD BATMAN!!!

That's a lot of scratch my friend

Good Job

HH
MichiganRob

 

[sellig]

Hey Tommyboy,

Why are you not using a sieve for all the pile of sand?
You could make a guiness record of coin find!

Sellig

 

[IAsoldier]

Ca cing, very nice

 

[mistergee]

what a unique and profitable idea...good thing you paid attention back then...by the way as for the president token...check this out...may help..http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,182153.0.html

 

[dex378]

wow!!!!

 

[willie d]

Good thinking and congrats on the haul !

 

[John Deere Digger]

Awsome, you should clean up on the clad there.
JDD

 

[kimsdad]

Nice haul there!!! Keep working it!

Oh, and "hey!" to you down there in Franklin County!

 

[SusanMN]

How fun to dig out all those coins! I have the James Polk president commemorative coin to go with the one you found.

 

[tommyboy72]

I want to thank everyone for the compliments and well wishes.

I am really really getting into this metal detecting stuff!!! Gonna hit the site again tomorrow and see what turns up, all I had today was my digging tool so I was basically just turning over the sparse sod(a little grass has grown over the dump area) and then I was just loosening the underlying soil and then "stirring it" with my pin-pointer. Don't get me wrong, plenty of foil gum wrappers and pop top tabs, etc. but overall not real hard to find the coins. I can't really make this a huge production with screens and stuff, even though I have permission to hunt it, I can't tear it all up. I will get it all 10-50 coins at a time, maybe more and maybe less. like I said it is only a block or so from my home.