AirmetTango
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After commiserating with markinswpa over a lack of silver finds in one of his threads on Monday morning (Killin' On Tokens thread), I decided to hit some curbstrips. Looking for a change of scenery, I scouted a nearby town on Google Earth, and I settled on what I figured would be a long-shot - a strip on a cobblestoned street, directly across from an old park. I figured the park had to be pounded to death over the last 3 or 4 decades, so I imagined the curbstrip across the way couldn't be much different. But I figured it was worth a try, and if it didn't work out, I'd just move on to a more "out of the way" curbstrip.
It was a fairly wide strip, requiring three passes to get full coverage even with the stock coil on the EQ8. I ran down the length of the sidewalk side of the strip first, and after the first half hour, I had some clad but nothing of real interest. I actually decided to move to a new area, but since my car was parked a short distance behind me now, I figured I may as well hunt my way back to the car along the curb side of the strip.
I didn't get more than 10' back toward the car, when I hit an odd ball 22-23 signal, almost right up against the curb. Usually a trash number, but it indicated deeper than the clad, so my curiosity was peeked. I was flat out amazed to pop an 1888 Indian out of the hole! I've never had an Indian ring that high - not sure what was up with that, but I sure had a renewed interest in this unlikely little curbstrip!
Over the next hour, things got markedly better compared to the first half hour - two Wheaties came next, then a 1946 Rosie with a "no doubt about it" solid high tone came up near a tree from about 4-5" down. Not five feet away, I got another unquestionable coin high tone - definitely either a dime or copper penny. I was elated to see shiny again at about the same depth, this time a 1944 Merc! And I was equally amused that I now had a double silver day just hours after bemoaning my lack of silver finds this year! I gotta complain about too few silvers more often!! A third Wheatie soon followed (dates were 1921, 1936, and 1940). Interestingly, all of these "keepers" were in a short 100' section of the curbstrip, and all were on the street side of the strip. Just makes me wonder if this particular section just kept getting skipped for some reason - the Indian had oddball numbers, but the other coins were all solid, certain signals. Anyway, I continued hunting for another hour or so, and just netted more clad, totalling $1.04 for the day.
It was a fairly wide strip, requiring three passes to get full coverage even with the stock coil on the EQ8. I ran down the length of the sidewalk side of the strip first, and after the first half hour, I had some clad but nothing of real interest. I actually decided to move to a new area, but since my car was parked a short distance behind me now, I figured I may as well hunt my way back to the car along the curb side of the strip.
I didn't get more than 10' back toward the car, when I hit an odd ball 22-23 signal, almost right up against the curb. Usually a trash number, but it indicated deeper than the clad, so my curiosity was peeked. I was flat out amazed to pop an 1888 Indian out of the hole! I've never had an Indian ring that high - not sure what was up with that, but I sure had a renewed interest in this unlikely little curbstrip!
Over the next hour, things got markedly better compared to the first half hour - two Wheaties came next, then a 1946 Rosie with a "no doubt about it" solid high tone came up near a tree from about 4-5" down. Not five feet away, I got another unquestionable coin high tone - definitely either a dime or copper penny. I was elated to see shiny again at about the same depth, this time a 1944 Merc! And I was equally amused that I now had a double silver day just hours after bemoaning my lack of silver finds this year! I gotta complain about too few silvers more often!! A third Wheatie soon followed (dates were 1921, 1936, and 1940). Interestingly, all of these "keepers" were in a short 100' section of the curbstrip, and all were on the street side of the strip. Just makes me wonder if this particular section just kept getting skipped for some reason - the Indian had oddball numbers, but the other coins were all solid, certain signals. Anyway, I continued hunting for another hour or so, and just netted more clad, totalling $1.04 for the day.
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