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coppertop5150
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United States
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 Posted 07/29/2010 7:54 pm
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Well my lil nephew just got a metal detector this past weekend.
I gave him some advice . I took him to a part of town where the houses are built in the pre 1930's some historic 1880 and 1890's we found a abandon old home that looks like its not been lived in for a long time.with a utilitiy shed out back. This was a decent area of town back in the day . But the shipping port got moved to another area of tampa so this area is called old port tampa. I checked the property records the house is owned by someone out of state and was built in 1911
i told him where do you loose coins lets think about it?
I figured people pull keys out of their pockets to get in the their house. Coins prob hit the front steps and roll in the yard.
Back in the day people used to hang clothes out to dry so lets check the back yard for some .
people pull out keys getting in and out of their cars so lets check what looked like a grassy over grown parking area.
we discovered it hard to detect in high grown weeds and grass.
so far we found some nails, bottle caps, alum cans shreds a few 1940's pennies corroded barley readable.
i think we will searhc it again in the winter when the grass dies and the city or someone mows the yard.
any advice ?
we searched a park undr the swings, benches and monkey bars . Found lots of change but nothing just 60
s 70's and newer nickles ,dimes,quaters,broken trinkets and such.chances are its prob been searched alot of times.
my next guess is a old lot with some brick house supports on them and pieces of a fireplace the house is next to two old houses from the early 1900's maybe search it in the winter agian.
in florida the weeds are such a pain
any opinions.
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big777bill
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United States
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Posted 07/29/2010 8:31 pm
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Ask the old timers in your area where they think good places to search would be. I'm sure they would have plenty of ideas
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pls
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United States
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Posted 07/29/2010 10:17 pm
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You're on the right track. I've found a lot of coins next to curbside parking spots, too, and I'm beginning to realize that a lot of coins roll out of guys' pockets when they stand up to exit their cars.
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wolf-n-wa
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United States
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Posted 08/05/2010 10:35 pm
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You got the right idea. Keep at it. If your finding 1940's cents you should start findin old silver. Cents were more plentiful so were lost more than the silver coinage. WOLF
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Rob ert
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United States
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Posted 08/05/2010 11:53 pm
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Just look for the biggest tree around, detect under that. I don't know if it's the kids climbing them and losing their coins, or people just sitting under them for shade while the coins roll out of their pockets either way I've always had good luck under large trees. Weeds and grass shouldn't grow too tall under a big ol tree.
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nybird
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United States
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Posted 08/08/2010 2:30 pm
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Believe it or not old elevator shafts have some intresting stull in them, I have found old coins and matchbooks in some old NYC elevator shafts. A little hard to get into though without training.
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