Hunting the suburb curb strip payed off for the effort.:detecting:

[Roscue2]

We moved from TN to central CA in june 2010 and I took a 10 month mding break and finally got back into hunting in april 2011. Been lurking and posting on others threads, but haven't posted an md post since 2010.

Anyway, here we go. I will start off by saying that for any of you that live or have lived recently in a CA city you know that in CA the homebuilders love building houses on .10 acre lots. Been like this for quite some time I guess. Anyway, we bought a house in a neighborhood like this on .17 acres. So yesturday, having already hunted the front and back yard I was trying to think of another place nearby to hunt. There was the school about 1/2 mile away, but it was locked up and only open for the front parking lot and front grass area. I will give that a shot another day I told myself. There is the park that is a 2 minute walk away. NAAAHH, last time I hunted the totlot there I only found 30 cents. Another day. HMMMMMM. Where to hunt?

Oh, I know!! There is the curb strip in front of my house! So I got the 250 and got to work on a 5 foot by 15 foot section and quickly started pulling coins, as well as beer bottle tops and pull taps. Finished this section in 20 minutes with a good amount of clad considering the size of the area, and a game token.

Then I hit the 5 foot by 35 foot section on the other side of the drive way. First signal, chucky cheese token at 2 inches. Then another. And another. ended up with five in 2 sq feet. I am gonna make it rain game tokens! I told myself. After the token spill I found some more clad and ended the hunt with what could be a small piece of unmarked silver. It sure has the weight, so heres hoping.

Ended up with $1.32 in clad, 6 game tokens, a tool piece, and the possible piece of silver in about 1 hr. Sorry, no pics this time.

So, the main point of this post is to point out that even these newer curb strips can produce. In my case the curb strip was from 1996. I read all the time of hunters hitting the older curb strips, which makes me wonder how many bother to hit newer curb strips in their area. Sure, you probably won't get older coins, but if you have them at your disposal, hunt em up! After all, you never know what treasures lie beneath until you put the coil over dirt.

HH to all and Happy New Years!

 

[BigCatDaddy]

I've found quite a few goodies hunting those strips. I also look for parking lots with grass medians in them, good source of loot. I always wear an orange safety vest when hunting those sidewalk strips, makes people think you are working and they will leave you alone, not to mention it might save you from getting run over!!

 

[Hank68]

Curbs are often overlooked , I found a chucky cheese token the last hunt I was on those things are everywhere! Glad you got out to hunt, HHH

 

[maineman1]

OMG!!! i love curbs ive found hundreds of coins in the curbs going back to 1911 an silver dime found two 1911 wheat about five ft apart doing curbs i find so many people miss the gold mine of coins. I hit a small town in northern penn. Milford an stopped at a sidewalk just out of the blue an hit for 35 coins an 7 wheat pennies yup curbs is great place to hit!!!