DiggingThePNW
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Thanks Thebigd81. Wish I was located out by you. Really cool history there and the ability to find it as well.
Back to back barber weekends while stripping. Hammered coin? Plus some relics
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Thanks Thebigd81. Wish I was located out by you. Really cool history there and the ability to find it as well.
100% sure it is a real one, very worn and thin looking at the photograph.
Second picture you can see the small indentation in the middle of the Jetton, this is a clear sign it is genuine.
The indentation was there to stop people trying to pass them off as coins.
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DiggingThePNW
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Mine says copy on it.
kaufenanger
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Congrats on the barber and rosie, and how effective would you say curb stripping has been for you in terms of finding old silver.
DiggingThePNW
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Well I have found 6 of my nine in the strips. I wasn’t focusing on any metal detecting goals tell recently. So I switched from going to old very rural abandon homesites and farms as well as a couple ccc camps to curbs. I set myself recently a few goals. FTY
25 Silver coins. (9)
55 Wheats (14)
15 IHPs (2)
5 Non bling Rings (1)
1 Necklace (0)
10 Tokens (1)
Specific coins
Silver quarter
Silver dollar
To be honest I am tired of fighting the brush and undergrowth here in Washington especially spring, summer and fall. So it is going to be curb strips, private home permissions and 1 seeded hunt I may go to. I was considering getting a go pro to document this. Well the newest one I have a older one. But until recently I wasn’t finding much but may consider it if these strips keep paying off. Highly doubt many people are interested in watching though lol. During the week I will hit random spots on way home from work but save the strips for weekends and make the trek into towns on the I5 corridor hopefully I can achieve my goals we shall see.
25 Silver coins. (9)
55 Wheats (14)
15 IHPs (2)
5 Non bling Rings (1)
1 Necklace (0)
10 Tokens (1)
Specific coins
Silver quarter
Silver dollar
To be honest I am tired of fighting the brush and undergrowth here in Washington especially spring, summer and fall. So it is going to be curb strips, private home permissions and 1 seeded hunt I may go to. I was considering getting a go pro to document this. Well the newest one I have a older one. But until recently I wasn’t finding much but may consider it if these strips keep paying off. Highly doubt many people are interested in watching though lol. During the week I will hit random spots on way home from work but save the strips for weekends and make the trek into towns on the I5 corridor hopefully I can achieve my goals we shall see.
DiggingThePNW
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So to answer VERY effective for me personally so far.
DiggingThePNW
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I initially got into this late 2018 randomly. I was trying to locate old homes and logging sites I was reading about. It wasn’t until I got my first silver that it changed.
That coin took me about two years to achieve I had found one Buffalo but wasn’t counting that as a silver. I was scared to ask for permission or go where there were people at or even around. That coin changed it. Honestly. Maybe it is cause I started with that seated instead of a Rosie but not sure. I also was not even carrying water to clean any coins at that point and scratched while we wiped it off as well as hit it with my anaconda shovel. I have a video but tons of f bombs in it. It floored me and my buddy we had been detecting there and found lots of stuff but nothing really except a 1888 ihp at that point.
I no longer will hide. I want to find more and more. Especially coins at this point. I am researching as much for the more populated areas if not more so we will see if it will pay off. Fingers crossed
Neither of those coins were found in populated areas. Old homesite that is no more just a field. And woods and a few old foundations
That coin took me about two years to achieve I had found one Buffalo but wasn’t counting that as a silver. I was scared to ask for permission or go where there were people at or even around. That coin changed it. Honestly. Maybe it is cause I started with that seated instead of a Rosie but not sure. I also was not even carrying water to clean any coins at that point and scratched while we wiped it off as well as hit it with my anaconda shovel. I have a video but tons of f bombs in it. It floored me and my buddy we had been detecting there and found lots of stuff but nothing really except a 1888 ihp at that point.
I no longer will hide. I want to find more and more. Especially coins at this point. I am researching as much for the more populated areas if not more so we will see if it will pay off. Fingers crossed
Neither of those coins were found in populated areas. Old homesite that is no more just a field. And woods and a few old foundations
DiggingThePNW
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The reason in all reality I was digging so much iron was these people at these locations had little to no money. But once I hit that find nails and logging relics was a thing of the past.
Wolf-Dog
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Congrats on silver coins, Jed! 
DiggingThePNW
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Congrats on silver coins, Jed!
Thanks Wolf-Dog
DiggingThePNW
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Thanks ugadigger
FreeBirdTim
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Yup, I thought he was talking about something completely different!
I used to do a lot of stripping in the 1970's. They called it streaking back then. Was a lot of fun until one time I fell and got road rash in a very bad spot. That was the end of my streaking days...
DiggingThePNW
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Were you streaming while bike riding?
FreeBirdTim
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Nope, we were streaking through the tarred parking lot at our school. Very painful, but we all got away.
DiggingThePNW
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That was hot as balls I bet.
