Parking lot finds

pocketpiececommems · September 18, 2015 1:48AM

Not much detecting going on here as I've been doing a lot of subbing. I've stopped by the High School on the way home and walked the student parking lot three times and found $1.86 in change. No bills yet but it does happen there at times.

WhiteTornado · September 18, 2015 3:58AM

The other day I was walking through the local elementary school parking lot and found part of a keychain with a beetle encased in it. Sort of like this one, except it was a brown bug:

johnny9434 · September 18, 2015 4:20AM

i got .63 cents in the last 2 days. i wont argue with extra coffee money

pcgs69 · September 19, 2015 3:54AM

That's better than most of my days detecting. Plus way less stress on the knees (I promise I'll get those knee pads sooner than later!). I found a quarter at my work's parking lot the other day. It went into the food fund jar for snacks.

pcgs69 · September 19, 2015 4:00AM

this will probably end up being posted 5 times... system is glitching

That's better than most of my days detecting. Plus way less stress on the knees (I promise I'll get those knee pads sooner than later!). I found a quarter at my work's parking lot the other day. It went into the food fund jar for snacks.

TigersFan2 · September 19, 2015 7:22AM

At the beginning of August, I started exercising by doing a 1.5 mile walk around the neighborhood. On my first day I found a $20 bill.

PRECIOUSMENTAL · September 19, 2015 7:50AM

Had to hand over my biggest haul....
Mid 1960's, I lived next to the Catholic school I attended, grade 3 maybe.
There was always a large carnival mid summer, SO, I had the brilliant idea of getting up very early, right before the sun rose, and look for lost change, etc.
Boy, I found a lot!
It was a dream come true, until I looked up and the Priest asked me what I was doing there so early.......
He thanked me for being honest and collecting and protecting 'The Lord's Money from dishonest people.'
I didn't dare ask him for a finders fee!
I did learn a valuable lesson, since then, anything I find, and extra that I have, goes to a Good Charity.

ricko · September 20, 2015 11:37PM

I find small coins almost every time I hit the market or the mall..... I think sometimes people just toss their cents and nickels.... Cheers, RickO

pocketpiececommems · September 23, 2015 1:30AM

34 cents more from the same lot yesterday.

ricko · September 23, 2015 10:23PM

Only one cent yesterday in the Michael's parking lot....

Cheers, RickO

pocketpiececommems · September 30, 2015 10:30AM

43 cents one day and 32 cents several days later. $2.95 for the month

ricko · September 30, 2015 10:05PM

A nickel and two cents in the market lot yesterday....Cheers, RickO

lordmarcovan · October 2, 2015 7:43AM

This morning in a dirt parking lot adjacent to a local park I found a 1981 cent, a clear glass marble, and what I'm pretty sure is a 500-1,000- year-old piece of Indian pottery.

Not an uncommon find in that area, actually, if you know what you're looking at. It's very plain, unremarkable pottery. At least this piece was. Some would mistake these plainer sherds for rocks, except we don't really have many rocks in the soil here.

This historical marker a short distance away helps explain my find.

ricko · October 2, 2015 11:51PM

Cheap lots around here....only 2 cents yesterday. Cheers, RickO

johnny9434 · October 3, 2015 1:55AM

cheeze louise, i got nothing today

pocketpiececommems · October 3, 2015 12:21PM

Went by that high school again today and took a ten minute walk and found 32 cents.

PRECIOUSMENTAL · October 4, 2015 5:06AM

1946 LWC, very sharp strike.
At a gas station while putting air in my tires.

ricko · October 4, 2015 5:58AM

Dime and three zincolns today.... dime at gas station, zincolns at grocery parking lot....Cheers, RickO

milbroco · October 14, 2015 10:57AM

Not really coins...............but yesterday in a parking lot I found a book of stamps. One stamp was missing. Now to mail some bills...............

pocketpiececommems · October 14, 2015 2:35PM

That's just about like finding a pile of 49 cent half dollars

ricko · October 14, 2015 10:55PM

Good one PPC.....Cheers, RickO

lordmarcovan · October 15, 2015 2:29PM

Found a live baby rattlesnake out front of the hotel the other night. Does that count?

ricko · October 15, 2015 10:42PM

Zero finds in parking lots the last week.... weird. What did you do with the baby rattler LordM??
Cheers, RickO

WhiteTornado · October 16, 2015 3:15AM

Found a dime within the past week.

The local grocery store moved their CoinStar machine from its nice convenient location near the front door to a spot near the end of the checkout lanes. Total bummer

. Now, unless I'm checking out in one of the last couple of full-service lanes (which aren't usually open anyway), I have to make a special trip after checkout back toward that spot to even see if there are any goodies in the reject bin. Not nearly as covert an operation as it used to be. I did manage to walk over there once this week, nothing in the slot. I don't imagine I'll be going by it nearly as often.

johnny9434 · October 16, 2015 4:24AM

got nothing this week

. move on

lordmarcovan · October 16, 2015 2:15PM

<< <i>What did you do with the baby rattler LordM?? >>

Let him slither off into the ivy. He went his way and I went mine!

ricko · October 16, 2015 11:33PM

SHAZAM!!! Yesterday a $20 bill in the Sam's club parking lot..... no coins though... Cheers, RickO

pcgs69 · October 17, 2015 11:10AM

Wow, that's a great pickup! Pretty healthy bill right there. No $1 bills for you!

I found a small piece of wire in the parking lot I went detecting near today. Not quite on par with your find.

pocketpiececommems · October 17, 2015 12:57PM

WTG ricko. When you see green like that laying on the ground it just doesn't look right but looks pretty good in your hand.

ricko · October 17, 2015 11:20PM

Yep... it was kind of crumpled.... like bills in my pocket used to look during my party days... Cheers, RickO

pocketpiececommems · November 22, 2015 10:56PM

I subbed last Thursday so I walked the HS parking lot on the way home and picked up 44 cents. Friday I got the oil in the car changed and walked a city parking lot and found 63 cents. On a Saturday morning walk I found 2 quarters on the highway shoulder. Also found an almost new Stanley hammer on a morning walk.

ricko · November 23, 2015 12:17AM

Been real slow since the $20 find....not that I am complaining.... have to go shopping

today, so maybe something will turn up...Cheers, RickO

pocketpiececommems · November 24, 2015 9:00AM

I walked that same city parking lot today and found another 55 cents 3 dimes, 1 nickel and 20 pennies. Then I went to detect and the coil shot craps.. Fortunately the metal detecting shop is a bit over an hour away and I was able to get a new one.

pcgs69 · November 24, 2015 9:58AM

the other day there was a cent in the parking lot of where I worked.

That's about it for me.

WhiteTornado · December 1, 2015 12:09AM

Found a dime on the floor of the break room at work. It felt like getting a raise!

pocketpiececommems · December 1, 2015 12:39AM

Just finished a 3 mile walk and found a dollar bill

pocketpiececommems · December 19, 2015 11:39AM

I got to push the cart while grocery shopping with the wife. Found 3 dimes and 2 pennies. Also during the week I found penny throws of 8 & 10. I guess they didn't need it for Christmas.

pcgs69 · December 20, 2015 12:30PM

I found $1 bill at Subway a couple weeks ago.

ricko · December 22, 2015 11:46PM

Twenty two cents in the coinstar reject bin... nothing significant, no idea why the two cents

and two dimes were rejected. Cheers, RickO

pocketpiececommems · December 24, 2015 12:04PM

I checked the Coinstar a Walmart yesterday and found 17 sticky Lincolns and a dime and a nickel. My all time total for Coinstar has been a whopping 3 cents so I guess I really out did myself this time.

pocketpiececommems · December 30, 2015 1:57PM

Pulled into a parking spot at Best Buy and looked out the window and there laying in a puddle of water was a five dollar bill. It dried well??

pocketpiececommems · January 1, 2016 6:37AM

My first parking lot find for 2016 was a quarter frozen to the pavement but I did kick it loose??

pocketpiececommems · January 12, 2016 11:43AM

We've had either rain, snow or frozen ground since Christmas so it's a good thing people loose money on the pavement so I can have something to eyeball detect. Last Thursday I found my first dollar bill of the year laying in the street also found 2 dimes and 2 pennies on that walk plus 8 pennies from a Coinstar. Yesterday another dollar bill and 2 pennies. I wonder how much you could find at Quick Trip and walked the parking lot on each break?

Dockwalliper · January 13, 2016 4:54AM

Took my Grandson to the supermarket and between the CoinStar and the self checkout he walked away with almost $3.

ricko · January 14, 2016 12:16AM

Coinstar has been empty the last week or so....and zero in the parking lot... Cheers, RickO

ricko · January 17, 2016 3:40AM

Everything counts..... 27 cents in the coinstar yesterday and two nickels in Sam's parking lot.

Cheers, RickO

pocketpiececommems · January 17, 2016 5:00AM

Some people don't think that pennies count, or any other change for that matter, because they are to lazy to pic it up. Pennies add up. I found 2,041 detecting last year. That adds up to $20+

ricko · January 18, 2016 11:18PM

I actually once found a $100 bill... it was many years ago, in a bar on the seedy side of town

when I was in the Navy... was just under the pool table and had been stepped on many times...

picked it up and kept it..... a windfall in those days.... Cheers, RickO

Dockwalliper · January 19, 2016 10:27AM

83 cents in the CoinStar today.

ricko · January 19, 2016 10:59PM

Wow...nice haul for the reject bin.... never found that much at once.... Cheers, RickO

ricko · January 25, 2016 1:19AM

It cannot be yours, you are not old enough..... found it before you were born...

Cheers, RickO

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