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[blowfly1967]

i'm an australian.if i find coins here old or new ,i'll either bank them or sell them.i'm happy,i've found something to keep my hobby going.does'nt clad have any value?i read many posts from america where all that was found,some clad,duh!100 one cents still adds up to dollar.by the way whats a nickel?clad still buys stuff doesn't it ? hh blowfly

 

[Beale]

I do not mind finding clad at all. It does add up and helps pay for batteries.

A Nickle = to 5 cents (pennies), a dime is 10 cents, and a quarter is 25 cents. I guess some folks do not like to dig the modern coins? They are looking for old coins, like silver ones. I hunt mostly schools and parks so i am happy with what I find. To me it is all good, Beale.

 

[I a thr]

Personally I only search for the Old coins. My preference is that I really like the beauty of our old coins plus the only other avenue to acquire them is to buy them. I really enjoy Winter research as it occupies the cold snowy days with my favourite hobby (Detecting). Now I may not find as many coins as the clad searches do but, I have a real good feeling when I dig up a coin that is not common in today's world. To each their own on the type of detecting we do. I guess if everyone looked for the old one's there would be fewer for me to find. LOL! This probably sounds crazy but I love to sorta brag on the old finds and is really difficult to brag on a newer common clad or zinc coin. The other thing is the places I search gives me the opportunity to find a dime that is monetarily worth more than 10 cents.
To each their own, that's what makes the world go round.
Bill

 

[jim tn]

Like Bill, my preference is for the older coins as well. Many of the sites I hunt, however, has both clad and older coins and I for sure don't leave the clad behind. Like trash, newer coins can mask older coins and I would rather pocket the clad then the trash. HH jim tn

 

[Dang]

Now most of our clad stays intact but while in the ground it may become brown, orange, and even black. (They leave the mint looking like silver.) Still spendable but you will get some looks.
Now in either 81 or 82 the feds stopped making copper pennies and started using zinc instead. Zinc does not hold up well in the grounds of my area and I believe start eroding as soon as they hit the ground.
I end up just tossing most zinc in the trash along with the rest of the trash I find cause if not for the TID you wouldn't even know that they were a penny once. And you know....there showing up deep in the
ground these days too!

 

[Furious T]

I prefer to find old coins. Our currency changed in 1966 and our silver coins went west (into the sunset). I love to find the older coins, but (as I said in a post on another forum) if I find $1 and $2 coins, even right dfown to our 1c and 2c (wich are no longer legal tender) I dont poke them back into the ground just because I would prefer something else. They all add up, dont they? HH Sapper

 

[John-Edmonton]

Some people just can't stomach the thought of looking for clad. Each to his own I guess. I have bought many gold goins with mostly pennies in the past, until gold really shot up this past couple of years. Now I have to include my nickels and dimes

And looking for clad?......I just love it! Give me a field full of pennies, and I will get most of them AND usually some rings, silver and gold. If you don't search for it, you aint getting it!

 

[blowfly1967]

i shouldn't have shown my wife your post john-edmonton,now she's into me about why i haven't been keeping score.damn!!

where do you hang your hat furious-t? i'm from cairns.

ta beale and ta to all who responded to my post.

hh hooroo.blowfly.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Here's some clad from one of my better years. Quite a few silvers included. The pile is two feet long, a foot or so wide and a foot deep. Can't recall the count, probably 8-10 thousand. They all rolled up and spent quite well.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

One has to hunt clad when the silver is depleted as it is here. At one time we had five or more detector manufacturers in this state ( White, Compass, Fisher, Bounty Hunter, Discovery ) and everybody and their dog had a tector. The guy and his wife who started D&K Detector Sales here many years ago had several of the old time milk crates heaping full of silver coins on display in his shop ( several hundred thousand )..It's practically impossible to find silver here unless it's on private property that has never been hit.

Bill

 

[bb]

How do you determine if a coin is usable? What is the criteria for a bank to accept a coin? I have just started detecting and need to know what to do with my coins that have only their face value.

 

[Roscue2]

BB, most banks will accept coins as long as they aren't heavily corroded or terribly bent. If they're bent all you need to do is beat them with a hammer and most banks will accept them. Unfortunately , there is no way to fix heavily corroded zinc pennies.

 

[glide]

I like to keep some beatup coins in my car & truck so when I stop by micky-ds or for gas I always have the right change. Its an easy way to get rid of all the small change.