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Dancer

Dancer

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Just since yr. 2000. We have seen the big decline of the use of coins. It cant be stopped. Look by now people are paid by elect. deposits. Credit & debit card useage keeps growing (school lunch cards are killing us) No coins needed for pay phones you need $10 for a pack of smokes. Consessions are rounded to the dollar. Jewerly is being replaced by tatoos. The list can go on and on.
By the yr 2030 any coin dug will be considered rare. Does anyone see a bright side I need cheered up?
 
Dancer said:
Just since yr. 2000. We have seen the big decline of the use of coins. It cant be stopped. Look by now people are paid by elect. deposits. Credit & debit card useage keeps growing (school lunch cards are killing us) No coins needed for pay phones you need $10 for a pack of smokes. Consessions are rounded to the dollar. Jewerly is being replaced by tatoos. The list can go on and on.
By the yr 2030 any coin dug will be considered rare. Does anyone see a bright side I need cheered up?
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Things change...they always have.
Talk to any of the old timers and ask them about how easy it was to find tons of silver coins back in the 60's and 70's...even with those older machines that usually didn't get as much depth as they do today.


There may be less coins dropped nowadays, but there is still a huge amount in the ground that were dropped in the past.
Coins are not gone yet and are still being used so a few less dropped but people are still losing them.

Jewelry being replaced by tattoos?
That I don't buy at all.
I find lots of jewelry and as long as people are still getting married, are still graduating from schools, are still convinced the one's with the shiniest and biggest bling wins, and most importantly as long as there are women on this planet a great amount of jewelry being dropped will never be in danger.

Cheer up.
There will still be plenty of targets in the ground to find as long as people still feel like swinging detectors.
 
The sky is falling............the sky is falling..........:rofl:

You need to get out more Dancer :biggrin: I bet there are more coins in the ground than are in circulation, you just have to find them. There is probably just as much jewelry too.
 
:biggrin:That's right!---You need to do more swingin & less typin Dancer.-----There's (good) targets out there for ALL of us.----Might not be just like "the good old days"---but guess what----there IS a (favorable) tomorrow in this great hobby!
Larry (IL) said:
The sky is falling............the sky is falling..........:rofl:

You need to get out more Dancer :biggrin: I bet there are more coins in the ground than are in circulation, you just have to find them. There is probably just as much jewelry too.
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I may not be finding lots of old coins but I am Killing the Clad. There is a park that I think is about 10 years old that has baseball fields and a football field. In the past three months (Hit that park in June and July but did not document numbers) I have taken over $115.00 in modern clad out of that park and it appears that the donors are still losing coins as I have found surface drops in areas that I had previously worked. I do not expect to find silver coins in that park but I did find a 1964 Washington Quarter there. That was a real surprise.

If our ancestors lost a coin and had any idea where they might have lost it they searched diligently hoping to find that coin as money was not easy to come by. As a youngster I rarely had any coins in my pockets to lose. Today's generation does not care if they lose coins. Most youngsters will not bend over to pick up a coin that is just laying on the ground.

The folks that detected before us found lots of silver as that is what was available. As time goes by the amount of silver that is available to be found had decreased since it is not being replenished. We have to "Do Diligence" and search out places that may not have been detected to be able to find the older silver coins.

There are still Millions of Dollars in coins that have been lost in the past still undiscovered. We just have to persevere and go find them.
 
Too many people are turning back to cash because their credit is shot.

Some just use cash because they don;t want their purchases traced.

And don't forget, the demise of the dollar bill is going to happen, the sooner the better.

When the coin replaces it, I wouldn't be surpirsed if the $5 bill meets the same fate not long thereafter.

So be of good cheer.
 
Thought about this topic a lot myself...:sadwalk:

Finding a silver dollar that was dropped in the 1800's would be like finding somebodys entire weeks pay today. Well maybe not that much but still...I'm chapped about the fake jewelry, especially the stainless steel and tungsten, carbide rings...I think I am hunting/finding stuff dropped 20-30 years ago and not so much fresh clad as last year, I think the silver coin hunters in the 80's in this area disregarded the clad, good thing too, they sure cleaned out the easy silver, and I've done my best to get the clad!:rofl:.

Bright side is gold chains, and gold jewelry! You know those signals are easily missed, so thats what I'm after., still, I havent had a over 20 buck day in clad since last year, and that at least keeps some gas in the tank..gotta go for the gold as fast and hard as possible, since thats not really getting replenished as fast as it used to either, less and less people spending any appreciable time outside away from the computer machine...heck, most class rings now a days are Lustrium! :rant:

A fellow certainly has to target specific areas and neighborhoods with a demographic eye on gold. Have a look at what people are wearing when you have to go shopping sometimes, interesting to try to figure out which stores parking lot has a good chance of holding gold in the snow pile zone..:shrug:this sport of ours eh?
Mud
 
He Fellers, sounds a bit like some folks may even be wising up to the likelyhood of "someone" soon to be having that one size fits all
 
It's good news and bad news in Canada with regard to coins. The good news is that we stopped making pennies. The bad news is that the rest of our coins are anodized steel. They rust when in the ground for a couple of years. There won't be another generation of detectorists finding todays coins. They will be reduced to unidentifiable little rusty disks.

Dan
 
Dancers post depressed me so badly that I went out to a local park today and dug $9.15 in clad and 20 stinking lincolns/Zinclons. I am slowly getting the clad infestation in that park under control. Been working that park since June and still finding lots of clad. There are more than a thousand people in that park when they are playing ball on all five of the fields. They are continuing the tradition of losing clad as I find fresh drops in areas that I have previously worked.
 
Dancer brings up a point that the humans ways of carrying money are changing and not for our good.

Lots of the younger guys I know use a debit card for everything, from a pack of gum to a night out...we are hunting money lost by kids of the past that had paper routes, mowed yards, shoveled driveways, played outdoors from sunup to after sundown, camped out, rode bicycles, fought...Let me know when you see a kid outdoors that isnt wearing a uniform and playing soccer...I bet the kids have debit cards now too, and the folks just transfer their allowance right on it....It all went in the crapper when the Good Humor man went under...that was the canary in the coal mine for the detecting community!:rofl:
Mud
 
What this hobby needs is a Congress willing to tackle the terrible state of our coinage!

No, I'm not advocating a return to gold and silver. We need an immediate shift to a 4 coin system.

Drop the penny and nickel.

Keep the dime.

Keep the quarter

Make a new dollar the size of a nickel and almost twice as thick

Make a new 5 dollar coin the size of a quarter and twice as thick

Drop the $1 and $5 bills

Loose millions of the new $1 and $5 coins a year (secret -- thick coins are really easy to drop and mostly fall silently).

Our children and grandkids will be able to make lunch money detecting.

Just a thought. Oh yes, bars should bring back free lunch - or at least free happy hour snacks.

A guy can dream - can't he!
 
It's great in Canada..........................our govt banned one dollar bills and two dollar bills.They replaced them with coins. They might even introduce a five dollar coin. These high value coins were a boon to service industry staff..................people use them as tipping coins. They are in everyone's pocket. You guys blew it in the U.S. you introduced a one dollar coin............. but leave the one dollar bill in circulation.....how stupid is that? If there were only the one dollar coins and no bills you would probably rack up 200 to 300 per year. !!!!!!!!!!!!! I do that and I only detect casually on the wekends. I pick up another 50 to 100 two dollars coins as well. Just my dollars worth.
 
The bright side is you think you'll see 2030... If'n you do then you will not be worrying finds for detectors... Good luck! :blowup:
 
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