What to do with the findings.

[Toby12]

What all do you with your findings. For sliver and gold coins do you sell, if so how?. For gold and silver rings do you sell, if so how.

 

[Goes4ever]

I haven't sold a single item I have found since I started, way too much work involved to find them. I make displays. My intention is to pass them all to my son someday. My collection should carry some decent value by then...........well providing I last awhile. I am only 37, but you never know, .....no promise of tomorrow

 

[EZrider]

My clad go's into a empty water jug. It get cashed in once a year. Silver coins go into card sleeves and put into a binder. Gold jewelry that i find i save until i have a good amount. That gets sent to a refinery in TX. The gold "and one Plat ring,,avatar lol" brought in almost 3k. Clad was a couple of hundred "half pocket change other half finds".

 

[stevew]

U use my clad to buy more equipment silver stays junk gold goes to be melted down unless my wife wants it



Steve w

 

[Terra1959]

Hi Toby,

I have cashed in modern coins at the bank...thats what got me the Etrac and a holiday.

I have sold plain gold rings and earrings and kept the nicer ones and the ones with gemstones in them.
Sold it by registered & insured post to a pro buyer and got a great price (just 5% under spot price), ...I was recommended to this buyer by a fellow m.d.
the buyer views the gold items and assesses their value, phoned me with the prices and if agreed sends a bankcheque (or deposits into your bank a/c)
If not agreed the buyer sends the items back reg. post.

I collect and keep all the older coins and relics.
I have traced and returned 2 silver medals ( 1 war medal ) with id inscribed into them.
I have stacks of silver rings in a container silvers not worth too much...dont know where they will go.
I collect all my aluminum, lead, copper and brass to go to recycling.

T59

 

[NebTrac]

I've pretty much kept my stuff. Like Terry said, you work pretty hard for it. Clad goes in a bucket to be cleaned someday. Other will get put in a display this winter...hopefully. Lately, if I hunt people's yards (especially good aquaintances) I've been letting them have the finds. Some of them say nope, nice to see it, but don't really want it.

NebTrac

 

[tippyhound]

Goes4ever

Glad to hear someone say they never get rid of anything. I wish I could say that. I started in this hobby in 1968 and I found more then my share of silver coins and gold rings. I was always needing extra cash in those days having a young family so many of my finds got sold off and I sure regret it today.

My father-in-law was my hunting buddy back then and he like you never sold anything he found, when he passed away 5 years ago my son purchased his whole collection. There's so much more there then silver or gold value, you can't buy or sale memories.

The silver & gold finds are much harder to come by these days, and my son is now my hunting buddy.

Keep up that attitude.

 

[EladSwerdna]

I have never sold anything I have found. I even keep alot of the junk. It's all priceless to me!

 

[onemore]

You can donate the coins that you don't want, like the Memorials.

I tumble all the clad with distilled vinegar and stones for 3 days - come out looking like pocket change. Just recently got $352 from the bank for a large jar full.

 

[Mike Gresham]

I spend all my clad at the Liquor Store buying Canadian Lord Calvert for my MD buddy Benny Hudson in Georgia

 

[Goes4ever]

I do turn in all the clad, but I really don't dig much clad because I mainly hunt old farms. I also keep a bucket to separate out junk brass and copper pieces, this I turn in at the end of the yr to the scrap yard. But all old coins, jewelry, buttons, tokens, relics etc.....I keep. I have a separate room I display stuff in, adding to it more and more

 

[Mike K (Ohio)]

I to have never sold a thing and never have planned on it. I had a guy make me a small to med sized Pirates chest and lined it with like velvet material and I save all my coins/jewelery and anything nice in there I to plan on passing it down to my kids glad to see I'm not the only one

Mike K (Ohio)

 

[Mike K (Ohio)]

I do turn in all the clad, but I really don't dig much clad because I mainly hunt old farms. I also keep a bucket to separate out junk brass and copper pieces, this I turn in at the end of the yr to the scrap yard. But all old coins, jewelry, buttons, tokens, relics etc.....I keep. I have a separate room I display stuff in, adding to it more and more

I take all my clad which like you doesn't amount to much and I go to the flea market and there is a coin dealer and I trade all my clad in for gold coins. After going through all my clad making sure there is nothing of value I put it all in a rock tumbler and clean it up and trade it in on gold

Mike K (Ohio)

 

[Goes4ever]

I have traded all my clad for older silver coins. I try to get ones that I don't dig much of like seated or capped bust