What do ya do with your modern clad coins ya find???

[warthog steve]

8)hey folks-just wondering-what do all yous do with your clad coins you find??I save mine all year and,at the end of the year,i give mine to my church as part of my donation.Last year I had$39.00 in modern coins-not bad,but THIS year,I am working on giving at least $100.00-I better get out there and get busy-I think I am near $50.00 right now. 8)

 

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[jeff of pa]

I use my Quarters at the LAUNDRY & CAR WASH,

Pennies GO in a LARGE WATER JUG

& DIMES & NICKELS Go in my ash tray in my car.

Just in case i fill up & it rounds out to $00.15

 

[skydiv]

I cashed mine in 62.00 to pay for my ace 250.

 

[sherpa t]

Mine will be funding gold or Spanish silver coin purchase at the local coin clubs annual show and sale.

 

[hollowpointred]

right now ive got em in an old coffee can.about $72.00. eventually i will drop them in the coinstar machine and use the cash to put towards upgrading my machine.

 

[bk]

I would save them up and then buy BU Morgan dollars.

 

[Monty]

Roll them ukp and cash them in$$$$! JIM

 

[rusty nails]

i put mine in a jar and i must say they are adding up quite nicely - the ace was a clad magnet the other morning - I dug a few targets that showed a junk/coin reading and was pleasantly surprised
LBP

 

[KevGA]

Mine pays my md'ing fee: My wife has a coin jar. She gets the clad, I get to go out another day!

 

[silvergirl]

I have been MD since March. I have a Prizm IV. I keep track where I MD and what I have found. I am getting better. I have found $20.00. I put mine in plastic bags.My goal is to find enough money to pay it off. I would like to get a Bounty Hunter.I have expensive taste,but the MD is priceless.I am in another world when I MD. I lose trace of time. What a hobby.

 

[stoney56]

For now just tossing into a coffe can, just counted last night. $211.xx. Course also throw in paper money when found which includes a $100.00 bill that hurt someone for losing.

 

[Mi$$ouri Jim]

clean em.... seperate them... then bottle em & stick em on a shelf. I am waiting til I have saved up about $1000 in clad ... then plan on buying a new top-O-the-line detector with it all. Been detectin since 99 & I think I have about $350-$450 so far (not sure as I stopped cleaning found clad after the year 2002 ... (see below)). Cleaning clad gets tiresome for me after the second week & I just lose interest. I like to clean them so that they are not just spendable, but nearly shiny as the day they were minted.

I dont find much clad .... about $65-75 a year. I just dont get out enough (too lazy).
One year (2002) I DID go "clad crazy" with a bigfoot coil in an attempt to break the $100 barrier.... found $130.39 that year.

 

[rusty nails]

miss. jim - how do u get your clad that clean ? - whats your technique ? - thanks LBP

 

[Sweettoothbear]

My kids have no problem... spending them.

 

[Mi$$ouri Jim]

miss. jim - how do u get your clad that clean ? - whats your technique ? - thanks LBP

A LOT of tumbling!

Actually I'd say about 10% of non-penny coins are nearly impossible to get shiny & bright..... for that 10% you have to settle for a dull silver color.

Pennies are the easiest to make REALLY shiny! For pennies I use the usual recipe (rock tumbler,small riverstones or aquarium gravel, any soap/detergent/toilet bowl cleaner & water)...... after nearly all of the dirt has been tumbled off of the pennies..... I then tumble the pennies in lime-away & clean water...... makes em really shine!

Now the silver-colored coins are much tougher to get shiny (especially the really dark ones that have been in the ground a LONG time). I tumble dimes & quarters together & nickels seperate. I like to use either sno-bowl or lime-away in the tumbler. Lime-away sometimes gives the silver-colored coins a whitish tinge to the coins i dont really like.

*Note: be careful with some of those toilet bowl cleaners out there as some of them have some really harsh chemicals in them (sno bowl is one of them.... I think).

I just tumble & tumble & tumble the coins until they are shiny. I have a few coins (mostly quarters & dimes) that are so worn (& marred) from so many tumblings that you could barely tell what kind of coins they were! Those were the really stubborn ones.

I also think it is important to change the water often & rinse the coins & rocks frequently when tumbling.

Most people are satisfied with their clad in spendable condition, but I like to make em shiny! Yes.... kinda pointless & wastefull considering that you are wasting water,detergent & electricity just to make the coins "pretty" (but i tumble my coins at work .... so it doesnt cost me anything (but detergent) to clean them & make em shine!).

 

[JakePhelps]

I put some of mine thru the wash and they clean up

 

[rusty nails]

MI$$ - that pretty much covers it - thanks for the detailed reply - 8) LBP

 

[treasurekidd]

I clean them lightly in the sink to get all the crud off them, then I throw all of my clad into a cash register drawer type bin, separating them by denomination, along with my pocket change. Every 2 weeks or so, I roll up what I have and deposit them at the local corner bank, in my rainy day / mad money (translated means BEER money) savings account. You'd be suprised how quickly it adds up.