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Coins - Coins - Coins; Going away?

History repeating itself. The large cent penny went bye because it was an inconvenience and was replaced by something "better". Guess electronic app payments and credit cards are "better" than coins nowadays
 
Jewelry is being replaced with tattoos and money with debit/credit cards, Apple Pay & google’s version. Even non-ferrous metal items with cheap steel and plastic.
In the small towns the USPS offices seldom have enough cash to even cash a $50 money order. They say everyone uses debit/credit cards. Vending machines take plastic now too.
Detecting will never be anything like in the past.
 
I remember the good days back in the 80's when I could go to Quick Trip gas station for morning coffee and walk the parking lots and pumps and find at least $1 to $1.50 in coins laying on the concrete. The glory days were before cell phones where people had to carry lots of coins for payphones, especially long distance call that were very expensive. The coin return slots in payphones had the Coinstar returns beat by a large margin as far as payouts that could be had by checking those coin returns. As a 12 year old kid, I had a route of those payphones and news paper boxes I would check every day in the summer. Easily getting $2 - $3 in coins. Easier than cutting grass. The secret was to hit the phones very early in the morning when a lot of night calls has returned coins and before anyone else could check the coin returns on those payphone. Early bird got the coins.
 
I am not sure people have thrown away that many coins, but I do believe they may have lost that many… I know I have found quite a few of them!😂🤣
With that being said, I have noticed that many people do not carry change anymore…and are certainly not losing as much now as when I first started detecting in 2006.
 
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pulltabfelix said:
I remember the good days back in the 80's when I could go to Quick Trip gas station for morning coffee and walk the parking lots and pumps and find at least $1 to $1.50 in coins laying on the concrete. The glory days were before cell phones where people had to carry lots of coins for payphones, especially long distance call that were very expensive. The coin return slots in payphones had the Coinstar returns beat by a large margin as far as payouts that could be had by checking those coin returns. As a 12 year old kid, I had a route of those payphones and news paper boxes I would check every day in the summer. Easily getting $2 - $3 in coins. Easier than cutting grass. The secret was to hit the phones very early in the morning when a lot of night calls has returned coins and before anyone else could check the coin returns on those payphone. Early bird got the coins.
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One of my favorites was the airports. 100’s of pay phones in groups!
 
pulltabfelix said:
I remember the good days back in the 80's when I could go to Quick Trip gas station for morning coffee and walk the parking lots and pumps and find at least $1 to $1.50 in coins laying on the concrete. The glory days were before cell phones where people had to carry lots of coins for payphones, especially long distance call that were very expensive. The coin return slots in payphones had the Coinstar returns beat by a large margin as far as payouts that could be had by checking those coin returns. As a 12 year old kid, I had a route of those payphones and news paper boxes I would check every day in the summer. Easily getting $2 - $3 in coins. Easier than cutting grass. The secret was to hit the phones very early in the morning when a lot of night calls has returned coins and before anyone else could check the coin returns on those payphone. Early bird got the coins.
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The good oll days.
I think the 70'$ were the best.
Never dug so much silver
 
MuddyMo said:
Jewelry is being replaced with tattoos and money with debit/credit cards, Apple Pay & google’s version. Even non-ferrous metal items with cheap steel and plastic.
In the small towns the USPS offices seldom have enough cash to even cash a $50 money order. They say everyone uses debit/credit cards. Vending machines take plastic now too.
Detecting will never be anything like in the past.
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and that is not right!!!!
 
If there are not sites that are really old and lightly detected in your area , detecting is not worth either the equipment or the effort anymore and it is only going to get worse. There is no recharging for the clad hunter simply because it never gets to the parks and the same for jewelry. More and more sites are becoming off limits , especially schools and "designated recreational areas" , the word "public" has a new bureaucratic definition that doesn't include detecting.

Hard money is becoming an inconvenience for much of the population not just in the US but globally. There is a bad moon rising
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I received an email today Chase Bank is introducing a new pay method using your debit and charge cards for online transactions called Paze. Another method for the scammers to attack your funds, that also does away with carrying around real money!
 
Listener said:
I received an email today Chase Bank is introducing a new pay method using your debit and charge cards for online transactions called Paze. Another method for the scammers to attack your funds, that also does away with carrying around real money!
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I also got the same thing from the bank I deal with.
 
Used a Whites Coinmaster, and that is just what it was. Found more silver with it in 70's then I have with the modern new machines.. It isn't the machines, it is the times they are a changing as the song says..
 
DWerk said:
Used a Whites Coinmaster, and that is just what it was. Found more silver with it in 70's then I have with the modern new machines.. It isn't the machines, it is the times they are a changing as the song says..
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Yes. The 70's were awesome on silver and coppers.
 
Monday morning regular park hunt barely made gas money. Did get lucky and find a 79 Kennedy half under a leaf. Costume jewelry abounds also.
 

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