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A dingy SAC, an Oriental coin worth 500 something, and some clad..

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Uncle Willy

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Had a couple of decent days so snuck out and done some beeping for an hour or so each day. Pickings were mighty slim but it was good to get out with Mother Nature. The SAC is about number 53 for me but it is a ratty looking sucker. Found another one days ago that is all beat to hell. Must have been a snack for the mower. Don't know what the Oriental coin is. Has the number 500 on it and everything else is in Chinese or whatever.

Bill
 
This brings up an interesting pose, as it were.

Last August, I found a 2000 SAC in a local park, in what I would call Fine condition. It was down just about 4 inches. The park soil around these parts, is very granular, and the flora mostly goat weed and/or Russian bent grass. A simple cleaning with soap and water was all it needed. Obviously, I have no idea how long it laid there. The one pictured here is plain ugly, and looks like your average clad after a couple of years.

The pose here is, I wonder how long it takes the various coins (clad or otherwise) to deteriorate under identical soil conditions?

A related pose; I've found late 80s clad pennies is good condition, yet a few feet away will be another with an almost unreadable late 2000 date. Both basically at the same depth. In this case, I wouldn't think the soil conditions would be so different. Or perhaps, there is a difference in the materials used, which doesn't seem plausible.

Like I said, it is just something to muse about when it's raining too hard to hunt!

Alan Applegate
 
Nice finds Bill. You should ask Ian-Japan on the other forum to get an ID on it. Are those dollar coins being used more and more as time goes on? You need to get rid of those 1 and 5 dollar coins. That would force everyone to use those dollar coins.
 
Hey thanks a bunch BCD. You just made my day. I thought it might be Yen but wasn't sure. Now if I could only go to the Orient and spend it. :rofl: I've got a slew of foreign coins from all over. Got some Mexican coins marked $100 but we all know what they are worth.

Bill
 
The soil here is volcanic so it ain't kind to any coin and eats them up fast. I've found several with the gold color eaten away revealing the silver finish underneath. I tried to get some info from the Mint as to why they would mint a coin with a beautiful silver finish then cover it with that gold color that rapiodly turns to ugly baby poop brown, but couldn't get any answers from them. I discovered a method to turn a gold SAC into a silver one in about a minute. I have given some of them away in my contests.

Clad here that spends any time in the ground becomes indistinguishable and looks like a blank slug. Even the barkchips in the playgrounds eat them up. Over the past 2-4 years I've recovered about 54 SAC dollars and all are 2000's and most were in decent shape but several were like the one pictured. Have another that I found days ago that looks the same plus it got eaten up by a mower. The mineralization here, and I assume everywhere, runs in the ground like the grain in hardwood which would explain the difference in condition of coins in the same area.

Bill
 
What nothing from Ireland? Glad to see you're still king of the Sacs!

Chris
 
That's a nice pile of coins Uncle Willy. The 500 yen coin is nickel-brass dated 2003. There were only 438,405,000 minted so it's not so rare in Japan. But over in the US I'm sure there are not so many. Take it to a bank and exchange it for a nice crisp fiver and some change. Or just add it to your foreign collection.

When you clean it up, tilt it so it's almost flat and look at the "00"s. You should be able to see "500" in them. It's supposed to be a newer counterfeit measure because the older 500 yen coins were about the same size as the Korean 500 won. Someone figured you could use the 500 won in vending machines to buy a drink and get back 400 yen and still make a nice little profit.

That's what I like about metal detecting. It's an adventure because you never know what you're going to get until you dig it up. 500 and 100 yen coins ring up almost the same as pulltabs so I have another reason to clean up the parks.

kak
 
Thanks for the info bud. I think that's my first Yen coin. I've got some different oriental coins in my foreign coin jar. I gave one to my doctor's nurse that had a bull on one side and a Budda on the other. No idea what it was. Being as Portland is an inland seaport a lot of foreign coins get lost here plus we have a diversified population. I've got coins from all over the world.

Bill
 
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