Dollar coin finds in North America how many ?

[Dancer]

I just retired this yr.and have hunted a lot. About a little over 5,000 coins. This is due to the time I have to hunt, not to any special skills. Also this is my best yr. for finding $ coins. I found 4 to date. Isn't that pitiful? The Fed. Res. is sitting on 1 point one Billion coins in it's vault. Their not going to move as long as there's paper Dollars. Some guys, maybe not me will have a chance to crack a hundred or so in a yr. I wonder how many you guys have been finding? Hows it going up in Canada? I think for us in the Lower 48 it would be like a small gold rush.

 

[mudpuppy]

I havn't found one since July...Word is, the Govt is considering it as a way of saving money as part of the defecit reduction super committee, since they are sitting on such a pile, they may as well.. Wish they would go ahead and do the 5's too. The problem with these modern coins is their poor ground life and shallow stampings. It would be a real rush to sweep them up in a hurry before they rot!
Mud

 

[gordygroover]

The Govt. doesn't have much power to get these coins into circulation.
A business gets its operating cash from a bank just like you and I. The business person can request paper money and that is what happens most every time.
Wanna know why???
There just isn't a place in a modern till for a paper dollar and a metal one too. Kind of like the two dollar bills. Just no place to put the darn things

 

[MrGee]

Hiya Dancer...this has been an unusual year for me but I've found 15 dollar coins this summer. I say unusual because 8 of them were from one visit to a tot lot in a park Last summer would be more typical....I found only 6 all summer, Face it Dancer, if people don't lose them you can't find them and they can't lose them if they don't carry them. The fact is that you have to go to a bank ans ASK for them, although I'm told that in many vending machines if you put in a five you will get your change in dollar coins, but that's about the only way they get circulated. GordyGroover is right - modern cash registers just don't have enough slots built in to handle another denomonation of coinso merchants don't like them. The government should just cut way back on the printing of paper dollsrs and ease all those coins out there.


MrGee

 

[Minas man]

I found less than $10 worth of $1 and $2 coins in my first year of detecting but this year I have found $33 so far this year 17 $1 and 8 $2 coins and I have not hunted since June. Theses larger coins sounded like trash to my untrained ear but this year I made a point to increase these larger coin recovery's and so I as I trained my ear I was able to do far better. The larger $2 coin sounds like a stepped on flattened aluminum can and early in the season I thought I was digging a pop can and it came up $2 coin so that is what inspired me to learn the larger coins. Sure I dig the odd can but $33 in large coins is worth it. I swing a Tesoro Vaquero and added a Garrett Pro pinpointer in the spring so I am a Garrett user.

Minas man

 

[Sailorman]

Jeez, we're new to this only been at it two months, we hit a Saq dollar last weekend and got pretty cranked. I wish it would be routine!

 

[16penny]

I found one washington dollar coin this year. I didn't even know it till I got home and was rinsing off all the coins I found that day. I found it with my Ace 250 when I was first learning how to use it. Haven found any since.

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

The Govt. doesn't have much power to get these coins into circulation.
A business gets its operating cash from a bank just like you and I. The business person can request paper money and that is what happens most every time.
Wanna know why???
There just isn't a place in a modern till for a paper dollar and a metal one too. Kind of like the two dollar bills. Just no place to put the darn things

You can replace the drawer liner in most modern cash registers, the ones up here in Canada have room for 2$, 1$, 25c, 10c, 5c and 1c. Nothing like the ding a toonie or loonie makes...CHAAA-CHING!

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

n/t

 

[nebraskagoldhunter]

Two this year and Two last year

 

[GoGoGopher]

I find more Canadian dollars than american dollars...Go Figure...Your right though...In order to make the dollar coins possible, the Goverment MUST give up the paper (shred and recycle), and Business Owners and Manufacturers will have to Re-Design the cash register...Americans will B&*CH for a while, but get used to em..

HH,

 

[oldranger]

Had 1 Saq this but TWO 1/2 s

wish i did better but ill take what i get!!!!

HH

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way

 

[mudpuppy]

It hadn't been swept for a long time, it was chuck full of clad, and they were discolored. The govt will go ahead with this, I think, they dont care if you spend them or not, as a matter of fact, they would prefer you didn't, it cost the Fed about a penny to produce them, and the banks sell them to us for a dollar, so they made their money, who cares if we spend them amongst ourselves, loose them, or eat them. So its our problem to figure out the logistics, not theirs! They will have just saved themselves the trouble of constantly printing ones, which cost the same as printing a 20. I just wish they didnt rot so fast. maybe they shoulda made them outta Stainless.