Just a Sunday morning

[ron-in-idaho]

The sun was out, no wind and a good day for a few hours with the MXT.

Went to a yard where the house was recently torn down. Found a few pennies which I usually don't dig and a penny that had been flattened by one of those machines, I can't read it. Dang.

Went to a local school and found a 10k gold ring and a 2000 Sacajawea dollar, first I have ever found. Ended up with $3.00 in change, not to bad for a few hours.

Suggestion to all you hunters who read this.
Call local banks and find out who has dollar coins, go there and buy some coins to spend and spend them. Do this monthly. Contact all your coin hunting buddies and any club you belong to and ask them to do the same. We need to get people out there using them dollar coins. The more people that use them, the more us park and school ground hunters will find. I can't believe it has taken me years to find even one dollar coin. It is just not right folks. So get out and spend them dollar coins. grin...

 

[Hunt4Fun]

Hi ron-in-idaho,

Congratulations on the great hunt ..... gold ring and a SAC dollar too.

Wish there was something that could be done to cause circulation of the modern US dollars but I doubt the SBA and SAC dollars will ever circulate. The problem appears to be that the US mint goofed when they made the SBA and SAC dollars so close in size to a quarter. Most people refuse to carry them for fear of spending them as quarters.

The US mint should produce a new series of dollar coins that are enough larger than a quarter so the difference can be easily detected by sight and touch. If the mint did that I believe the dollar coins would circulate.


HH Bob

 

[ron-in-idaho]

I agree, but in the mean time go to the bank and get some dollars and spend them. grin...

 

[Hunt4Fun]

OK, and I will try to convince others to do the same. Seems like a novel way to leave tips.

HH Bob

 

[NamVetLesTreasureSeeker]

Hi Ron in Id., How did the 10kt. ring register on the meter? Did it register Ring/5-cents/pulltab, or otherwise? CONGRATULATIONS on your finds!! HH

 

[samwatkins_75]

I think the reason the SAC dollar didn't catch on was ,frankly, because it is ugly.The lil indian girl has a humongous head and a face like a frog.I worry she's gonna eat the baby with that big smile she's got.She looks devious enough to do it.As for the Susan B. Anthony dollar,it's down right hideous, that's one ugly broad with a face only a mother could love.It's similarity to a quarter in size only compounds the problem.They'd be a lot more popular if they were as beutiful a piece of art as the old morgan and peace dollars were.Those were beutiful coins that an american could be proud of.

On top of this, people hoard the dollar coins when they get them, thinking they have some kind of value above and beyond the face value, which they don't. I remember when the SAC dollars came out , people were calling them golden dollars and I'd bet the majority of the ignorant public think that there is some sort of gold content to them.

It really is a shame that they don't issue more dollar coins. Coins last on average more than 30 years in circulation , whereas a dollar bill only lasts a few months.If they just stopped printing so much of the paper and flooded the market with coins, problem would be solved. Our goverment could save so much money by issueing more coins, and they could put the savings to good use on other projects. of course, we all know that isn't gonna happen.

To compound this problem, you got the fact that we have been on a currency system since 1975,when we got off of the gold standard. Modern american coinage isn't backed by gold anymore , just the goverments promise that the notes and coins have value.
Because of inflation(which wasn't as much of a problem prior to 1975 in my opinion) it's easy to see that coins have little value at all anymore. It takes more and more of them to buy anything and people just don't want to lug around a ton of heavy change with them.

On top of this, is it just me or does it seem since the mint switched to copper clad zinc pennies in 1982 that pennies just don't seem to last anytime at all in the ground. If I find a penny with my metal detector and it's before 1982, when they were still solid copper, the penny looks as good as when minted with a lil toning. If it's a zinc cent, it's all pitted and corroded and you can hardly tell it's a penny anymore. I doubt if metal detectorists in the future will have anything to find with the crappy money they mint nowadays. If the coins spend anymore than a month in the ground now they are gonna dissolve away.

Yall should think about these issues and remember when election times come around.I say we fire them all.

 

[samwatkins_75]

congrats on the dollar coin by the way..the biggest coins I have found so far is quarters and only clad..I've yet to find any silver.I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.Persistance is the key or so they say.As for getting more dollar coins in circulation..good luck. I think you'd be better off giving them away and hoping the recipients lose them. Most cashiers use the slot in thier drawers that dollar coins would go in for rolls of coins and the dollar coins just end up back at the bank. I have never recieved half dollars or dollar coins in change as long as I have been alive.

 

[ron-in-idaho]

I just went and tried the ring with the machine and it was like 6-8 today on the meter, but the other day when I found it more like about 12.

 

[ron-in-idaho]

I agree on the coins, they do not last at all. With the MXT I usually just leave zinc cents in the ground, they are not worth digging, corroded as they usually are.