What to do with old clad?

[Joe19403]

I must have about a hundred dollars in clad coins and just tumbled them . I was planning on taking them to the coin machine and started to look at the dates . A lot of quarters date to the late sixties and are in good Condition. I googled a few and some are worth eight dollars and others a dollar or two. The question is where to sell them?

 

[fwcrawford]

Anything not silver I find goes to the bank for greenbacks... I doubt those older quarters are worth much more than face value
being they were recovered from the ground.
I have found many quarters dating back to 1965,but years laying in the ground has tarnashed them and even by tumbling them, I have not been able to make them look like the quarters in my pocket.
Just my thoughts,
Felix

 

[scubadetector]

NONE of the clad you find and tumble is worth anything but face value. I LOVE my bank. They take ALL my coins the way I find them. They said they just send them in to the mint. No cleaning, nothing. The coins you see that might be worth something are ones that are uncirculated.

 

[Larry (IL)]

My bank will not take dirty coins, but it really is no trouble to tumble them and they turn out pretty nice too.

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[Wooden Nickel]

LArry,

How many hours of swinging does that picture represent?

 

[Elton]

Just teasing a little LOL

 

[Larry (IL)]

I don't have any idea how many hours, I don't keep track. I think it is about 6 months worth of hunting in 2010 and that was not a very good clad year. I was hunting mostly deep coins and relics that year. In that picture is about 3000 coins, $330 worth. When Nancy and I use to clad and jewelry hunt, we went over $1400....... 13,000 coins in one year....... viva la Bigfoot.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Yup, I was using the V3i but any ole detector will work for clad, the secret is in the coil. When clad and jewelry hunting, it is hard to beat the Bigfoot for covering as much ground in the shortest amount of time. Nancy and I had many $50 days cladding. Both of us are starting to slow the pace down and a good day of hunting anymore is 5 or 6 silver coins or a handful of civil war bullets.......

 

[grumpymedic]

I trade mine in and then purchase some type of silver to add to my collection. I just used the $30 I had to get me a nice Morgan dollar. I figure when I am gone my kids will have some cool stuff to look at or trade in if they need to. HH!!

 

[BarberBill]

Once cleaned up enough to be reasonable, I spend mine - especially for batteries etc. I figure any one that does much coin shooting should never have to buy batteries out of their regular budget.
BB

 

[TerraDigger]

Bill, have you considered rechargeables. Pay off in the long run.........and I don't think your gonna stop detecting anytime soon

 

[BarberBill]

Terra Digger -- I have considered rechargeables, but all my detectors are relatively easy on batteries, especially as I use headphones all the time and I get good life out of any of the name brand alkalines. Most of my hunts are just a couple of hours and sometimes it's awhile between hunts, so I don't think I'd see a geat break cost wise and there's no hassle with charging etc.
HH
BB

 

[Roscue2]

When I clean my clad I just through it in the tumbler fo one to 2 hrs. Not trying them beautiful, just get the dirt off.

 

[mhammer]

I've been saving all of my clad finds. Hopefully some day I'll have enough to buy something valuable. Maybe if i save about $4000 worth I'll try to cash it in

 

[BlueDuck]

Im turning mine in from this last year and getting a new coil.