Silver 2017

[Hal2k]

Cleaned and rolled all my clad coins found in 2017 and purchased the 3 silver coins shown in the photo, hoping that 2018 will be even better, so far started out with a cool relic find (see Todays Finds Post).

 

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[Peyton Manning]

cool idea, I just buy beer with mine

 

[BigWaveDave]

I plan on doing that too on Monday... I got $92.98 this year, down from years past...
But the way I see it, us detectorists are contributing to the economy, by reintroducing lost money back into circulation, as well as using that money, that all we had to do was find, and invest it towards precious metals...
Genius really.

 

[BigWaveDave]

My wife buys me beer.

 

[Peyton Manning]

My wife buys me beer.

she just sends me cash

 

[Loco-Digger]

I keep a separate bank account in a different bank than I normally do business with. I call it my hobby account and have PayPal attached to it. I use my banked clad for upgrades, accessories, and other hobby related expenses. In 4 years in the hobby I have dug well over $1400 (face value coins). I just find it easier to have my cash readily available and not wrapped up in coins or metals. I only collect coins that I find or are given to me.

When I see a good machine for sale locally at an absurdly cheap price, I go check it out and if it has no issues I buy it with hobby account funds. Over the years I have bought and sold many machines and left meat on the bone for the buyer. This allows me to try other machines (makes and models) and gain enough working knowledge to be helpful to others in the hobby and I make a meager profit which also goes into my hobby account.

All of my machines have paid for themselves with the clad they help me find or their sale price. My wife and I have paid retail from a couple of the vendors here on Tnet, these were either birthday or Christmas presents otherwise I rather buy gently used and get a great deal from someone who thought they'd enjoy this hobby and just wants to liquidate their gear since they are not the MDing type. So many noobs think they are going to pull valuable treasure every time they dig a plug and after reality sets in they do not have what it takes to be successful in the hobby. I invest about 5 minutes a day looking for hobby related deals.

By the way I have not sold any of my finds. I have 5 gold rings and a gold pocket watch that I could sell for their gold value as well as my 5 gal. buckets of old lead, copper, and brass still accumulating. I had someone offer me about $800 for a coin I dug, but I feel the gold and coins look great in my collection and display area. Maybe someday I will liquidate them.

This is a great hobby that can pay for itself if you are not opposed to an occasional cladfest. I had 2 virgin honey holes that gave up well over $500 in clad. They were so target rich that many times I would not dig a target unless it rang in as a quarter or better. I can remember, back in 2014, that some of my best cladfests earned me about $8 an hour where as the norm for my area is only about $1.50 per hour.

 

[against the wind]

Very cool purchase. My clad gets cleaned , rolled, and deposited into a Seperate Hobby Account.
I have scrap Silver and Gold that is collecting dust while I wait for the prices to go up.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice idea, congratulations!