What do you do with your clad?

[MexGT]

What I do with mine is ... I clean with a tumbler what I get during a week end and save them in this little treasure chest ! Thinking in filling the chest, hopefully I'll be able to in a year or two lol, there are about 900 coins in there atm and it barely adds up lol

What about you guys? Spends them? store them?

GL & HH

 

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[Loco-Digger]

I save them throughout the season. Mine get cleaned and separated and each type has it's own plastic coffee container. I roll them and deposit them in my hobby account in January. I use the cash for MD trips, upgrades, repairs, and other hobby related expenses. This account has PayPal attached to it. I have numerous printer drawers to display old toys, relics and other cool finds. I also have a lot of other finds that aren't great, but are old, I plan on making a collage with many of those pieces.

Coffee containers Q= Quarters D= Dimes N= Nickels etc


My First display item, bought it for $20 at a yard sale.


I am a coin shooter at heart so all my true treasures go into coin folders and flips for safe keeping. I also have a small simple 6 drawer (dresser looking) jewelry box, one drawer per year, 1st 3 filled (2014, 15, & 16).

Face value of coins dug per season

2014 $510
2015 $351
2016 $253 so far

It's a hobby that funds itself through your labors, I mean pleasurable times.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I save my clad till the end of the year, roll them up, and deposit to the bank...tumbling not at all necessary.

The fact that you included your favorite cervaza in the pic....solid.

 

[MexGT]

Thats a lot of coffee too Loco ! lol

And there is never a bad time for a cerveza BigWaveDave

 

[Loco-Digger]

Thats a lot of coffee too Loco ! lol

And there is never a bad time for a cerveza BigWaveDave

It sure is, we brew a pot every day. I am somewhat a cheap guy and like to re-purpose items if they fit the need.

I like your treasure chest

 

[KangaWoo]

Here in Aus, our (what I guess)is clad, are the copper pennies & half pennies, 1 & 2c copper coins.
I have know idea what to do with them, I have about six kg, over 800 of the buggers. one day will probably sell them at copper price.

Also find a lot of $1 & $2 coins, these soon add up and I cash them in at the coin counter (at bank) I also sell all my post 1946 silver (50% silver) and use all the cash to buy gold and silver bullion.

I know I use more fuel then the value of my finds, but it all adds up after years of digging.

I like the treasure box idea

 

[nsdq]

Poor as heck so use what i can quarter wise at laundry mat... and gas, and turnpike fees for va hosp trips , rest save in cans /jars and hide them approx 300 bucks buried someplace if i can remember where ........

 

[Mackaydon]

I deposit clad in the Salvation Army kettle each year at Christmas time.
Don.....

 

[victhedog]

clean it and put in the bank
spend it on new toys and beer

 

[SurgTech57]

Hey Loco_Digger I like your collage idea though I don't have anywhere enough or kewl junk for one as yet.

 

[UNC_]

mine gets saved up for hobby things that i need or think i need lol

 

[boogeyman]

I deposit clad in the Salvation Army kettle each year at Christmas time.
Don.....

I got this picture in my head of the little old guy straining to drag the potful into the store at the end of the day.

Thanks for the idea!

 

[boogeyman]

I usually take the little Starbucks coffee bottles and fill them & add in a few shiny dollars and halves. Take the labels off with acetone add a ribbon. Give them to the grandkids at Christmas. Kinda cool seeing them going through "the treasure" while the toys get played with later.

You can solder a loop of wire on the back of nickels and wha lah! you've got some cool unusual buttons. Actually got paid to make a set from old centavos.
eight cents + a little work = $35.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Hey Loco_Digger I like your collage idea though I don't have anywhere enough or kewl junk for one as yet.

Yes I an going to pick up a cheap framed print from a yard sale or maybe a salvation army store, will probably paint over the print and then start hot gluing the relics on it. I think it will look good in my Office.

 

[worldtalker]

Buy REAL money.

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[MexGT]

Buy REAL money.

GOD Bless

Chris

So clad is not real money ? Im confused lol

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Clean it and spend it or roll it and bank it.

 

[against the wind]

Yep,, I will use a tumbler during the winter months to clean my clad.
I opened an account with TD Bank because they had Penny Arcades. If you are 62 or older or maintain a $200. bank balance,, there is no charge. For everyone else there is an 8 % charge.
However, some homeless dude raised a stink, (no pun intended), about being shortchanged by the coin counters. He made so much noise, a newspaper reporter took up his cause. He picked 30 different banks that had machines. The reporter deposited $300.00 in coins in each. Every machine shortchanged him. One machine came up $30 short. This led to a lawsuit that forced TD bank to pull all their machines. I still use TD for my treasure finds deposits, but I now have to roll all my coins before depositing. They supply the coin rolls.

 

[Xraywolf]

First few years I used to clean it, count it down to the last penny, separate the coins and at the end of the year cash it in.
Would give my young daughter everything but the quarters, we usually ended up with $100+ each.

Don't go through all that trouble anymore, just toss it in a jar and when it is full, throw it in a coinstar, jar holds about $90 when full and typically do that twice a season.

 

[Ammoman]

I have not turned any of my clad in yet but i will this December. I plan on using it to buy small silver bars.