What’s your most popular clad find?

[StPetePaulie]

Beer Bottle Caps !! Okay...it's not clad....but it will ring up as all the clads ! Often at the same time !! I might start counting them as half nickels on my coinage total for the year...especially if it gets close to the end and I am having a problem reaching my goal.

 

[diggin4clad]

Diggin,
I've not spent a lot of time looking for clad or nickels. I'm wondering what you are getting on your AT Max for ID values on the range of nickel styles/ages. Do you have that information? Any other AT Max drivers have any opinions?
The only nickel I've found so far is a 1902 "V" nickel and it gave me upper 40s ID values in air.

Nickels ring in mostly at 52 but I've also dug a few at 51 or 53. These numbers are all Jeffersons and I haven't yet dug a war nickel with the Max so I don't know what the vdi number would be in ground but in air tests it's the same as a regular nickel.

 

[Diabolik]

Beer Bottle Caps !! Okay...it's not clad....but it will ring up as all the clads ! Often at the same time !! I might start counting them as half nickels on my coinage total for the year...especially if it gets close to the end and I am having a problem reaching my goal.

It's a shame there is no deposit fee on bottle caps and pull tabs because if there was, we'd be golden!

 

[JimR_TN]

It's all about quarters in my book. 90 percent are quarters for me and then dimes and nickels. Found around $10,000 in quarters since 2013!! I use the nox 800. The pic is from 2018 totals!

Noxdude50

Holy !!!!! That is a bunch of quarters!

But yes, quarters are my most common clad. Then dimes, then copper pennies. Unless I'm somewhere old I'm picky and try to pass over the Zincolns.

 

[StPetePaulie]

It's a shame there is no deposit fee on bottle caps and pull tabs because if there was, we'd be golden!

Yep. Could sell the beer caps maybe...only 225 or so to make a pound and at
2 cents a pound for unprepared steel (I'm guessing that's what they are)..takes only 11250 of them to make a dollar.......yep....not exactly golden that's for sure. Etsy has some craft ideas....I'm thinking Christmas presents for my siblings....a nice framed arrangement of various beer bottle caps and pull tabs....save me the five bucks a piece I usually spend on them.....adds up ! i'll be rich before I know it !

 

[Foragist]

This question made me curious so I made a little chart out of my clad finds for this year (total $174.16). The permissions hunted have been a mix, so I think it's a fairly representative sample of public sports fields, some private permissions, and heavily hunted spots too.

Very nice work on the graphic pie chart! Interesting that dimes eked out a miniscule lead over quarters.

 

[rustyk1]

My favorite clad find, without a doubt would be the SBA dollar. They're really scarce in the field and only made for three years. I know you said most popular, but I like the scarce stuff!

 

[Lee1968]

So far this year -

665 quarters (33%)
563 Dimes (28%)
156 Nickels (8%)
653 Pennies (32%)

Total of $236.88

 

[KOB]

I always enjoy your clad layout. I sometimes start thinking clad isn't glamorous. You make me seriously reconsider.

Clad will never be glamorous. Yes , it does add up and that's great. But why would someone save that much and not deposit it , compounding some kinda interest ? Odd how there is no discoloration on them , all the same. Even if you do clean them.

 

[MTtrashdigger]

After reading through this thread, I decided to take a better look at my clad. As I said in my earlier post, I ignore the zinc penny signals and rarely dig them but my other clad so far looks like this:

Susan B Anthony dollar -1
Presidential gold dollars - 3
Clad Kennedy half dollar- 4
Quarters- 560
Dimes -789
Nickels - 420
Copper Memorial pennies-611

 

[IDXMonster]

Because I dig in a slightly different way than many people, I find that CLAD DIMES are my most common coin. I’m chasing deep signals that read on the “high end” of a penny/dime signal (12-45 on the CTX in High Trash). Most of my pennies read 43-44, SOME make it to 45 but not enough to overtake the number of dimes I dig this way. I do think pennies overall are the most common coin found though.

 

[Leave-No-Coins-Behind]

Quarters and dimes are about a 1:1 ratio for me. But the slight edge probably goes to quarters if reviewing the past three years. Last year I found 3650 quarters, 3569 dimes and 558 nickels. However, in 2018, I found 4736 quarters, 4734 dimes and 1171 nickels.
This year looks very promising again.

 

[amc rulz]

Clad will never be glamorous. Yes , it does add up and that's great. But why would someone save that much and not deposit it , compounding some kinda interest ? Odd how there is no discoloration on them , all the same. Even if you do clean them.

Interest on savings? What is this, some kind of joke? Better off spending it now while there’s some purchasing power left.

 

[ElkGroveNox]

For me it’s dimes and copper penny’s, then quarters. I hunt with the nox and also ignore zinc, and almost never find a nickel unless I’m in older sites

 

[bruinvikes]

To answer your question, the most common clad coin I find is anything dated 1965.

 

[KOB]

Interest on savings? What is this, some kind of joke? Better off spending it now while there’s some purchasing power left.

50 bucks is 1 thing. But 10k in quads ? Me personally , I would have been putting that into a stock or index fund.

 

[amc rulz]

50 bucks is 1 thing. But 10k in quads ? Me personally , I would have been putting that into a stock or index fund.

I’m way too heavy into paper investments as it is. I recently retired and even my financial advisor is spooked, telling my to possibly wait until after the election before I move my paper, but at the same time he’s praising the fed for propping the market. Unbelievable! Up is down, down is up.

 

[tinsmith]

My best day digging nickels was the outside edge of a football field at a local park. I worked half way round the field. When it got dark i worked directly across the field. First time i had detected on the field itself. Found a 10kl ring in the middle of the field. I was surprised when i got home and had 27 nickels in my finds pouch. Dug nine bucks in clad so i dont know why there were so many nickels

Other diggers in that area probably are cherry picking. They don't dig tab like signals. and if thats true youd think there's a yellow ring or two in that field. But what do old me know.

 

[diggin4clad]

Interest on savings? What is this, some kind of joke? Better off spending it now while there’s some purchasing power left.

Must be a joke. My credit union pays 1/20th of 1% which equates to 50 CENTS a year for every THOUSAND DOLLARS in your account.

 

[tinsmith]

I mainly hunt Chicago parks and cents are literally everywhere. Probably the most common ones I find are copper pennies 1980 and older. I did however chance upon what I believe to be a kid's "buried treasure". All these were literally in the same hole. A handful of pennies (both copper & zinc), paperclips, a pushpin, a button, and a flattened Nefertiti penny from the Field Museum in Chicago. My hunch is that this was buried probably in the 90's since the oldest is a 1995. The kid is probably my age by now. LOL

The top picture looks like the contents from a desk drawer tray. Looks like someone grabbed a handful from a secretary desk drawer and ran off, later dropping them all somehow?