what do you do with your clad?

[nickelpicker]

I've asked this question before on other forums so I will ask it here also. I use to buy new metal detecting stuff with it but at some point I decided I wanted to have something more lasting to show for my days of detecting when my knees give out. I now save my clad and when I feel I have enough to buy some stocks I buy stocks ( mutual funds)etc. We are not talking about a lot of money but it adds up and the quarterly dividents allow me to take my wife out to dinner, breakfest etc.

I knew a fellow detectorist who bought US savings bonds for his grandchildren. Just curious! Thanks

[lee]

this is gona sound so daft ( silly ) , i buried the last 60 clad coins ive found in a small metal box so someone could find a cashe in years to come.
the first lot from the first 6months bought me my pro pointer, which judging by the amount of wheat pennys ive recovered since getting it i really needed .

[Fire Fighter 43]

It goes into a detector fund and I use it to pay for new gear.

[Cheap Thrills]

First I curse because it wasn't silver :shocked04:verreaction: then when I've gotten a lot of it , I sort it , tumble it , roll it and either spend it at the gas station or take it to the bank . Some folks leave them crummy and run them thru the Coinstar Machines often causing the machines to malfunction this is a rotten thing to do to the Coinstar guy who is trying to make a living and to the other people who may want use the machine . >:/

[CODY]

Yes, please, always tumble your old clad coins. Most places wont take them dirty and crusty. Tumblers and aqurium gravel are cheap. The last time, which was the first six months of detecting, I took the wife out to a really nice dinner. The rest went for batteries and gas.

[SHIMMER77502]

All my clad goes toward a CD for my grandson. He's one year old so hopefully it will buy him a college textbook 17 years from now..... lol

[p52ntwrk]

[attach=1]i save mine in a orange cup to give to destitute people on the streets.

[steve in so az]

p52 - that's a great thing you do with it. I give mine to the Gospel Rescue Mission - similar, Steve in so az

[roamingusa]

I save all my dirty money for a rainy day ;)

[Beefcake]

Mine goes to Clad for Kids ;)

[RobW]

I have one account I put it in. Last year I used the clad to buy a certified 1916-D Merc in VF cond., this year I used it so far to buy an x-5 coil (or maybe that was last year too) and a1941/42 Merc overdate and a 1913-s barber quarter. I still have a bit over $1200 in the fund and have about 6 gallon size ziplocks full of dirty clad...and so long as the weather holds out hopefully a bit more for the year. So basially I use them to buy more coins and then my wife can't complain, because it's found money....but lets not tell her how much I spend in gas to go find it :lipssealed:

[KYBuzzBox]

I tumble and cash my clad in at the local bank. I sell any silver separately and keep a fund going to pay back the cost of my detector.

[TC-NM]

I'm waiting for winter and will tumble all, cash it or save it for new detector equipment. :groovy:

TC-NM

[ChrisinCT]

I just keep adding mine to a jug. Somedays when I get home from a hunt ill toss it out in my yard.

I'm hoping when my grandson gets older he will take interest in metal detecting and will have a field day.

If not someone someday maybe fifty years from now will find the mother load.

I'd like to throw in some silvers but sadly I don't find much of that.