Would doing away with the dollar bill make detecting more interesting?

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pocketpiececommems
pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Would we start finding more dollar coins? And if they did away with pennys how long would we keep finding them😳
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  • WhiteTornado
    WhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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    I would think we'd find at least some modern dollar coins. But think of the ones that go through circulation for a while, man, those things can turn pretty ugly image

    As far as pennies, they could stop making them right now and I feel like I'd still be finding them by the boatload for decades to come!
  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    it might help with off setting gas prices or maybe some lunch. something to ponder on here
  • pcgs69
    pcgs69 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
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    I think stopping the cent would help the hobby after two decades have past to clean up the current supply in the ground. You hear those in Europe come home with $20 or $30 in change, so stopping the dollar bill would be a good thing for us.

    One thing to fear is the possibility of metal changes. What would happen if the cent/nickel were made out of steel? It could drastically change detecting due to all of the nulling due to rusted coins.
  • Dockwalliper
    Dockwalliper Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭
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    Check out any forum that Canadians post on. They are going thru all these issues.
    The new coins sound like gum wrappers in the ground.
    It took only a few months for pennys to disappear from circulation but I bet they will still be digging them for years to come.
    I've seen some amazing totals for clad diggers. Where I might find 3000+ coins in a year and total $150 up in Canada, with the $1 and $2 coins, the total is more like $1000.
  • pcgs69
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    I got a Canadian dime a few weeks ago and was surprised the signal it gave. It was something like a half null, half low tone signal.
  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    zenta is the something wrong with your posts or is it just my computer? All I see is websites.
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  • pcgs69
    pcgs69 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
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    he's a spammer and needs to be banned.

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