1853 GOLD $1 DOLLAR

[Lcb24kt]

A little bit of snow on the ground didn't keep me from finding the Number 1 item on my bucket list, a gold coin! I never thought I would find one! It was a great day metal detecting! Besides the 1853 $1 Gold Coin I also found a 1905 Indian Head Penny, 1956 Wheatie, 1 flat button, Bronze Bicenntenial Commerative Coin

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QTNmQrWYYB0[/video]

 

[saltersnatch]

Awesome....Congrats. What machine were you using?

 

[dougj7]

congratulations. those $1 gold coins are tiny.

 

[jpm1983]

Awesome find, hope one day I can find one!

Happy Hunting

Justin

 

[Lcb24kt]

I was using my Fisher F-75

 

[birdman]

You have hit the pinnacle of what we all hope for!

 

[Lcb24kt]

n/t

 

[scubadetector]

I wonder if it was a recent loss. Somebody had it on a chain? Will never know.

 

[Sgt. Silverman]

Wow that is Awesome! Congratulations!

 

[Porschephile]

THE ULTIMATE FIND!!

Big Congrats!!!

Those are tiny!! Great job to recover it!!

What was the depth on the gold coin?

 

[Maxwedge]

FANTASTIC FIND. YOU'LL NEVER FORGET THAT. YOU JOINED A RARE CLUB. HH-MARK

 

[Lcb24kt]

The coin was about 8" down

 

[Porschephile]

The coin was about 8" down

WOW!!
That is much deeper than I expected a detector to hit on such a small target!!

I am very impressed with you and your Fisher!!

Those hit very low on the conductivity scale. I doubt I would have dug it, thinking it was a pull tab or foil... What impressed you about the detector output to decide to dig it?

 

[Lcb24kt]

The numbers were right and it had a nice sounding lower tone. Also the field i was hunting in was pretty clean, hardly any trash at all, so it was very easy to hear all the targets. I even said I thought it was gold or junk before I dug it. I love my F-75...I use it at DIV hunts in that high mineralized VA red soil and was finding targets over a foot deep. Its an amazing detector.

 

[ez4sure]

wow awsome find what tid numbers did it read HH

 

[scubadetector]

I for one would get it checked. The internet says a lot of copies were made in Isreal in 1969. It should weigh 1.7 grams also, a bit less with a hole. I know of no machine that can hit that small of gold at 8". Hope its the real deal.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[jim tn]

Fantastic find! My hats off to you. The F 75 will do it! HH jim tn

 

[MANDAD76]

Very nice find...congrats to you!!

 

[TXPIRATE]

Thats one great fine congrats.