Gold coin survey.... please look!!!

[silversniper]

HI everyone. Here's what my thoughts are: If I can get everyone who has found a gold coin to tell where it was found, maybe we can develop a pattern and increase our odds of finding them. We all want to find gold!!! I never have and it is one of my long-standing goals.

So, if you have found one please give a brief description of where it was found. I will start a chart and see if a pattern arises. If you belong to other forums maybe you could ask the members there to join here so they could answer the same question.

I know it's a long shot, but can't hurt to try!!! Thanks all, and good luck!!!

 

[Da Yooper]

I have never found one but my Grandpa found one detecting back in the 70's Location--- Ontonagon County in Upper Michigan

 

[Elton]

Sure a few keepsake pieces were lost.but their not everywhere.

 

[Larry (IL)]

I'll get the survey started.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?66,939068

 

[Tom_in_CA]

$20: stage stop

$20: at the beach during storm erosion

$10: in a furroughed ag. field, adjacent to a historic site. (can't say more).

$5 same as above, 20 ft. away

$5 old town sidewalk removal project

$5 old town urban demolition site, near a china-town district

$5 stadium bleachers demolition project. Bleachers dated to the 1920s, but some earlier stands were there from the 1890s.

$5 at the beach, during storm erosion.

$5 at a historic site (can't say more)

$2.50 at the beach, during storm erosion

$1 in the turf, at a park that dated to the 1880s.

 

[jim tn]

I have found 2, 1/10 oz Panda Bear coins in bezels, 1 with a small 10k chain, at different times and sites. One came from a park tot lot from among the chips and the other from the turf in a park. Good thing both were in bezels. HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

You gotta put "Gold" in there somewhere..... Fantastic............

 

[jim tn]

n/t

 

[nw1886]

Was detecting in Butte Montana and a major rain squall sent me inside an abandoned building to escape. As I was starting to detect again I noticed a flash in a narrow stream of runoff and.... 1905 $5 gold Lib!

Mexican 2 1/2 Peso at the edge of a sidewalk. Lawn mower cut.

Park in an old part of town produced another 1905 $5 at 7". Soil was black and loamy and that gold sure stood out!

1910 Indian $10 in a driveway at 4". Coin was heavily thrashed by gravel compression.


All these were found by the time I was 14 and have not found another one in the succeeding 39 years! (Spoiled dang kid!)

 

[Mi$$ouri Jim]

I read an article years ago about a guy who did his research to find out the mostly likely gold coin that metal detectorists found.

It turned out to be a five dollar gold coin. He then got one & airtested it. He found that three modern nickels tightly taped together rang the same as the five dollar gold coin.

In the end of the article he finially found one.

I think it was from an W & E treasures or Lost Treasure magazine.


I'm still looking. I figure if I dig all those signals at sites that date back to at least the early 1900s (1900-1925)... I have a decent chance of finding one.... eventually.

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....only three gold coins found in this province that I know of...two along a fresh water lake trail and the other in a potatoe patch if that helps!

 

[cwilk]

I found one that may or may not count. It was in a bezel. The bezel is 14K. The coin is a 1909 2 1/2 dollar. I was and remain supremely excited about my best find ever! I never get tired of showing it around either.

Chris

Found in an old park on the third base line of a very old baseball diamond. Solid pull tab signal.

 

[nw1886]

I found one that may or may not count. It was in a bezel. The bezel is 14K. The coin is a 1909 2 1/2 dollar. I was and remain supremely excited about my best find ever! I never get tired of showing it around either.

Chris

Found in an old park on the third base line of a very old baseball diamond. Solid pull tab signal.

...and we won't get tired of you showing it to us! That is sure a nice "pull tab"!