Just Curious....who's been lucky enough to ever find a US gold coin??

[Mark ( ohio )]

Trust me, its nothing but dumb luck !!!! Took me 15 years of hunting in England before I found my first gold !!! It was a very expensive coin !!! )))))
If you have the means, it is worth the trip. Finding a US gold vs foreign, is slim to none. Most trips to England at least 1 person finds a gold coin. My last trip, some guy found 2 !!!
and I wasnt too far from him.

As far as counting, the post stated 'US gold coin' but I DO count all mine !!

Timing is everything in this hobby. Just being in the right place at the right time ,is 99% of finding great things. However, I do know some people that always seem to find the really
good stuff quite often. Me I have to work really hard at most everything. I hunt almost daily putting 4-5 hours. No one ever said it would be easy !!! But its so addicting !!!!! ))))

HH
Donna

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

Oh man o man.... three strikes gold coins is fantastic, and more wonderful is a ten $$ coin talk about scarce major congrats on all the gold coins..

 

[Monte]

What was the denomination of the coin and how did it ring up on a target ID machine ?? ( and which machine did you use )

Any finders out there..

Mark ( ohio )

→ $2.50
→ 1913
→ The audio response was very good.
→ It didn't register a VDI number for Target ID because I was using a Garrett Ground Hog, 15 kHz, 7" coil, and it was the summer / fall of 1978, about 5 years before Target ID was introduced on a detector by the original Teknetics.

Monte

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

→ $2.50
→ 1913
→ The audio response was very good.
→ It didn't register a VDI number for Target ID because I was using a Garrett Ground Hog, 15 kHz, 7" coil, and it was the summer / fall of 1978, about 5 years before Target ID was introduced on a detector by the original Teknetics.

Monte

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

presumably from one of the many ghost towns you frequently hunt ??

 

[Donna(NJ]

Oh man o man.... three strikes gold coins is fantastic, and more wonderful is a ten $$ coin talk about scarce major congrats on all the gold coins..

Thanks for the kind words. It surely is a thrill to see them in the dirt. Each time, you just cant believe what you are seeing.

 

[Michael Allen]

→ $2.50
→ 1913
→ The audio response was very good.
→ It didn't register a VDI number for Target ID because I was using a Garrett Ground Hog, 15 kHz, 7" coil, and it was the summer / fall of 1978, about 5 years before Target ID was introduced on a detector by the original Teknetics.

Monte

I am an old Vietnam veteran. Been metal detecting since 1957. I was lucky enough to go on a junket with some other guys in 1979 and used a Garret Ground Hog to hunt gold nuggets with. I took 2 factory hipmounts with 2 10.5 inch coils and 2 7.5. came home with close to 10 oz. in a week of hunting. As for U.S, gold coins I found A cache of 151 5 10 and 20 dollar gold pieces. Gold was worth 70 dollars an oz when found..

 

[Michael Allen]

I am an old Vietnam veteran. Been metal detecting since 1957. I was lucky enough to go on a junket to Australia with some other guys in 1979 and used a Garret Ground Hog to hunt gold nuggets with. I took 2 factory hipmounts with 2 10.5 inch coils and 2 7.5. came home with close to 10 oz. in a week of hunting. As for U.S, gold coins I found A cache of 151 tota;l of 5 , 10 and 20 dollar gold pieces. Gold was worth 70 dollars an oz when found..

 

[TRIPLE-SSS]

Still looking for mine!

 

[Mark kus]

I was in a well hunted park supposedly lol when I found my 1911 $2.50 Indian it was my first year detecting 2016 I was using my used Etrac after that I pulled so many silver coins from that park a CC seated quarter a Morgan dollar lots of barbers and mercury dimes I still go back and find coins..
The coin was in the hole with a money clip it was attached to and had fallen off I first pulled the money clip out and saw there was a coin once attached stuck my hand in and out came the gold coin I was in disbelief so it rang up like a silver quarter if I remember correctly here’s a photo it’s also in my avatar
Mark

 

[Mark kus]

I was lucky enough to find a 1911 $2.50 coin in a park in Montana. I was using a Bounty Hunter Big Bud Pro (this was years ago), and the coin read up exactly as a pull-tab. I was hunting under a tree where the ground was really easy to dig, so I decided to investigate. If the digging had involved more work, I probably wouldn't have bothered. After all, it was probably only a pull-tab

-Ken

same coin I found a friend of mine found one also a 1910!
mark

 

[Mark kus]

As you can see from my avatar, that is my first gold coin but it doesnt count as I found it England. 1695 William the 3rd Guinea. My second gold coin which is my first gold coin found in New Jersey,
It is a 1910-S $10. The only thing I can remember about about finding it was I kept swearing at myself all the way home. Of the 1000's of coins I have dug, why did I scratch this one !!!

Here's how I found it. I was hunting a beach one day and noticed that new pilings were set just in front of the boardwalk. When they drill the hole, they go down maybe 20 feet or more. Unfortunately most of the time, the sand they pull up ends up going back down once they pound the piling in. However, there is usually a cone of sand that remains around the piling. On occasion, I have some older silver that got pulled up. So whenever I see this, I go running. As usual I was finding almost nothing. I decided to go over to the row right by the boardwalk. I get this high tone and begin to dig, There were large pieces of concrete which made digging very difficult. I was having a a hell of time getting the target out. When I shook my scoop I saw a gold colored coin. I thought it was one of those dollar size gold tokens from the arcade that always gives you a heart attack. As I removed the sand from the coin, I started seeing something imprinted on the edge. Then I saw the eagle. Then I flipped it over and just wanted to die. My first US god coins and I put a gash right across the face. I just wanted to die and almost cried. So now when I look at the coin, I only look at the reverse!!!! To top things, off, I have also recently found my 3rd gold coin but that one doesnt count either as it was found in England, too. 1877 gold sovereign.

My next goal will be to find a Celtic gold stator with a little horsey on it.

HH
Donna(NJ)

I always use a shovel unless im in the water wading and its impossible so a scoop is used
Mark