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