Lets post some pics of our better Sovereign GT finds.

[JASONSPAZ1]

Sad that it has been discounted. Good that we own one.
Here are some pics of some of my better Sovereign GT coin finds.
Lets show everyone what our GT's have found for us.

HH
Jason

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

The GT was two weeks old and paid for $2500.00 100 plus years old>

 

[Maxwedge]

Here's one of mine a few years ago. 2.06 karat diamond in a huge gold and platinum ring. Need more like this, lol. HH-Mark

 

[Critterhunter]

Jason, very nice coins. I have yet to dig a seated dime in that nice of shape. Did dig a really mint seated quarter though, which I'll try to dig up some pics of here, along with a few others.

Buried Crap, very nice! I dug a ring 100+ years old a long time ago. Huge man's yellow gold with white gold lions holding a 2 carrot diamond of very high quality. Unfortunately, the only picture I took of it was blurred by the flash and the ring left my hands not too long after that so I never did get another picture. Man I wish I had a picture of that ring. Saw it by eye with detecting on land. Rain had eroded away some dirt near the top of a small hill. I saw tons of round tabs exposed and the ring sticking out as well while detecting, but didn't even have to swing over it. The diamond turned out to be an old miner's cut, I think they call them.

Max, that ring is one heck of a find too! That's a log of bling for sure.

(Going to see if I can dig up some pics of some of my nicer finds here in a bit..)

Oh, hey. Buried Crap...What's up with you buying a new GT? I thought you had moved on from your Excalibur to other waters these days?

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Jason, very nice coins. I have yet to dig a seated dime in that nice of shape. Did dig a really mint seated quarter though, which I'll try to dig up some pics of here, along with a few others.

Buried Crap, very nice! I dug a ring 100+ years old a long time ago. Huge man's yellow gold with white gold lions holding a 2 carrot diamond of very high quality. Unfortunately, the only picture I took of it was blurred by the flash and the ring left my hands not too long after that so I never did get another picture. Man I wish I had a picture of that ring. Saw it by eye with detecting on land. Rain had eroded away some dirt near the top of a small hill. I saw tons of round tabs exposed and the ring sticking out as well while detecting, but didn't even have to swing over it. The diamond turned out to be an old miner's cut, I think they call them.

Max, that ring is one heck of a find too! That's a log of bling for sure.

(Going to see if I can dig up some pics of some of my nicer finds here in a bit..)

Oh, hey. Buried Crap...What's up with you buying a new GT? I thought you had moved on from your Excalibur to other waters these days?

CritterI have had a GT since 2010 I bought a CTX 3030 in May 2012 and haven't used the GT since I have sold 9 of the 10 coils I had and the machine is up for sale on a another page. The last coil a Sea Search wired for the sovereign is the olny coil left its for sale too!
My diamond are mine cut also thats what pushes the price!
BCNJ

 

[Critterhunter]

Dug up what I could find, but doesn't show some of the coins listed at in my signature file at the bottom of my messages, as well as numerous others. Can't find the pic of the barber half I found a few years ago, nor a few other walkers and the franklin half. For about a year I was going half crazy, so to speak. Here comes some stuff...Not all of which you'd probably classify as "best" as to your thread's purpose, but just the same finds are finds...

 

[Critterhunter]

n/t

 

[Critterhunter]

And some more...

 

[Critterhunter]

This is about the last of what I can dig up off hand. As said, a lot of these pics probbly don't qualify as to "best" you used for the thread's purpose, but what they lack in quality maybe they make up for a little bit in quantity...

Good timing on the thread by the way. As if many of us aren't already scratching at the walls wanting to get and suffering from a rather bad case of cabin fever, that's for sure...

 

[deepdiger60]

Over the years ? hhmm i got to pick my 2 favorite buckles both early 17th Century 1620 1645 made in England one buckle is a spectacle buckle bronze and copper in great shape about 8 inches deep in a 1600,s farm site, the other is a shoe buckle with floral design again copper with some bronze found in a woods where a very early home site used to be again about 8 to 9 inches deep The Sov GT loves deep copper i was using the 10 inch Tornado then . Everyone great finds your posting Lets see more . Jim

 

[JimmyCT]

WOW! that ring is a beauty! I can only hope and pray I find a beautiful ring like that.

The GT was two weeks old and paid for $2500.00 100 plus years old>

 

[JimmyCT]

Wow these are some amazing finds! I am still looking for my first seated coin....Critter your 1855 seated looks to be in pristine condition!

 

[JimmyCT]

n/t

 

[JimmyCT]

I know everyone finds mercs, rosies, buffalo's etc but the significance of finding them in places others won't even spend an hour hunting makes them special finds. I had a complete stranger come up to me (he was watching his kid play baseball) and started raising his voice at me and saying, "why the heck are you wasting your time in this park? There is nothing left in this place! You should stop wasting your time here" I just laughed to myself as I know there may not be much left in this park but I still manage to pull an old coin out from time to time. It is true - no place is ever really hunted out. It may be HARDER to find coins but with persistence and going into "places I would never think of going" has really paid off for me.

 

[Critterhunter]

Great finds there! Large cents are one of my favorites to find, since they are a job to recover in pounded old parks due to their size making them easier targets for even "lessor" machines to a certain extent. Best day I had on those I dug 3 one right after the other about 3 feet or so apart. Every one had square nails in the hole with them. Last one I dug was this past summer, and it was a long dry spell since I dug my last one before that.

That seated quarter of mine ain't mine. Remember, I don't hunt. Seriously though, yea...Great coin. I will never forget it. I called my friend over to show him a quarter sized silver coin still laying in the bottom of the hole. I had a feeling it might be something special, so I told him to remove it himself and I just watched his eyes as he saw what it was. His eyes got real big and he said "No way!" I knew then it was something better than even a barber based on his over the top reaction, so I said out of instinct "Is it Seated?!" And he said "Yep!"

The thing is that I think more fondly of watching his reaction and sharing it with him than I do the coin. Coins come and go, good friends are priceless. That's what hunting is more about to me these days- sharing moments with friends, and I've got some friends who I met in this hobby 20 years ago or so that are my best friends to this day that we do far more than just detect with each other, such as sharing some cold ones or swapping homemade wine, or taking road trips and such.

By the way, that seated, if memory serves, had a very good book value in an older coin book (the only one I had at the time to use, which was like 10 years old) best I could judge it's grade. But, it had a few nasty dings at the edge. At the time they didn't look too shiny so I thought I didn't do them. Truth be known I'm not sure if that's the case, or whether I just convinced myself I didn't ding it up. I cleaned it and the silver 3 cent piece up prior to the pics. Yea, I know it's not a very bright idea and destroys coin values, but hey I like my coins shiny. If I was concerned about price I wouldn't have done that to it, even though I'm sure I destroyed much of it's value by doing that.

PS- That big honker gold ring in one of my photos is only plated and with a fake stone. Really had my heart going when I scooped that one in the dry sand one day until I took a closer look. And, that thing with the gears on it is my best guess in inside of a pocket watch. And I think in the same pic there is a doll at the edge of the picture made of porcelain. I've been meaning to price check that thing. Found it when I stumbled onto an early 1900's bottle dump in the woods. None of the bottles were worth anything really. Just too new.

 

[Critterhunter]

Those are some more nice finds of yours there. Yea, I know what you mean about the public. Haven't really had any rude ones I can remember except years ago a kid came up and said what are you looking for "gold coins"? Then a little later his dad walks by and says real nasty like "you ain't going to find any gold coins here". I didn't say I was, but I think it's the greed factor where people feel you are beating them to the hobby they always thought of getting into and getting stuff ahead of them.

Here's a few more things from me, some junk rings and such, and my one and only pocket watch, which is junk metal but still a keeper in my book...
[attachment 258993 junkringsandsuch.jpg][attachment 258994 pocketwatch.jpg]

 

[deepdiger60]

Had to get some bling on a post not my most expensive ring find by far but my favorite best silver ring i found so far 15.2 grams !!! .925 Mexico, walking to the wet sand on a beach swinging my GT with a S-12 coil on a dune there it was very shallow a few inches in dry white sand . Ill never sell this one . Jim

 

[JASONSPAZ1]

I got this 1884 Morgan Silver Dollar and Gold ring my first time water detecting with the GT. These two finds plus the 1782 Spanish 2 Reale that I posted earlier in this thread are featured on Minelabs website under the Sovereign GT success stories.

HH
Jason

 

[JASONSPAZ1]

Some more of my better coin finds found with my Sovereign GT. My two Flying Eagle Cents, Two more Seated dimes, 1777 Reale, And five Colonial Coppers found in one day under one tree.

HH
Jason

 

[Critterhunter]

Fantastic finds there. I have yet to dig any reales or colonial coppers, but I have dug a rushian Kopek coin about the size of a large cent and a smaller russian copper coin also from the 1800's. Don't have any idea how those ended up where I dug them. Long way from home. Looks like you are hitting some real vintage areas judging by the coins. I have to start targeteting 1700's or early 1800's sites and leave the more modern areas with barbers and mercs for days I can't think of anywhere else to go. Also, been trying to keep in mind when I hit a spot pre-1930's or so that a gold coin could very well be laying around there, and to dig all those lower hits that several gold coins read as. The lowest reading coin is a nickel 3 cent piece, and the 2nd lowest is a $1 gold coin. Wait....nickel 3 cent piece or is that a nickel 2 cent piece? Got to refresh my memory on my ID chart on that. Either way, whatever it is it's a very low foil hit right near the bottom.