Happy New Year to everyone. I have found a few gold rings sense being infected by the metal detecting disease in 95. I'm very grateful for all the wonderful things i have found but one item has eluded me and that's a gold coin.I just wanted to know how many of you have found a gold coin and where were you when you found it and how did you feel when you found it. When i finally find that gold coin for me it will be a find of a lifetime. I'm truly looking forward to that day.HH
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My find of a lifetime
- Thread starter tomtomnc
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Newbie Auggie69 don't worry you'll find those gold rings in time. Just keep on digging those gold signal and pulltabs and you'll see so gold rings. I guess many of us can detect our whole life and never find a gold coin. I'm no rich guy and can go and buy one if i wanted. Simply possessing one isn't what it's about .But to be out detecting on a nice spring day and to get that signal only to flip the plug to see a gold coin awaiting me would be a sweet day indeed. May 2011 be the year of the gold coins and rings for all of us.HH
BarberBill
New member
I've had an elevated heart beat several times that turned out to be the new, presidential gold COLORED dollars. Not really a gold coin, but a dollar's a dollar.
BB
BB
I've been metal detecting since '72 and I have not found a gold coin, but this is what keeps me in the hunt! Clad and jewelry are all very nice, but the day I dig up a twenty dollar gold piece or any gold coin for that matter, I will be doing a close approximation of an Irish jig!! I'm looking forward to it.
Uncle Willy
New member
Don't hold your breath. They are scarce as hens teeth. When they were in circulation the average person never seen one let alone had one to lose. Only folks that had any were bankers and the rich and they didn't carry them around in their pocket like loose change.
Bill.
Bill.
I hear you Uncle Willy. I remember when i was a child around five years of age and my upstairs neighbor nine at the time came running in the building with a hand full of old gold and silver coins. I asked him where did you find those coins and he said under that fig bush in our back yard.
I asked him if i could have one and he quickly closed his hand and ran upstairs. Within a month he and his family had moved out of the apartment.I check under the bush where he said he found the coins and found a small old leather like red sack that had fallen apart and was weather with time along with one Indian head one cent coin (1904) that my father still have to this day.I only tell this story to say we may have a better chance of finding a cache of gold coins then one singular gold coin. Either way i fell this may be the year for such a find. HH to all my fellow hunters.
I asked him if i could have one and he quickly closed his hand and ran upstairs. Within a month he and his family had moved out of the apartment.I check under the bush where he said he found the coins and found a small old leather like red sack that had fallen apart and was weather with time along with one Indian head one cent coin (1904) that my father still have to this day.I only tell this story to say we may have a better chance of finding a cache of gold coins then one singular gold coin. Either way i fell this may be the year for such a find. HH to all my fellow hunters.
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
It often happens when you least expect it.
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Uncle Willy
New member
Yeah a cache or two is uncovered once in a blue moon. We have an old park here a few blocks from my house ( 100 years old ) where a few gold coins have been found over the years but mine is still buried there somewhere 
Back during the Depression many folks didn't trust banks so buried their money in various locations. I found a cache of silver coins years ago that included nine Morgan silver dollars buried in an old paint can in the dirt floor of an old shed.
Bill
Back during the Depression many folks didn't trust banks so buried their money in various locations. I found a cache of silver coins years ago that included nine Morgan silver dollars buried in an old paint can in the dirt floor of an old shed.Bill
I'm from New Jersey Uncle Willy and grew up near many 100 + years old parks. I can't wait to go on vacation to hit those old parks. I can't imagine much pressure on them over the years due to their undesirable location (da hood ) I remember watching my older brother play softball in those parks. Many times the game would be interrupted by a player that had lost his wedding band or class ring. All the player would help look for it and after three minutes give up and continue the game.My Tesoro SideWinder is a coin and jewelry magnet. I'll be making the trip in March and will post pictures of the trip and finds.I know those old parks hold siver coins and the gold hey.. yu never know.
) I remember watching my older brother play softball in those parks. Many times the game would be interrupted by a player that had lost his wedding band or class ring. All the player would help look for it and after three minutes give up and continue the game.My Tesoro SideWinder is a coin and jewelry magnet. I'll be making the trip in March and will post pictures of the trip and finds.I know those old parks hold siver coins and the gold hey.. yu never know.Jiminsandiego
New member
I found a "Dos Pesos" coin that had been made into a pendant. Tiny little thing but supposed to have 1/10 oz of gold. Only thing is I think it's a fake (gold layered). Who would of thought a counterfeit 2 peso?
Jim
Jim
Only know of one detectorist in my entire county who has ever made a documented gold coin find. Although several others have claimed to, but none have showed me any proof as of yet. To give you an idea of how hard it is to find a gold coin, I have a friend who has been detecting for over twenty years and for the past 2 yrs. has gone over $2,500 a year in coin finds and although he finds plenty of silver coins, he has yet to find either a silver dollar or a gold coin in all those years. As for gold and silver rings, he has found enough to start his own jewelry store, if he wanted to...
I worked with a man who found one in northern Nevada. This was many years ago, and I believe he was using a White's Coinmaster. He found it next to an old stone foundation. He showed it to me some years after he found it. It was small, like a dime, and was a California issued coin. That's the only one I personally know of.
I have around the two hundred mark, many posted on this site. Normally a maximum of twenty or so in a cache plus odd ones. First fifteen years none because I trusted VDI meters to much. Now I tend towards the Nautilus DMC type of detector and almost always use P.I.'s on the beach even in iron.
One plus? in Europe is that there were always wars going on. On the continent, constant invasion, in Britain after 1066 just the threat but that was enough. You can also research where the rich went to picnic, bathe etc.
Here's a taster
One plus? in Europe is that there were always wars going on. On the continent, constant invasion, in Britain after 1066 just the threat but that was enough. You can also research where the rich went to picnic, bathe etc.
Here's a taster
WOW Brian! Seeing all those recovered Sov's in one pic! (You go boy!) Detecting as an adult....zip. As a kid...a small handful. I grew up in Montana/Idaho/Eastern Washington (out west) and the early '70's were good to a young kid who detected sunup to sundown!
First coin was found while detecting. I'd just came out of an abandoned building that I'd gone into to escape a massive downpour. Walked out to a street to do a path, and there in this mini arroyo, came flitting by a $5.00 gold Half Eagle! I hadn't even turned on my machine yet! Next coin was a 1910 $10.00 Eagle found in an early 1920's driveway. (The coin was toast but it was GOLD!) Next coin found was a 1945 Mexican 2.5 Peso.... hit by a lawnmower and technically, not found by me (but by a cousin) who I'd just introduced to the hobby by selling him my old machine. (He was having a problem pinpointing this target and I showed him and dug the thing.) Talk about beginners luck! That summer and into the late fall, a few more small denomination gold coins popped out (Mexican and one holed Quarter Eagle.) It ended there and to this day....nada. What a run!
I kept all my best finds in this huge wood cheese box and no one could believe that I'd found all that! One uncle didn't (Almost angrily....not sure what all mechanisms triggered that reaction?) and he was a believer after visiting us for a couple weeks...two weeks too long for me. Never had the true patience to really learn my machine fully as I was too busy digging EVERYTHING! Things are different now but...it is still out there to be found. All it takes is one piece of dirt!
First coin was found while detecting. I'd just came out of an abandoned building that I'd gone into to escape a massive downpour. Walked out to a street to do a path, and there in this mini arroyo, came flitting by a $5.00 gold Half Eagle! I hadn't even turned on my machine yet! Next coin was a 1910 $10.00 Eagle found in an early 1920's driveway. (The coin was toast but it was GOLD!) Next coin found was a 1945 Mexican 2.5 Peso.... hit by a lawnmower and technically, not found by me (but by a cousin) who I'd just introduced to the hobby by selling him my old machine. (He was having a problem pinpointing this target and I showed him and dug the thing.) Talk about beginners luck! That summer and into the late fall, a few more small denomination gold coins popped out (Mexican and one holed Quarter Eagle.) It ended there and to this day....nada. What a run!
I kept all my best finds in this huge wood cheese box and no one could believe that I'd found all that! One uncle didn't (Almost angrily....not sure what all mechanisms triggered that reaction?) and he was a believer after visiting us for a couple weeks...two weeks too long for me. Never had the true patience to really learn my machine fully as I was too busy digging EVERYTHING! Things are different now but...it is still out there to be found. All it takes is one piece of dirt!