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Wife finds GOLD coin first time out! Ace250

NWhunter

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She has ruined my TH for life! First time out she gets this. A gold coin. Not just a gold coin but 7 Diamonds, an amithyst and these cool faceted teardrop Peridot, and smokey quartz, . But A Gold coin! Did I say first time out? Well she had a few minutes on the Ace250 that she found this with. Maybe 15 tops. and this is her first detector. Took it right over to the Jewelry store and they said? Yep it's all real and worth about $500 or more. Dang now I need a new wife to detect with as this one is in the dog house with me. ) Well here it is. Anyone know what the coin is? The whole thing is 9g on the scale.
She found it at the beach, We just live about a mile from it. We did not even do a 20ft area and she fount it. I was using a Elite and was finding nails at 10-12" bottle caps and everything else. But about 10-15 minutes and she comes over and drops this in my hand and says "I think It's real" Well after fealling the thump of the weight of it plop into my hand I thought "It is real" Well needless to say I looked very hard for the other one but, nope. Her little 250 is paid for and she has a nice prize for he trip to the beach. I know for sure I will not have any problem getting her to keep on THing Just so you know we live in the seattle area. She found this one all on her own. Heck I was doing my own thing and would only glance over her way every so often. She started to my left but the tide was up so we had very little space to hunt. Maybe 60ft from the water to the train tracks. I started at this big log and she was on my left but a few minutes later she moved up away from the shore where it was a little rocky and started working a spot of clean sand over on my right. no more then a couple minutes later she foud it This beach is long but not wide. Been that way since I was a kid. Nothing like Cali and walking an hour from the parking lot through the sand just to reach the water.
Low tide will give us maybe an extra 20" or so to work. I love this as it keeps everyone in the same line down the beach. Not overwhelming for Nobies like us. I will shoot a pic today Yes we are going back to try again. I may even find something this time.



Thanks
Happy Hunting

NWhunters.
 
....identifiable as being ancient Roman, issued under Imperator Antoninus Augustus (IMP ANTONINUS AVG), better known as Elagabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (161-180 A.D.), with what appears to be the Goddess Vesta on the reverse.

The coin may or may not be genuine, and might be either a gold aureus or a plated denarius. If it is a genuine gold aureus, the coin alone should weigh about 7.5 grams + or -. With the mounting and stones and coin all weighing a combined 9 grams, there is a good possibility that it may be a copy or a lighter weight silver denarius that has been gold plated. You would really have to remove the coin from the mounting to weigh it to get an accurate weight, and if it's weight is correct, then I would have it authenticated by one of the ancient coin auction houses such as Stacks in New York, or any of the several that can be accessed via a Google search.

Hope this helps......

Ralph
 
[quote Ralph Bryant]....identifiable as being ancient Roman, issued under Imperator Antoninus Augustus (IMP ANTONINUS AVG), better known as Elagabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (161-180 A.D.), with what appears to be the Goddess Vesta on the reverse.

The coin may or may not be genuine, and might be either a gold aureus or a plated denarius. If it is a genuine gold aureus, the coin alone should weigh about 7.5 grams + or -. With the mounting and stones and coin all weighing a combined 9 grams, there is a good possibility that it may be a copy or a lighter weight silver denarius that has been gold plated. You would really have to remove the coin from the mounting to weigh it to get an accurate weight, and if it's weight is correct, then I would have it authenticated by one of the ancient coin auction houses such as Stacks in New York, or any of the several that can be accessed via a Google search.

Hope this helps......

Ralph[/quote]

Hi Ralph,

Well it is a real gold coin. Not fake in any way. Now is it a copy or a real coin? I took it to a coin dealer and he said he thought it was a copy as he said he could see the mold marks and it did not look striked! But the good news is that it is a real solid gold coin and not plated or anything like that. What a find for the wife. I told her we would find things if we dug everything. (We are new at this) So Now I have to eat my words and dig everything myself. We have a little Motorhome and are looking forward to getting out this summer to run up and down the beaches.. Thanks for the kind words.

NWhunters
 
Now that is a spectacular find and it's called "beginners luck" and it works every time. Bet your bride is hooked now.


Bill
 
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