Alright Deus Boys! Here is where the Deus Shines. Monster Old Slver In Northern Ca

JackalopeZL1

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20170501_060315.jpg 20170501_060257.jpg Good Evening folks, Let me start off by saying I am freaking out right now, Literally, shaking and I never do that.:tongue3: So on to the story, I was at my friends house today hanging out like I have done for the last 20 years and he has about 10 acres of land. We are in a area that was a huge area during the gold rush here in Ca. I have always wondered about his pasture that the horses feed in. A few times over the years I have walked in the field and thought I should detect this sometime. The way the land lays I have always thought this would be a great spot for a old house. Right up the road is what is left of a rock building that was a stage stop on his neighbors property so that further made me think I should detect it. Not sure why it took me so long to do it?? lol

So today I told my buddy I was going to detect in the pasture and he said go for it. That was in the morning and I had my detectors but not my shovel and the ground was already hard even with all the rain we have had. I went home for a while, Watched my supercross races and went back in the evening with my trusty digging tool :) The grass is getting pretty tall in most of the field since the horses are not out there right now so I figured I would detect in the lower grass areas. About 45 minutes into the hunt of digging square nails I got a very scratchy sounding one way 97 on the Deus. I figured it was a can and almost did not dig. Matter a fact I started to keep going, got a couple feet past it and decided to go back and investigate again. The signal sucked but I decided to dig

I started to dig the hole flipped out a 4" deep plug, I immediately found a square nail and I swore under my breath like I normally do if I get fooled by iron. For the heck of it I put my pin pointer in the hole and found another nail or part of the original one. Pulled it out and checked with the pinpointer again. this time I was getting a slow beep in the bottom of the hole. At this point I stood up and used the dues to scan the hole again. But this time I was getting a banging 97 in all directions

I did not know what to think, I figured there was a big hunk of iron sounding off. I re-dug the plug this time going down about 8 to 10 inches and flipped the dirt out and when I did I saw what looked like a far rim in a dirt/rock clod.. Picked it up and saw a big rim with writing on one little section that was exposed. At this point I was thinking some kind of big old token? But figured it might be old so I put the hole clod in my pocket and walked to the house to clean it up..

I got to the sink and started hitting it with the water and quickly saw a unfamiliar face on the coin and saw 5 francs on the back. Rinsed a little further and saw 1811 and instantly starting shaking. this coin was heavy!!! It is a 1811 5 francs with a little wear so I figure it was dropped in the gold rush time!!

I am still freaking out that I found a monster OLD foreign silver in Northern Ca!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am very Bummed I did not video but frankly It never crossed my mind while digging this to video.. I hope you guys enjoy this!!! And I am super happy I used the Deus today. I have a pretty good assumption the ctx would have nulled over this with the Iron in the hole :)















 

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Joe hunter

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Nice story and a great coin .Guess you've got a great place to detect.
 

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Great story thank you for sharing!

That coin is a beauty, congratulations! :occasion14:
 

strongarm18

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Woot! Thanks for bringing us along! Looks like I'll be digging those shaky numbers again!
 

Foot hill

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Awesome big silver!
I'm in nor cal too and live near old 49nr area. Just have relics, Indian heads and Chinese coins to show so far.
I'm getting more familiar with full tones and higher reactivity and pulling good stuff from iron. So I hope to find some gold rush silver/gold coins someday.
Good job man!


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rick67

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Congratulations.

Sorry to hear you you almost walked away from it. (Bad Habits)

Get rid of the remote from site or you'll leave the good stuff behind for those who don't use VDI.
 

Loco-Digger

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Congrats on digging that French 5 Francs, that's an awesome large silver coin. I dug one 2 years ago and Scrappy pulled one last year I believe.

Mine was also 10 inches deep.
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JackalopeZL1

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Congratulations.

Sorry to hear you you almost walked away from it. (Bad Habits)

Get rid of the remote from site or you'll leave the good stuff behind for those who don't use VDI.

I walked away from the sound. Sounded horrible as well as being a one way signal. Nothing to do with VDI.. I learned long ago with this machine to not trust it :)
 

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JackalopeZL1

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bleeohio

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Get the lawnmower fired up, that is a great find.
 

HuntinDog

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Dang Ken!!
Awesome find.
Guess I should have come up for that hunt!
Keep hunt'n those old sites and you'll hit more.
 

McCDig

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Not to be profane, but you used a detector that has the Latin name for "God" and your coin bears the French version of "God". Who couldn't really use a God-moment in their life today?
 

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JackalopeZL1

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You aren't kidding, 10 minutes after getting to work this morning that was apparent :)
 

Cuyamaca

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Very nice find. What settings, program, coil were you suing?
 

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