5 coins you have on your realistic bucket list

Ogre1190

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Mar 31, 2015
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Northern Illinois
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White's 5000 D, White's 6DB, White's 5000 D GEB
Sunray X-1 for the ML's, Garrett PP for the White's and a Backhoe
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Those are realistic. Mine are...

Morgan dollar
Flying Eagle cent
Seated Anything!
Barber Half
Large cent
 

jimzz977

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Jun 23, 2012
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4,707
New Mexico
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Minelab Etrac
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All Treasure Hunting
Those are on mine 2018 list. I found my seated half last Nov, but looking barber quarter/half. LG cent southern New Mexico is like finding a gold coin. Let's see
 

Tom_in_CA

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Mar 23, 2007
13,837
10,360
Salinas, CA
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2
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Explorer II, Compass 77b, Tesoro shadow X2
20 cent piece
private mint gold coin
8 reale
Escudo
1901 s quarter in AU-50 condition
 

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Truth

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Apr 13, 2016
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32,142
Abita Springs La....Born in New Orleans
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2
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EQUINOX 800
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Those are on mine 2018 list. I found my seated half last Nov, but looking barber quarter/half. LG cent southern New Mexico is like finding a gold coin. Let's see

Found my 1900 Barber Half last year found a 1875 Seated Dime but turned out to be a counterfeit from 1875.
 

dirtdigginfool

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Mar 8, 2014
3,580
4,841
south central ohio
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At Pro At Max
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
20 cent piece
private mint gold coin
8 reale
Escudo
1901 s quarter in AU-50 condition

20 CENT PIECE!!...I was hoping I would see that one, and there it is, top of Tom's list.

Gold coin
20 cent piece
SEATED.....
Barber half
Trime
.....Ddf.
 

1637

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May 26, 2011
1,766
2,407
tujunga ca
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xlt mxt gmz and now a gmt whites
gold coin
barber dime
barber half
seated anything thanks ogre1190
silver dollar
 

3cylbill

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Jul 2, 2015
847
1,419
s.tier NY
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TESORO, MINELAB, WHITES , GARRETT
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half cent ,any gold coin ,silver dollar ,drape bust dime quarter half any will do and a fugio after fourty years i have been very lucky finding seated coins and indians...
 

Wrecka

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Jun 22, 2017
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Gold Coast Queensland
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Minelab Equinox 800
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Australian Holey Dollar
Australian Gold Sov ( 1/2 Sov would do )
Gothic Crown
1930 Australian Penny
any Silver pre 1900
 

GB1

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Jul 12, 2017
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East TX
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Teknectics eurotek pro
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used a teroso compadre.
Primary Interest:
Other
gold coin
large cent
trime any type
silver dollar
any seated
 

toasted

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Jun 1, 2015
3,437
14,079
Maryland
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5
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Minelab Equinox 600 XP Deus
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Realistic Bucket List
3 cent nickel
Barber half
Ben half
Any Silver dollar
Any Capped Bust

Fantasy Bucket List
US Gold coin
Draped Bust silver
Non Spanish colonial silver coin (British,Dutch, Mass)
Colonial gold coin
 

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BladeRunner2019

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Dec 22, 2013
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1,774
North Carolina
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XP Deus, Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
My semi-realistic list.

Morgan Dollar
Trime
Barber Quarter
Barber Half
Seated Dime

Unrealistic

ANY Gold coin
Spanish Silver (Doesn't appear to be a lot of old Spanish silver in NC)
20 cent piece
Colonial Copper
Flying Eagle
 

JackalopeZL1

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Nov 22, 2014
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Tennessee And California
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CTX 3030, Deus 2, Soon to be manticore
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I will play

Well I am in a Ca gold rush area so a gold coin is realistic :)

#1 US gold coin
#2 V nickel(white whale)
#3 Trime
#4 Seated quarter
#5 Morgan Dollar
 

IDXMonster

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Mar 16, 2014
770
1,278
New Glarus,WI
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Current….Deus2, ExplorerSEPro, Explorer2, IDXPro-M
Past….Deus1, CTX3030, Equinox800, eTrac, Compadre
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
No particular order

1) Large Cent -Not even sure we had them in La.

2) Seated Dime

3) Barber Quarter (completes my set)

4) U.S Silver Dollar

5) Seated Quarter


I have found all on your list,and you’ll be in heaven one coin at a time as you find them too! It will happen,you have to believe it. My top 5 “wish listers”...

2 cent
Trime
Bust anything
Gold coin
Peace dollar(already have Morgan)

The funny thing is...you have these coins and the others you mentioned in your area. It may not seem like it,but you do. Targeting those oldest of old places and spending ALOT of time hunting will get you through that list. When you knock the last one off,you’ll make ANOTHER list,and then work through that as well. There are SO many coins out there in the ground it’s nearly inconceivable that you WONT find what you’re looking for. You have to believe...
 

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