🥇 BANNER Once in a lifetime find. Double Eagle

Dreams

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Jan 20, 2014
42
356
Occidental, California
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Whites MXT, Fisher F75, Minelab Equinox 800
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All Treasure Hunting
I started hunting a spot that had been a logging camp in the early 1900's. I had been finding axe heads, square nails and many other period items. As it turned out I eventually found several coins over a long period of hunting this place. The first coin I found there was a Barber dime. To date I have found this Double Eagle, a Half Eagle. 3 Morgan dollars, 2 Barber half dollars, 1 Barber quarter, 3 Barber dimes, 1 Buffalo nickel and a 1915 spoon from the Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
 

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Tom_in_CA

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And , of course, found by a Californian. More gold coins get found out west, than back east for some reason. Who needs all those pesky large cents and colonial coppers anyhow, eh ? Haha. Congratz on the banner dude !
 

tamrock

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Jan 16, 2013
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29,768
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All Treasure Hunting
I read in a treasure magazine or someplace that in the early mining camps the loggers who produced the mine props and other needed timber, pretty much kept to themselves, never went to town and saved their earnings in the way of gold coins they stashed away, whereas the miners would go to town and blow all their wages on gambling, drinking, fancy dudd's and cat house's. The theory of the story was old logging camps are a good place to prospect with a metal detector.
 

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Dreams

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Jan 20, 2014
42
356
Occidental, California
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Whites MXT, Fisher F75, Minelab Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
And , of course, found by a Californian. More gold coins get found out west, than back east for some reason. Who needs all those pesky large cents and colonial coppers anyhow, eh ? Haha. Congratz on the banner dude !

Thanks Tom!
 

ShovelinDave

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Jul 11, 2009
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847
North Carolina
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Bandido 2 - umax, Garrett Ace 400, Garrett AT Pro, Garrett AT Pinpointer
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WOW... sounds like you found yourself a dream location. You have found the white whale that we're all chasing. Happy for you that you got a banner out of it. Congrats to you. SD
 

Davers

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Jan 8, 2013
8,127
7,147
N.of , I-285...GA
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Whites Spc xlt & Tesoro Tejon- Now back ...Fisher 1266-X. TRX Pointer. New .Teknetics G2 + . New AT Pro .
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All Treasure Hunting
I started hunting a spot that had been a logging camp in the early 1900's. I had been finding axe heads, square nails and many other period items. As it turned out I eventually found several coins over a long period of hunting this place. The first coin I found there was a Barber dime. To date I have found this Double Eagle, a Half Eagle. 3 Morgan dollars, 2 Barber half dollars, 1 Barber quarter, 3 Barber dimes, 1 Buffalo nickel and a 1915 spoon from the Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

Amazing Find & Finds from that site , Ill assume cleaning out the iron has helped in finding so many Sweet coins.
 

BLK HOLE

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Northern Virginia
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AT MAX/AT PRO/GPX-4500, Equinox 800, Garrett Pro Pointer,NEL Attack Coil, Lesche diggers, and the custom made in the USA Freeloader Pack Mule Pouch!
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All Treasure Hunting
Congrats on the Banner!! What an incredible spot!! Keep swinging!!
 

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Dreams

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Jan 20, 2014
42
356
Occidental, California
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Whites MXT, Fisher F75, Minelab Equinox 800
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To be honest with you, there is very little iron to work around. Several square nails, fence staples and other misc, stuff. I dig every target at this site no matter what the number or tone.
Thanks!
 

Peyton Manning

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Dec 19, 2012
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Sandshark
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I prefer 1800s gold, but I’ll give you a hundy
 

washingtonian

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Sep 26, 2005
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Dude, that is so crazy. I hope I blunder my way into a gold coin someday. Don't know many people that have done it around the Northwest. Great find and congrats on the banner!
 

ANTIQUARIAN

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Apr 24, 2010
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27,385
Upper Canada 🇨🇦
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XP Deus, Lesche Piranha 35 Shovel & 'Garrett Carrot'
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Relic Hunting
Congratulations on achieving your first BANNER on Tnet! :occasion14:
Well done on your 1905 Double Eagle Gold coin find!

Dave
 

Gare

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Dec 30, 2012
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Canton Ohio Area
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Presently using Deus 2's & have Minelabs, Nokta's Tesoro's DEus's Have them all . Have WAY to many need to get rid of some
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What machines did you find the gold and silver coins with ?
 

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Dreams

Jr. Member
Jan 20, 2014
42
356
Occidental, California
🥇 Banner finds
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Whites MXT, Fisher F75, Minelab Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
What machines did you find the gold and silver coins with ?

The coins were found at different times with an MXT, F75 and Equinox 800. The Double Eagle was found with the MXT and the Half Eagle was recovered with the Equinox.
 

Kona Koma

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Nov 13, 2017
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On the Beach
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Minelab Equinox 800
Minelab Quattro
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I can only hope. What a fantastic find. Great job.
 

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