🥇 BANNER GOLD COIN...BOOYEAH!!!!

romeo-1

romeo-1

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It only took 8 years but this afternoon I found my first gold coin. I had a friend down to detect some "old faithful" areas as the "good" sites are still not available. This is the same friend who found the 2 cannonballs on my site the last time he was here to detect...same site too! The day started pretty slow and I was somewhat disappointed that the sites I had been hoping for were not available. I did have the backup plan and we executed that. Phil started with a couple coppers and I with a button and a musket ramrod thimble. Phil called me over to pinpoint a target in his hole and when I was walking away I got a nice solid signal. It was pinpointing about four inches down so I cut a nice wide plug. I flipped it over and just about freaked out! There was some profanity involved when I saw the distinct gleam of gold on the plug! I grabbed a couple insitu shots and id'd it as a Victorian 1870 Sovereign! Some knuckle head in the past soldered a loop on it to wear on a chain which was his downfall and my fortune!
 

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hamiddetecting

hamiddetecting

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Nice!!
 

HISPAN

HISPAN

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Mar 15, 2009
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yes! Banner coin!! :icon_thumright: .... it's amazing how you could identify parts of the rifle.
 

Rick (Nova Scotia)

Rick (Nova Scotia)

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WOW !

Somehow I'm not too surprised. You've found some great stuff.
I can only hope to gold in my hole someday, but probably won't put it on my top ten list.
 

Beach Papa

Beach Papa

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The individual who sold my parents their house, purchased a gold chain with 10 - $20 US gold pieces soldered to it. It was purchased from a gypsie for the sum of $200. Needless to say he stole it. He was a little shady so I assume he told the gypsie that the coins were worthless because of the solder and he bought the coins at face value. This was back in 1962, so gold was not worth quite what it is today. Anyway, he came back to our house asking if I had seen a brown glass bottle in any of the outbuildings. Seems it contained a nitric acid solution that would dissolve the low karat gold used in the solder but would not affect the higher karet gold in the coin. I showed him where the bottle was and he went away a happy camper. Of course dissolving low karet gold is exactly what happens when we do an acid test on the gold we find. Anyway, I think you can restore the coin by dissolving the soldered loop. Super find by the way and let us know if you try the acid removal of the solder. Papa
 

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SNF101480

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Great job on finding the gold coin!
 

Deepdiger60

Deepdiger60

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Great find Congrats on the Banner !! Jim
 

DIGDIG

DIGDIG

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Great half sovereign! For whatever reason they made jewlery out of alot of gold coins in the day. I've seen people de-solder the loop to restore the coin, at least it wasn't holed. If you choose to do something like that talk to someone that knows numistics to see what damage might be done to the value of the coin, if I had to guess I think you will most likely keep your first gold coin just the way it was found. Be careful though- gold coins can be addictive.
 

steelheadwill

steelheadwill

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Vickies lookin good :occasion14:

I thought my goldie was a token or a plastic toy at first sight,
cause no, it can't be real....
not till I picked it up did I believe.
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great ID on the musket parts, I saved your diagram. Big Congrats!!!
 

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swamp yankee

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Always a GREAT thrill seeing a yeller coin in the plug,may you see many more in the future!....
 

GioTheGreek

GioTheGreek

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It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! Congrats Romeo!

A gold Sticky Vicky! (I have the monarchs all nicknamed... Sticky Vicky, Fast Eddie, Old Georgius, Georgeous Georgius... Thin Lizzy)

Amaaaaazing!!!!! Holy crap...
 

Gunrunner61

Gunrunner61

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Awesome!!!!!........................HH
 

Lanny in AB

Lanny in AB

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That's a super-sweet find!! Nicely done.

All the best,

Lanny
 

pickaway

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Great find, congrats...
 

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