🥇 BANNER My first gold coin, and it only took 22 years………

JonG

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My first gold coin, and it only took 22 years………

I just spent a couple of days trudging around an old Air Force friends property south of Greenville, SC. It’s always produced some good finds. Last week I stopped by on my way home from a trip, and he gave me an arrowhead he found about 10 feet from where I was digging last time I was there. I took a couple of days off to look for arrowheads, but still took my Eagle II with me. After a day of arrowhead hunting, I had a couple of nice ones and a pocket full of pieces. Yesterday I started out looking for arrowheads, and then started swinging the detector around 10am. Even though the temperature was 90°+, I trudged on, and am glad I did. After 22+ years of treasure hunting, my first gold coin!!

An 1854 $1 piece. It’s beat up, bent, dented, scratched and has seen better days, but it’s still a beauty to me!! The 1853 Quarter looks like it had been in a fire.

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Metal Magnet

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AWESOME!!!!! Amazing finds.
 

Echoplex

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Wow! Major congrats to you, sir! Did you find it with the MXT? If so, what kind of VDI were you getting?

Also congrats on the other items. That's a very nice haul.
 

The Dirt Pirate

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Awesome finds.
 

xr7ator

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That'll do, very nice! I started in the mid 80's so does this mean I'm due? ( I HOPE SO!!!!!!)

Thanks for sharing and if I were you, I'd be back out there today!
 

beerguy

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That is great.

I am just about 22 years into this hobby.

Can't wait!
 

Steve in PA

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Congrats on the Gold coin and the seated quarter. Nice shoe buckle frame as well. The dog piece looks like an old watch fob with the slot broken off.
 

JerV3

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Congrats

Those are some nice finds. I've been hunting 22 yrs also and have yet to find a gold coin after recovering 10s of thousands of old coins. It's like they never carried them. One day it will show

HH Jer
 

DirtStalker

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Great Find Jon. Glad to see Greenville County giving up the Gold. Same County but No Gold for me. Congratulations.
Banner Vote.
 

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CASPER-2

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ScubaDetector

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Very nice couple of coins. Banner vote from me also. Congrats on a find of a lifetime.
 

Tommy G

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That would have been a great hunt without the gold coin, but with that, you blew it out of the water! Congrats and thanks for sharing!
 

Showtime2385

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MUDSLINGER

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I always wonder why more of these little beauties are not found, they are sure small enough to lose through a tiny hole in the pocket. And the denomination is small enough that change could be easily give back for a purchase. Or was it that people in the east did not carry them much?
 

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