🥇 BANNER 1836 Gold $5 piece

[Gary Drayton]

I have found some awesome old finds on the beaches of South Florida recently but none more exciting than this 1836 gold half eagle, classic head type 1834-38. What started out as just another Sunday evening beach hunt turned into an unexpected beach relic hunting adventure covering several more evenings over a three week period. I spend countless hours researching and metal detecting at what I refer to as ugly beaches, places that do not get searched as much as the well known over hunted sites. I hoped that one day this beach hunting strategy would pay off and I would find a site that had never been searched for a long time. That is exactly the situation I found myself in as some terrific sand movement on a less glamorous area of a popular South Florida tourist beach had put relics left over from the Seminole indian wars within my metal detector search coil range. I began finding musket balls and military uniform buttons along with other interesting finds from the 1830s as I gridded the beach every evening until I finally found the ultimate beach hunters dream find, a gold coin. I will never forget the thrill of seeing the gold coin laying on top of the sand and picking it up knowing that I was the first person to hold that gold coin since the 1830s, an awesome end to an awesome beach relic hunt.

Happy Hunting
Gary T. Drayton

 

[Lorrain.]

Gary, that is a fantastic gold coin find!

Congratulations on the find of a lifetime!

Another one for my "wish list"...maybe someday

Keep those treasures comin'!

Lorraine

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

A well deserved banner! Congratulations!

 

[ModernMiner]

That has to be one of the best looking gold coins I've ever seen posted here on Tnet Gary. OUTSTANDING is all I can say. What a beauty!!!! Congrats on a well desreved BANNER.
-MM-

 

[OBN]

Gary does alot of research and foot work, congrads on the Banner Gary..and a little story on the matching cross to garys ring, and it's value


http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2011/03/31311-report.html

 

[Goodyguy]

Congratulations on some great finds!

 

[HISPAN]

Very Nice Gold coin ...congrats for the Banner!

 

[FloridaBill]

Awesome Job GARY

 

[birdman]

Wish list find!! Gold coin=dream find!

 

[treasurepirate1]

i would hate to have been the guy who lost it, $5 was allot more of money back then

 

[Deepdiger60]

Good find that Sov. GT loves the beaches Congrats on making the Banner Jim

 

[umrgolf]

can't see the pics

 

[gwdigger]

Id have a heart attack if I found something like that.

 

[Sir Digs-A-Lot]

Wow!!!

 

[freddy williams]

Awsome find Gary I can almost guarantee if it is from a sunken ship you will be finding more of them, If I would have lost a 5 dollar gold piece back in the 1800's I would have been sifting sand and everything in the area to get my coin back....HH and I am glad it made the banner... I am still in search of my gold coin in the world I hope when I find mine there is a stash of them,, LOL everyones dream..

 

[kane23]

Great find! I don't think it was lost all those years, looks like it was in a bezel. Totally awesome though.

 

[mr_larry]

That is fantastic! Congratulations on such a beautiful coin!!
One day I hope to find one!
Cheers!!!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

STUNNING COIN

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Amazing find, and congrats on the banner Gary!

 

[Lanny in AB]

Freakin' fantastic finds!!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[steelheadwill]

yep, takes a lot of trash diggin to come out with a beauty like that