🥇 BANNER 1859D GOLD $1 Woop!

[Nana40]

Here ya go, Quindy and Judie.
So yesterday after the storms, my buddies and I went out for a hunt. Seems summer is finally coming to an end and we're ready! The temps were perfect and the soil was as soft as sweet potato pie. Tin foil, nails and 22 shells...make sure and dig 'em. About an hour into our hunt and after digging many of the previous mentioned, I got another low reading on my MXT with a loud tone. Four inches down under the roots of a cedar tree. I dig the hole and see a tiny gold looking, round something or other. My first thought was play money? Nah, not here. Then how about a foreign coin of some sort? Nah..I don't think so. I turn it over and see 1 Dollar. What! No way. I jump up and run to where my buddies are. We look it over, see the date and we all are in shock as to what it is. Oh happy day! That coin waited 155 years for me to find it. I have to wonder who lost such a beautiful coin. Wonder if there's another? lol
D ain't for Denver. Only 4,952 minted and I got one! Woop! I'ma happy gal.

 

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[Silver Tree Chaser]

Congrats on a fantastic find! I'm from New England where gold coins finds are extremely rare. To find a gold coins is great, but to get one with such a low mintage figure - that's just FANTASTIC!

 

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[chkn]

You lucky dawg you!! It's amazing how it never looses its luster!!!

 

[Gold Maven]

Awesome, find of a lifetime!

How about some close up pics.

I would hunt that spot to death....GL

 

[park pirate]

That is one sweet gold coin..Congrats to ya..

 

[Davers]

Congratulations On the Great Coin..

Those are some small Coins , & likely many lost in their time & your right IMO , you have to dig about everything to find one.

Your only the 2ed person I have ever heard of who dug a Dahlonega Minted Gold Coin.

'I hear that NE Georgia Gold is about as pure as it gets .' ' Tho I know they were only 90% ,as minted'

Davers

 

[Keppy]

All i can say is…

 

[wvdirtdigger]

Absolutely positively amaizing! Congrats on a lifetime find!

 

[glassrelics]

WOW!!! That must have came in real low on the VDI scale. I know a lot of people who would just walk right over that as trash. AWESOME FIND!!

 

[MUDSLINGER]

by gosh a truely significant find. it really is rare that a 1 dollar gold coin pops up. more should be found but with discrimination it might happen more often
than not we pass on digging foil signal. because the coin is so small i would guess a great many were lost. so there should be plenty in the ground to find.
but yours is a low minted number which is even more of a thrill. you rocked it girl congrats!!!!

 

[DFW_THer]

15+ years of digging and I still can't even imagine finding a gold coin, LET ALONE A KEY DATE GOLD COIN OMG OMG Congratulations. Enjoy that thing.

 

[SGT Claddy]

lets see just a pic of the coin really nice find congrats

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Congrats for your persistence on staying on track to finding such a goodie and of course for digging all that trash, who knows how much of it, had to have been a lots over the years, that yielded up such a fine gold coin !! A just reward and congrats on the Banner also =)

 

[Devonrex]

beautiful 1 dollar gold coin with an ultra rare mint mark!!! I am happy for you!

 

[JeffInMass]

You SHOULD be happy! Congrats on that most amazing find!!

-- Jeff --

 

[coinz]

way to go Nana, keep it up. coinz

 

[Nana40]

Thanks, ya'll! It took me NINE years to find a gold coin. I'm getting old(er), my back is crap and to bend over gives me heartburn like crazy sometimes, but if I have the opportunity to dig another nine years, you bet I will! haha! I only wish I had started hunting a lot sooner. Who knew this could be so much fun? I love it, and my family knows that when Nana is digging relics, she's happy.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Congrats!

 

[nscrcr8z]

That's beautiful! !!!

 

[AU Seeker]

A well deserved congratulations, nothing like finding a gold coin and a rare one at that, to put a smile on your face!!

 

[rodarian]

I'm blown away by that coin. Gorgeous!!