🥇 BANNER After 21 years of detecting it FINALLY happened.....1st Gold Coin!!!!

Chuck Norris

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Apr 17, 2017
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Deus Power!!
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Yup.....that's right.....after 21 years of detecting and digging what seems like a bazillion holes I finally popped my first gold coin!!! I won't bore you all with a long story.....I'll keep it simple....

Chuck Norris kicked the mountain's butt and took its gold....then the mountain came back for more and I took its silver too....the end

This is where I was hunting...
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1925-D 2 1/2 dollar Indian.....its a little worn and has a few scratches and dings but I don't care
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The rest of the coins from this area
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Went home and showed my wife and then my buddy called so I met him at an old school yard for a little spin.....didn't really care what I found...but found a few pesky wheats, a Buffalo nickel and a cocaine spoon...old dog tag and ball button are from the earlier woods hunt
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Got a tribe if injuns......the HARD way....just the way Chuck Norris likes it :laughing7:
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Thanks for looking guys & gals.......now get out there and go find you some
 

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CRUSADER

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May 25, 2007
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i found that in my first month of detecting
Your taking the piss. You should give up & go home. Dad & I have had well over 10,000 Roman bronze coins & I forget how many silver (several hundred). But even after 40ish combined years of hunting we still need a Roman Gold or Saxon, both in the top 5 Wish List! I'll take it any-day - CONGRATS GOLDEN BALLS>
 

jimbonito58

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May 6, 2016
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Extra large Congrats to ya ..
 

Kurios1

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I want one of those too. Maybe today I'll get mine. Great recovery and story mate. Congrats on the BANNER find of a lifetime.:headbang:
 

Oct 5, 2014
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Congratualtions on the killer hunt with a gold surprise...Banner find all the way! :occasion14:
 

Calabash Digger

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Chuck you did good congrats!
 

smokeythecat

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Nov 22, 2012
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Gorgeous, and I see you already got the banner. I love the way they come out of the ground! I still need to find my first US gold coin.
 

the_mad_cladder

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Jan 2, 2015
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Awesome coin. I would have broke my neck trying to do a back flip. Congrats
 

strick

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Feb 28, 2005
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Double back flip! congrats on the rare gold coin!


strick
 

Loco-Digger

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Jun 16, 2014
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Welcome to the "BANNER Find Club" Chuck. Well deserved, nice to see some new blood posted up top.
 

NJ Marty

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Jun 7, 2008
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Minelab Explorer XS Minelab E-trac
Congrats,you deserve that gold coin as you found the only virgin spot left on that tick infested mountain.
You are right about that place being pounded, here is a cool story. And old timer I met about 15 years ago told me back in the mid 1960s hunting that mountain when detectors got good him and his buddies would have to go back to the car at least once a hunt. They were so loaded with silver coins from the fields.
 

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