EPIC Hunt finds rare GOLD Indian Princess & Rare SILVER Lady Liberty

[Cal_Cobra]

Saying I had an epic weekend would be an understatement! I loaded the latest Equinox firmware update to try the new FE2/0 iron program, and it did not disappoint!

I've posted about trip reports from this site several times over the years. It's always been a fun site IMO, you just never know what you'll dig, and it dates back to the early 1800's with history into the 20th century. It saw it's share of the Spanish, Mexicans, Emigrants, and Americans. It's getting difficult, lots of flat iron still left, but good finds have been thinning out, easy finds have been gone for years. TomCA won't even hunt there any more.

This trip turned out to be absolutely EPIC! Unbelievable really, because there have been trips where neither Tom nor I have dug a single coin at this site, so to dig five period coins in one trip was astounding.

Now if these were just five common 1800's coins, I would've left there an extremely happy camper, but two out of the five turned out to be astounding finds!

An 1865-S Seated Liberty Dime AND a 1856-S INDIAN PRINCESS $1 GOLD PIECE!!! I am absolutely over the moon from this hunt!

I got all the coins on video, if you have a chance, take a look:



EDIT: Added group shot:





Without further ado:

Right after she was dug and I just ran some bottled water over her in the field:





Rinsed off under the faucet back in my room (no rubbing!!!):







1865-S Seated Liberty Dime:

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All the Seated Liberty Dimes together:



1887 IHP:





Thanks for looking!!

GL&HH,
Cal <<<<<<<< THE ORIGINAL CAL

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some excellent coins. That $1.00 gold coin is a beauty.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Wheres the pictures? It's my understanding that Banner is not an option unless hosted on Tnet?

FIXED!

Thanks for letting me know that, I uploaded the pics to Tnet.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

You've got my banner vote. Both of those coins had a very low mintage. The Gold 1Dollar was only about 27500 Minted. Amazing~!

Thanks, I had no idea the 1865-S Seated Liberty dime was a good one when I dug it, was a nice surprise when I checked PCGS and the $1 gold dollar, I about fell over when I pulled it up on PCGS.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

BANNER! WOW Wow Wow Wow!!!

Thanks for looking

 

[Dan(NM)]

Super hunt, just voted for banner, most excellent finds!!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Hi wow awesome finds. Congrats on the nice gold coin

Thanks, it's a weekend I won't soon forget

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Holy smokes! Congrats! A lot of gold coins coming out of Cali lately. Banner vote!

Thank you! My friend TomCA has a theory that the majority of gold coins dug by detecting came from CA due to the influx of people during the gold rush and it's ensuing expansion that resulted from the gold rush. Don't know if that's true, but it's certainly possible.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

outstanding!

Thank you!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

You flat out killed it!!! Very nice!

Thanks, and I love your cuff link, awesome kind of history we'll never dig out west

 

[Cal_Cobra]

A hunt you'll never forget - congrats on the fantastic finds !

You're not kidding, thanks

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Super hunt, just voted for banner, most excellent finds!!

Thanks Dan, appreciate it

 

[toasted]

You west coast guys get all the gold coins and key dates on your early sites. Gotta love a site that continues to produce for many years too

 

[Steve in PA]

Beautiful coins. They musta shunned copper out there in the gold fields

 

[NoThisIsPatrick]

Banner and a half! Holy smokes!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer old coin shooting and FANTASTIC Gold coin!

Banner Vote in!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Awesome hunt with incredible rare coins! Did you swing over the same areas you had before, but the F2 program helped filter out the iron? Or just gave a cleaner more easily recognizable signal? I have the new software, just haven’t tried F2 yet. Congrats!!!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

You west coast guys get all the gold coins and key dates on your early sites. Gotta love a site that continues to produce for many years too

Yeah but you east coasters have largies and busts jumping out of every kiddie lot and park in town, so I guess it's a trade off Thanks for looking &#55357;&#56397;

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Beautiful coins. They musta shunned copper out there in the gold fields

Thanks! Not sure if they shunned it, at this same site I found two copper fractional reales from the early 1800's, just a different mix of coins then the east coast I suppose.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Banner and a half! Holy smokes!

Thanks &#55357;&#56397;

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Killer old coin shooting and FANTASTIC Gold coin!

Banner Vote in!

Thanks, it was a weekend I won't soon forget. Thanks for the vote Professor