Thanks to all for your responses. And, thank you for making me understand hanging on to my first gold find. I will and my wife seems to have a keen since of ownership also. It cleaned up very nice. I will have it appraised so I can apply it's value to the expense of the detector. Maybe it will cover the cost of the wireless speakers that cam yesterday.
The area I'm currently hunting is a park established in 1994, so no older coins. It has two sand volleyball courts, so I thought about jewelry. I haven't gotten a hit there yet, but I'll keep trying.
I'm excited and thankful you guys are here with a bunch of encouragement. I hope I can return the favor.
Have a great weekend and Happy Hunting.
First finds of anything is great, first gold finds are the most awesome so CongratZ!
I specialize in jewelry hunting, gold specifically so if you want to find more this is my advice.
Dig all signals, or at least all the solid clear ones and even the ones that come in at trash.
I have found 23 gold targets and every one came in at places and numbers that are trash for me 99.999% of the time.
Areas like foil and tabs.
I have found a few at the nickel and zinc areas, too, but again not exactly at the same numbers where real nickels or zinc pennies come in but at numbers where trash like can slaw lives.
Many find great jewelry in the sand in those volleyball courts you mentioned but I never have.
On the other hand the area AROUND those courts can hold many great targets and my most favorite and productive area to find gold is also another court...basketball courts.
Think about it...players take off their jewelry and place them in piles with their shirts and other belongings and place them in areas around these court sites...and then many forget that they did so when they pick up their stuff to go this jewelry can and does fall out.
I know this happens because I have found 9 gold rings around basketball courts in just the last year or so since I started targeting these sites.
