🥇 BANNER Gold Coin at the Beach

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And I thought beaches were only good for sinkers and clad.

Who would have thought?

Anyway I went to beaches in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia in the last week. I visited six different spots. Most were pretty clean, unfortunately. I got no jewelry whatsoever. Once upon a time ago I had taken my small boat along the bay and the Potomac (not telling where this was found, sorry!), and had spotted some conceivable house collapses from the boat and from beaching it and finding some early glass and stuff along the banks. Well, over the last few days I went to three beaches. The first one was known for shark's teeth and I didn't do very well, got a few small ones. Second beach has larger teeth but I only found a few Hemiprisis teeth and the "fake" one I posted on previously.

The last beach had been hit by another MD'er. So I went to plan "B" and started looking closer to the parking lot and trail leading to the beach. I then started getting pull tabs, aluminum foil, a couple sinkers, and just a few pieces of clad. I then found one silver US coin about the size of a dime, but it was so far gone from the salt water it crumbled to almost dust! It must have been old, in order to do that. The silver coins we get at beaches are ususally corroded beyond redemption.

I was getting ready to leave and decided to use the Deus' small size loop to detect between a rock and a hard spot. I got a decent but aluminum foil range, but dug it anyway, I generally do this. Look what popped up. Of course, this was the day I had left my cell at my house, so I felt almost nekked without it and couldn't do an in situ pic. The following day I did get some nice pics from a nearby site in Virginia, here's some cool cliffs!

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Toy from a nearby spot: IMG_0842.webp

Sharks tooth from a visit a few years ago: IMG_0841.webp

Cliffs along the river, about 20 miles away: IMG_0843.webpIMG_0844.webp

Since Deus did that newest upgrade it rocks in salt water.
 

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EUREKA!!! (Banner!). Congratulation my friend!!
 

That's what I love about this hobby, you never know what you're going to dig up. Congratulations on a very sweet coin find.
 

You sure get around girl!! Another! Amazing! Treasure!..:notworthy:

Now you see why the only thing that excites me..is gold.:hello2:
 

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This spot has old gold written all over it... Those type of pilings were used late 1800's.
Your going to need a submersion water machine, long handle scoop and sifter. And hunt deep..
 

Man Smokey, that is AWESOME. What a beautiful coin! Congratulation Sir!
 

OBN, while not a park, the place in the picture is totally off limits to a detector, and to the north (upside) in the picture is a state park and no detecting there either.

This is where the bigger sharks teeth came from. It was taken the day AFTER I found the coin. I had left the camera home that day.
 

I'm with OBN....that pic gets me excited....looks promising smokey. Good luck !!
 

Great find. Congratulations Smokey
 

Congrats on an excellent coin Smokey ! Banner from me.
 

What a huge find such a small coin can be. Congrats!!!
 

A REAL NICE ONE DOLLAR GOLD COIN YOU HAVE THERE.
 

Definitely Banner! Gobsmacked
 

Well that didn't take long at all. Congratulations on another Banner find :)
 

good job smokey!
 

Words to the wise: Do NOT skip the odd foil signals.
 

Grats, Smokey.

Please tell us what a standard foil signal is compared to an odd foil signal! lol
 

It's the more solid type. Only heard on some types of machines. For real. Some don't have the tones to hear them correctly and VDI's should not be relied on all that much, they should just be a starting point. If you have one of those machines where one tone or volume level fits all, you will have to dig everything. There are so many machines out there now, new and old, I don't know which do which anymore.
 

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