🥇 BANNER Gold Coin!!

[cerebus]

After a long weekend of coaching soccer I managed to get out for a hunt. While walking to the main site I decided to swing through what had always seemed to be a modern trashy area. First signal, gold Victoria head was looking back at me!
It’s a Newfoundland 2$ gold coin turned into a love token. The condition held up very well being on a salt water beach for about 100 years! As the date is gone, it can be narrowed down to either 1882 or 1888 as it is the ntd3 variety.
My first gold coin and I’m still shocked where it was found!

 

[GB1]

wow very nice find banner for sure

 

[Argentium]

A wonderful find ! Few of us will find a gold coin , the love token makes it more special in my estimation !

 

[Carolina Tom]

That’s just too cool. The engraving just makes it something so personal. Whomever lost that, was certainty bummmed. Well done sir. Banner item IMO.

 

[Scott from MD]

Wow , top of the bucket list find. Awesome.

 

[Vhoov]

That's awesome

 

[Javadroid]

Interesting and exquisite - a beautiful piece of treasure mate - congrats and welcome to the gold coin club!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer Gold love token (made into a button?) coin!

 

[Hawks88]

Awesome gold find. Congrats.

 

[Truth]

A gold coin love token......it doesn’t get better than that. BANNER

CONGRATULATIONS

 

[washingtonian]

Wow. The love token side of that coin is. beautiful. Nice job!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Very nice, but no way of knowing when gold is lost.

 

[RelicMedic]

Best of both world's! Amazing find. Banner for sure!

 

[digging440yrs]

That's why we do what we do--Great find !!

 

[cerebus]

Very nice, but no way of knowing when gold is lost.

I have no idea when it was lost of course, but the coin itself has to be dated either 1882 or 1888.

 

[Shakakka]

Banner as far as I'm concerned! Love the detail on that love token side. Wow.

Huge congrats, brother!

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice, but no way of knowing when gold is lost.

Absolutely, always a tough one. But there are guesstimates of when love tokens were in and out of fashion. I’ve read love tokens that were kept were often made into jewelry such as pendants and earrings. I was lucky to have found a love token made from an 1859 dime which I found as an earring. If one is kept and made into a keepsake, the timeline can never be determined.

To the OP - phenomenal find and an easy banner in my book!! Brilliant

 

[Iron Patch]

I'm just glad what will likely be your 2nd banner didn't happen here!

 

[stealthycat]

one of a kind - fantastic

 

[cerebus]

I'm just glad what will likely be your 2nd banner didn't happen here!

If I was an evil man......it would of been worth temp planting on a hunt with you hahaha.