gold coins

[whitesid]

my vote is "never found one yet"
but if you did find one can you post a picture so we can all see your find.

 

[TORRERO]

I found 2 Arabic Gold coins while living and detecting in Spain.
Traded one up for a Metal Detector here in the US, and sold the other to a guy
in Spain for about $400.00 I think...

If its a stateside gold coin your refering too.....
Well I fall in the same place as all the rest of you guys...

 

[ZoSo71]

Hmm. No gold coins yet.

Maybe someday...<sigh>

ZoSo71

 

[Trez]

heres mine..........took 6 months
1698 Charles II - Mexico Mint
fell off a Galleon.............

 

[U.K. Brian]

Few gold and silver both hoard and cache.

 

[EDDE]

i hate you guys

 

[Jeffro]

I wish-

This one about made me mess my shorts though

 

[Blackjack77]

i hate you guys

I second that!!!

 

[TheDetectorist]

i hate you guys

I second that!!!

The motion is carried. We all hate you guys with the gold!

J/K. I think alot of us are cleaning the drool off our keyboards though.

TD

 

[Gribnitz]

That big ole honker dropped out of my pocket Grub, thanks for finding it. I'll send my address

 

[nc-joe]

I found a fake gold roman coin on the beach in Melbourne, FL. Does that count?

 

[Mainedigger]

Here's some of mine
Ole Grubstake

WOW!!!! my chin hit the keyboard when it dropped and now there is a big puddle of drool all over the keyboard as well.....VERY NICE finds...looks like you;ve put ALOT of work into hunting and have been rewarded nicely!!!! CONGRATS!!! gotta admit I;m a little green with envy.... well, alright....alot green!! .
I, on the other hand, fall into the category along with most others....zero gold coins thus far....

 

[skierbob]

Ole Grubby: you da man with the golden touch. Shoulda called yourself Goldfinger.

O.K. Keven. I'm gonna tie some pics together for you. Just happened to have my new digital camera along with me when I lucked on to this discovery.

Smartfind target:

In ground:

Out of hole:

Open at home:

Fronts and backs.

 

[whitesid]

Ole Grubby: you da man with the golden touch. Shoulda called yourself Goldfinger.

O.K. Keven. I'm gonna tie some pics together for you. Just happened to have my new digital camera along with me when I lucked on to this discovery.

looks like someone hid them recently.

 

[Farmercal]

If you count organized hunts, one. If you don't, none!

 

[Mainedigger]

Bob....2 at once? WOW!! did you ahve to change your pants when you got home? I know I would have had to.... Congrats....awesome find!!!

 

[Night Stalker]

WOWW SkierBob - those are certainly proof-set quality!

 

[tallpaul]

nice coins, wish i had kept some of mine now, love to see them still turning up thoe,

 

[Nick in NEPA]

I found a fake gold roman coin on the beach in Melbourne, FL. Does that count?

Better than me.

 

[THing4CSA]

Hi All My TH'ing Friends
My first and only Gold coin came after my 24th year. Using my Whites XLT with a BlueMax 900 I searched a known Civil War encampment. I swept a deer trail and after my first CSA button I received a one way beep that lit my LCD screen as a penny/dime and then went blank. I kept sweeping the site with the same results; I first thought my XLT was going bad but as the signal was always the same decided to excavate to see for sure what I had. I cut a nine inch diameter plug six inch deep and checked it for the target and there was nothing in the plug. I again swept the hole and again the momentary beep; screen lit up as a penny/dime and then blank again. I again stuck my digging tool (M-7 US Army bayonet) into the ground and 'clunk' I had to cut a larger hole as I had hit something solid. Well the solid item was a large brick which I swept with my XLT just to make sure it was not inside and it was not. I rechecked the hole and again I get a beep, my screen lights up and goes blank again. I cut my second nine inch plug at about five inches deep (this makes a total of about 13.5 inches) pulling the plug I remove it from the hole and flip it over; there right in front of me is the single most beautiful gold coin I have ever seen in all my years of TH'ing. What I had found was an 1854 Type I $1 Gold dollar. Check out the pictures.
Remember; dig all those faint targets and in with all the junk will be the gem find that you will remember forever!
Dave Mork
'Digger-Dave'
THing4CSA
PS: Remember; Don't leave it in the ground!