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.

 

[bk]

I found my first (and only) gold coin within the first three years of detecting. So statistically, I should have found ten by now. Statistics aren't very accurate with only one data point though, so I must have just been lucky.

 

[Nick in NEPA]

Here's some of mine
Ole Grubstake

I notice that there are some Anglo/Saxon gold coins in your mix(very impressive). Did you detect them in the UK or did you buy them? If you detected them, how did you deal with the "Treasure Trove" laws?

 

[U.K. Brian]

There was a question on the U.K. Detector Net the other week re gold finds. Not on that forum myself but it seems not many have found gold and of those that have, with one or two exceptions, have only found two or three which seems pretty poor.
No reason not to declare finds in the U.K. as you either get them back or the value (granted I've had had finds that dealers have offered double the initial Treasure Trove valuation).
Treasure is coins/items over 300 years old with at least 10% gold or silver and at least two of them in the area. If less than 10% precious metal then there must be at least 10 to come under the provisions. So you can find many single gold coins in different/distant areas without worry.