Gold Coins

[Gare]

Those of you who found gold coins are our envy. If you don't mind would you ALL post a short story about what tyep of area you were hunting and maybe some details about the machine used ? I know i would like to know more about place types where gold coins are found ?

 

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[A2coins]

This outta be good Id like to hear there tales and where also

 

[Gare]

Might just help others

 

[A2coins]

Ill tell ya Ive seen many a gold coin find on this site you can also look under the Banner forum and see some info on them and where but it would be nice to have em on one thread tales of lore gallore

 

[Gare]

COME ON 175 views NOT one clue as to where to look. Am not asking for locations just types of locations PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[IDXMonster]

I’d imagine the best chance would be had at VERY old home sites that have a minimum amount of conductive trash.

 

[Ziggy-Grimm]

I found one on eBay not too long ago. I discovered it in my mailbox in a plain unmarked envelop a few days later.

 

[Megalodon]

COME ON 175 views NOT one clue as to where to look. Am not asking for locations just types of locations PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You might have better luck asking for advice on finding pull tabs. Many of us have expert knowledge on finding them with decades of experience, and are happy to help.

And thank you to tnet for not including a "not helpful" button for responding to posts...

 

[SultansOfSwing]

I havent personally found one or seen one dug, but I'll gibe you two tidbits of info I have.

One local guy has found 7 I think. He finds then around the front steps of a home during yard permissions. They get dropped while someone is digging for their house keys.

Second, someone had posted how he finds them. He looks up property deed transactions, and then looks for what the buyer paid the seller with. If it was gold coins, he obtains that permission for that property. He does thus because now he knows the new owner carries gold coins and increases his chances of finding one.

 

[gunsil]

Gold coins are just like anything else but rarer to find. They are found on beaches, in school yards, parks, private property, anywhere people have gathered. Many have been holed or had things soldered to them for jewelry purposes, some are found in non-soldered coin holders for jewelry use. Some are just plain old dropped coins. Since there were and are a lot less people with gold coins and jewelry than the masses the coins are hard to find. I found my gold $1 piece at a girlfriend's mother's house almost fifty years ago, have never found another. I'd say the large majority of detecting folks never find one in their lives, they are just rare. Of course every time I put my coil to the ground I think I will find another.

 

[Nevada Prospector]

Hi Gare,
This seems like a good topic so I will give what little info that I have. I have never found a gold coin but my father found three. I think that I posted about it before but here goes. Dad found two gold coins on the welcome mat to the local hotel(in Northern California) one evening, this was years ago when they weren't so scarce. He posted the find in the local paper but no one claimed it. Can you imagine that? He also found a $20 gold coin in his orchard while planting something one day. The ranch that he had bought was quite old with two log buildings. Just to clarify, his ranch wasn't anywhere close to a gold bearing area. He never found one with a detector, just by visual.
A friend of my brothers found a $5 gold coin in an empty tin can in North Western Nevada. He had located an old can dump near a hard rock mine and was cleaning it up. None of these finds were with a detector unfortunately.

 

[smokeythecat]

1) ocean beach
2) Civil War camp

 

[islamoradamark]

found mine in 5 feet of water, while detecting at a beach where people swim.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Hi Gare,
This seems like a good topic so I will give what little info that I have. I have never found a gold coin but my father found three. I think that I posted about it before but here goes. Dad found two gold coins on the welcome mat to the local hotel(in Northern California) one evening, this was years ago when they weren't so scarce. He posted the find in the local paper but no one claimed it. Can you imagine that? He also found a $20 gold coin in his orchard while planting something one day. The ranch that he had bought was quite old with two log buildings. Just to clarify, his ranch wasn't anywhere close to a gold bearing area. He never found one with a detector, just by visual.
A friend of my brothers found a $5 gold coin in an empty tin can in North Western Nevada. He had located an old can dump near a hard rock mine and was cleaning it up. None of these finds were with a detector unfortunately.

I hope you have followed up on that lead...the gold coin your father found in the orchard..

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Out west in the areas that were active during the 1850's...gold nuggets and coins were the normal currency in use at the time.
There were not many banks out in the wilderness..fortunes were won and lost on a daily basis. Stage stops..hotels..and gold camps of that era seem to be productive areas when it comes to gold coins being found.
Some trusted businesses acted as banks.


Those are areas I would suggest concentrating on.

Detectors made specifically for finding gold...say the Fisher Gold Bug II work well for finding gold coins.
Nugget hunters have been known to find gold coins when detecting around gold rush areas.
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I guess this is the closest we will get to seeing a dirty picture of Lady Liberty?




At least I'm told that's what it's supposed to look like.

 

[Gare]

How about telling us what coins you found ?

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

zHow about telling us what coins you found ?

Me? There's one rule applicable to this situation...
Rule #1 : I'm number one.

I did mention some good places to look and a good detector to use.
All metal mode and the highest sensitivity conditions will permit.
When detecting occupied areas heavy with targets, choose the smallest coil offered with your detector.

I've not found many gold coins in many locations, but many of the gold coins I've heard about being found were around gold camps..saloons..hotels...stage stops..ect.

Tom in CA (no longer posting here) posted up numerous finds that fit that category.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Actually I feel the very best opportunity are stories like what was mentioned earlier about someone digging up a single coin while planting a tree.

I spoke with a local guy that followed up on a family story regarding recovered stolen stage coach loot.
An agreement was made with the landowner which resulted in a handful or more of gold coins being found..something about the coins being recovered scattered across the ground originally when the robber was caught.

Another cache being found in an outhouse..more from a street digout in front of a saloon...

 

[RW]

Only gold coin I ever found was in a panda coin ring. Eyeball find at a ropeswing swimming hole. Was probably 1989-90. I was even more of an idiot then than I am now, pawned it for $55 IIRC. No help to anyone lol...

 

[ARC]

of the greatest gold coin find... visually even... off a trail in the woods on a private property.



Saddle Ridge Hoard

Size
1,427 coins

Created
1847 to 1894

Discovered
Gold Country, Sierra Nevada, California in February 2013

Present location
Tiburon, California

The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to identify a treasure trove of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada, California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. In total, the hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the US.

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