🥇 BANNER GOLD!

[MSpeiser]

Man oh man, what a day. Had my former supervisor over for some digging. Got a civil war button and token at site 1. Site 2 gave up a whole lotta stuff. Wheat cents, fatty indian, spoons, utensil handles, buttons, and low and behold, a 1880 near uncirculated $5 gold piece!!!
He told me to calm down and not have a heart attack on him.
HH

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

It came up 64. I run 8 khz and id norm off. I had dug several shotgun shells that day that read the same numbers.

That's very interesting... I usually dial my program down to 12lhz and will lower the disc to '0', this way I hear everything, depending on the soil conditions on the site of course.

Last year I returned to a site a number of times that was dug by archeologists 2 years ago, but I usually end up very frustrated by the amount of iron that's been churned up. I detected this site for almost 4 years prior to the arkies showing up, the site is now slated for residential development. Here in Ontario it's mandatory by law that an archeological assessment must be done prior to any type of land development. I'm always willing to try different settings if it will help 'clear out' some of the iron signals and help me hear the non-ferrous better. I've made some very cool finds here since the arkies left and I just know there's still more yet to be found!

Here are a couple of pics of the site before and during the arkie dig.
Dave

 

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[Horst]

I'm willing to swap my firast and only 5 Mark coin for the 5 $ gold coin sounds like a deal?? Man, what a killer find....go back for more!!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful gold coin recovery, congrats!

 

[glass half fool]

WOWZA!!!

 

[DFW_THer]

BANNER you DAWG! Great Coing.

 

[Shakakka]

Dude, if I found a coin like that I'd raise my shovel to the sky and scream like King Leonidas fighting the Persians.

Calm down my ass.

 

[dieselfool]

If I found that, I would fall asleep........as in, PASS OUT!

 

[Locke]

Dream come true, congrats.

 

[Goldiver]

Man is that a gorgeous coin! Congratulations!

Steve

 

[rastinirv]

She's gorgeous! Well done!

 

[Z.Agee]

Beautiful score 👌, that's what detecting dreams are made of. I see you are in OH, where at. I am SW

 

[Inspector]

Congrts on the gold save & the banner, HH

 

[Coin Searcher]

Beautiful 5 Dollar Gold!

 

[steelheadwill]

• Nice coin.

if someone starts a VAM style variety list for half eagles, this one would be listed,
note the position of the date digits, esp the 0,
keep em coming
and hey look, this is my 6666th post

 

[MSpeiser]

Beautiful score ��, that's what detecting dreams are made of. I see you are in OH, where at. I am SW

I am in NW Ohio

 

[Crumb]

Killer gold coin man,congratulations,to me it gets no better then that

 

[Slowtaknow]

is that the map under the finds where you found them? giving away your spot if so.

 

[Underwonder]

Someone must have been crying the day it was lost...Looks like it went from the bank to someone who lost it to you! Fabulous find and congratulations on your Banner!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Man, that’s awesome. I’m fairly positive I’ll never find a gold coin. However, I said that about finding a trime sooooooooo maybe. Great job you lucky dog!!!!!

 

[yaxthri]

A very nice coin that gave you that banner congrats!
But I loved the (headless) cooper statuette, too. Could you post some more pics of it? What is it made of?