My first dollar coin!

[The_Griffyn]

So today, eight days into owning a detector I found my first dollar coin. It isn't silver, old, or anything special, but I was very happy nonetheless. I haven't gotten so excited over a single dollar since back in the tooth fairy days.

EDIT: After seeing that guys GW find, my simple dollar find has become far less thrilling.

 

[Knightwalker]

Nice find. You didn't show a pic of the back. Looks more like it might be a token, I coundn't find it in my coinage book.
HH in 2010

 

[jasper62]

It's a dollar.Congrats on you're first one.It's still exciting as H#ll being you're first one.I'll bet you were grinning from ear to ear when you found it.

 

[The_Griffyn]

It's a 2008 John Quincy Adams dollar. I found it under a park bench at about 4 inches.

And yes, I was grinning ear to ear. I mean, it's only a dollar, and I was all kinds of giddy.

Funny thing was that the bench was near a big sand tot-lot. When I arrived I noticed fresh footprints in the damp sand (it's been raining like mad here these past few days) and some holes. Someone how just been through with a machine so I abandoned the lot and moved off into the field. The coin was my very first signal. After it I grabbed about another dollar in clad in all of about 30 feet. Then this old timer rolls up on a bicycle with a detector strapped across the front and says, "I did that sandbox just an hour ago." He was a real nice fellow and we talked for about 20 minutes before going our separate ways. He had a pouch full of clad that he had grabbed from the 4 or 5 sand boxes in this giant park. For the second time in a week I was 45 minutes late to the diggings. I need to work on my timing.


-TG-

 

[The_Griffyn]

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You should see what I go through to get 100 dirty pennies. It is not pretty. I have scars.
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[Ray in CA]

I've found a couple of those myself, and it puts a grin on my face everytime. A dollar is a dollar, and this one you can spend as opposed to putting it away in your collection.

Ray

 

[RiverRat3]

Congrats on your first dollar....

 

[favored papa]

last year was my first year and i found 12, it is better than most of the silver rings i found. Never believe just because someone else has been there, it is cleaned out, I may be wrong but I think everyone misses stuff.

 

[JP]

I found one the year before. If we could only encourage more people to carry them rather then pennies.....

That's what I think is neat about the postings from the hunters that live in Canada, all of those $1 and $2 coins...it makes hunting more profitable....also brings you closer to being able to buy another machine.

Cool find.

 

[MZKITY62]

hey, congrats on your first dollar!!!! I haven't reached that yet. I will someday. I love this hobby and I love all the junk too. Good Luck to you and happy hunting!

 

[Iron Patch]

Nice GW butt... I mean Quincy dollar. You should frame it and 10 years from now it will be good for a laugh, and probably some fond memories of starting out.

 

[acehunter]

Great find, I have never seen that coin in circulation. I know it was thrilling to have found your first one. Keep up the good work and have fun doing it.

 

[davew0710]

Congrats on the first dollar coin. The first one is always the best.
You got a dollar from the tooth fairy She owes me 85 cents per tooth, the deadbeat.

 

[GopherDaGold]

So your (now) 10 day old detector just got a dollar cheaper. HH!

 

[IronSpike]

$1 coin would improve my coin count value

 

[JP]

So today, eight days into owning a detector I found my first dollar coin. It isn't silver, old, or anything special, but I was very happy nonetheless. I haven't gotten so excited over a single dollar since back in the tooth fairy days.

EDIT: After seeing that guys GW find, my simple dollar find has become far less thrilling.

You should see what I go through to get 100 dirty pennies. It is not pretty. I have scars.

Actually, I also have ulcers, but those are not from the pennies, those are from the pulltabs.

I can imagine that there are some out there with hemorrhoids because of all that can slaw.

 

[allen]

those dollar coins add up real fast !!

 

[LMC 620]

Nice find. Not only have I never found a new dollar, or old for that matter, I never even got one in change from the stores I shop. They just aren't very well circulated. I would say that find is ever rarer than finding an old silver dollar. Not in value, just in number.

Lee

 

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.Congrats

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Great find, but is it just me, or are American coins getting just plain ugly? The backs now look like casino gaming tokens. 1916 was a damn good year for coin designs, downhill ever since.
Carl