🥇 BANNER Once in a lifetime find. Double Eagle

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I started hunting a spot that had been a logging camp in the early 1900's. I had been finding axe heads, square nails and many other period items. As it turned out I eventually found several coins over a long period of hunting this place. The first coin I found there was a Barber dime. To date I have found this Double Eagle, a Half Eagle. 3 Morgan dollars, 2 Barber half dollars, 1 Barber quarter, 3 Barber dimes, 1 Buffalo nickel and a 1915 spoon from the Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
 

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Now that is completely unbelievable. I can imagine how your heart must have been pumping when you pulled out any of them jewels. A most jubilant Congratulations to you!!!
 

Now that is completely unbelievable. I can imagine how your heart must have been pumping when you pulled out any of them jewels. A most jubilant Congratulations to you!!!

It was quite the rush. I had dug the two Barber halves the day before in the same hole together. The next day I got the Double Eagle. I was shaking!
 

WOW! I'm losing count. This is the THIRD gold coin you've found? Amazing.
 

WOW! I'm losing count. This is the THIRD gold coin you've found? Amazing.

It was my first one. I found it about 2 1/2 years ago. I'm searching for number three now :)
 

Wow! Amazing! The only ones I've only seen have been slabbed already!
 

Hi, wow :notworthy: that is a amazing find. Huge Congrats:occasion14: I can only dream of finding a coin like that
 

Great finds! It really shows the importance of good recovery technique too. Imagine how you would feel if you scratched one of these babies with a digger.
 

It was my first one. I found it about 2 1/2 years ago. I'm searching for number three now :)

Amazing!! :notworthy:

So, did you find your 2nd gold coin in this same area?
 

Beautiful Gold coin...I have to say BANNER!
 

Breathtaking coin!!!!!! An experience of a lifetime just to see that gold edge in the hole!!!!
 

You've been a member since '14...found this 2 years ago..and JUST NOW SHOW US?....I probably would have sat on it too...lol

Must have ben an "Occident-al find"...lol
 

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Wow! They must have paid those loggers well considering the denominations of the coins you're finding.
 

That’s a big hunk of gold.... Congrats on making it up top!
 

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