When was your first Gold Find

[Oddjob]

Was just wondering if people still remember their first ever gold find whilst MDing and what was it?

I still remember my first gold, but have forgotten most after that. Mine was at Medina Lake back in the mid 80s and it was a White Gold ring with 3 Pearls, one big center and two smaller on the sides.

Back then took it to a place called Shultz in San Antonio to get it cleaned up, he said it was from the 20s and he offered me 700 bucks.

One of the very few items I have kept.

SO what is yours?

 

[Deft Tones]

4-4.5 years ago was my 1st. I remember the park and general area in that park, and I remember it was a thin womans ring below nickel range but not much more than that do I recall. Smashed prongs with no jewels it's not worth much so I still have it as a milestone piece.

I can walk you to exactly where I found the honkers in the years afterwords though!

 

[smokeythecat]

Oh yeah! January 13th, the year of Hurricane Sandy. 1774 gold Guinea on the TOP of the sand!

 

[ARC]

Gold tooth in my omelet...
Lost by the cook in the galley.

Reward for returning was a jar of dirt.

:P

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

Who can ever forget their 1st gold find?
My first gold find was actually an eyeball find at Hungry Mother State Park in VA, a 10k signet ring when I was a preteen.
My 1st detector find was just off the edge of a soccer field, a large 14k gold bracelet 3-4" down. Broken clasp.

 

[DiamondDan]

Yep. Last year during the blazing summer heat I pulled a lunker of a men's white and yellow gold wedding ring. (15 grams) Immediately sold it and bought a better machine. Have yet to sell anyting else I've found, but man, did I need a new detector.

 

[Ammoman]

Its sad but i am one of those people that does not remember. I know it was a ring and im pretty sure it was found On Whiteman AFB in Missouri back in the late 70s. If i had to guess, it was likely a Wedding band. I remember when the early 80s came around and gold almost hit 1000 per ounce...i sold everything when gold was in the low 900s. Now...if i could just forget my first wife!

 

[Joe hunter]

At my local park in the grass by the pool.It was a wedding band .It was only an inch down so fairly recent.I felt pretty sorry for the person,so I put it on our local radio station and paper but not even 1 response .I sent it in with some other scrap gold a few years later.

 

[Davers]

Was just wondering if people still remember their first ever gold find whilst MDing and what was it?

I still remember my first gold, but have forgotten most after that. Mine was at Medina Lake back in the mid 80s and it was a White Gold ring with 3 Pearls, one big center and two smaller on the sides.

Back then took it to a place called Shultz in San Antonio to get it cleaned up, he said it was from the 20s and he offered me 700 bucks.

One of the very few items I have kept.

SO what is yours?

For me it was 1998 with my 1st detector 'Whites Classic 3' 'No ID'.

I went to a spot on the local lake where a rope swing was ,as I recall through the mid 80's onward . Long since built over with a Subdivision.

They drain this lake every Winter so the Water was low , I was basically checking every signal then I found a nice smaller with diamonds 10 k I think. A GREAT feeling it was.

I gave it to my Mom, then almost 10 years later I eyeballed it in the Backyard, I think Mom R.I.P.
lost it but did not have the heart to tell me.

I still have it somewhere, I'm pretty sure.

 

[Oddjob]

That is a very cool first gold find.

Oh yeah! January 13th, the year of Hurricane Sandy. 1774 gold Guinea on the TOP of the sand!

 

[Oddjob]

Not sad at all mate, it happens when you find more than your fair share, then combine that with decades of hunting. I have forgotten many items it happens.

Its sad but i am one of those people that does not remember. I know it was a ring and im pretty sure it was found On Whiteman AFB in Missouri back in the late 70s. If i had to guess, it was likely a Wedding band. I remember when the early 80s came around and gold almost hit 1000 per ounce...i sold everything when gold was in the low 900s. Now...if i could just forget my first wife!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Mine was 9/5/2015, 16 months after I began detecting, I dig a small inscribed gold pocket watch.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Last summer, my 2nd year detecting...one of those "dig EVERY signal" days...paid off with a nice, dainty 18k ladies ring...still waiting for my 2nd...Ddf

 

[BosnMate]

I was detecting on a beach on the Oregon coast a few years ago. Found a man's white gold wedding band. I still remember how different the ping was on my MXT. I'd never heard that before ----- what a rush. I'd found other rings, plated, and they don't sound the same. One disappointing ring was found at a log cabin get away on the river, that had been owned by what I assume was a cheap skate doctor, who was being cheap and sneaky with his girl friends. I found a diamond engagement ring, except chunks of the plating was coming off, and the rock was not a diamond, probably glass. That one was a boom to bust, so I don't count that one as my first real gold find.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

10k class ring on a ball field in Monroe, MI in 1983 - returned. The last one was a 10k band at a park tot lot swing set in Plymouth, Mass in '87. Gave it to my wife and she divorced me for another fellow - took a while to recover from that. A long absence from the hobby afterwards.

But! I'm back and hungry for gold I will say that I did get some color panning in South Western NC a few years ago.

 

[Oddjob]

Dude does that still work?

Mine was 9/5/2015, 16 months after I began detecting, I dig a small inscribed gold pocket watch.

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[smokeythecat]

Here is the Tnet thread to my FIRST gold coin. Still looking for a US gold coin. Can find anybody else's but not US gold.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/329462-sea-gave-back-its-treasure-today.html

 

[Loco-Digger]

Dude does that still work?

Wished it did, it was buried for quite a while. I played hell digging it out of some roots.

 

[CASPER-2]

1976 - age 13 - 14k antique ring with turquoise stone - found on football of old school
I gave it to my mother to wear
I have found over 1000 gold items since then

 

[sprailroad]

14 Kt white gold men's wedding band in a park in Burbank, Calif. 1988