Gold Comes In Many Ways, Here's My Besties Of 2021. Let's See Yours.

[Gerry in Idaho]

I enjoy a variety of MDing styles which keeps me on my toes with different detectors and models.  To me, "golden find" a term and has many meanings.   I'd like to share some of the Golden Memories I was able to make in 2021 while enjoying my metal detectors with many friends in different states.

2021 is finally over and even though there were many restrictions and some negative in our lives I did manage to escape on occasion and enjoy what I've been doing for near 50 years (metal detecting).  Here's some of my better digs while on adventures with friends as we shared laughter, made cool discoveries & great memories. These are my besties of 2021. Best Nugget, coin, ring, tag, Railroad, space rock, silver day & non metal eye find. 

May the 2022 year bring your recover tool many treasures of golden memories.  I hope to see you share with us all on Detector Prospector those precious treasures and memories about to be made.

Let's see your Besties of 21.

 

My best piece of gold dug in NV while swinging a GPX-6000.

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Best coin was an 1875 Seated Liberty Dime found at an old mining camp in Dakotas while chasing gold, with EQ-800 and CoilTek 10" Ellip NOX coil. 

 

Best ring was scooped just last week in water off a Cancun beach, it's Platinum with at least a 1/2 carat diamond while swinging an EQ-600 and stock 11" coil.

 

Best tag is a pretty ornate 1913 Dog Tax Tag from Ogden, UT found in Idaho with EQ-800.

 

Best Railroad item... is a NNRY lock found in NV at a RR stop with EQ-800.  What's so unique about this find, besides it being rare?  We were on our way to hunt gold in NV and I wanted to stop at a RR site on the way down.  I told them I wanted to spend 1/2 day looking for a lock.  Just before the end of the hunt...bang a Northern Nevada Rail Way lock is in my hand. 

 

 

Best find from outer space.  A nice meteorite sunbaking in the AZ cactus fields while swinging a GPZ-7000.

 

Best silver day was in Idaho the 1st day I used the CoilTek 15" round NOX coil on my EQ-800, 8 silvers.

 

Most interesting unexpected save happened in Nevada while Lunk and I were detecting a mining camp.  We were using the CoilTek 14" Semi Ellip and 10" Ellip NOX coils on our EQ-800's and found a mini cache of (over 30) early American gold gilted rings from the 1860/70's.  This was a fun day of digging.

 

Best non metal find was near a high desert spring in Nevada while hunting gold.  It was a surface find with my eyes.  Nice arrowhead of milky white quartz.

 

Most odd and funny find of 2021.  I was hunting gold in Nevada desert and literally in gods country.  I get a beep and in a sage bush is this clowns horn.  I laughed at myself and the horn for at least 10 minutes and still to this day have no clue how or why it ended up where it was.

 

Most valuable find of 2021.  All the friends by my side on the adventures I took part in.  At times were treated to 5 star meals, top shelf liquors and plenty laughter/stories to tell. 

Getting to meet some of the most respected names in the industry and at other times helping to teach new folks who will eventually be on here sharing their own experiences for the future.  Memories were created, history was saved and friendships made.

Happy New Year DP Friends, After I look back at it all, maybe 2021 wasn't all that bad, it least not while having a detector near my side.

[F350Platinum]

Great stuff and memories, Gerry. 👍 Did you step on the horn, or hit it with your detector? 🤣 

I started detecting in July of '20, got my Equinox for Christmas, and in January '21 started detecting the fields in front of my house. One of the the first things I dug was one of these, I have 3:

Next was this little beauty, I have 4:

In this one little field right out my front door I got about 100 old buttons. Since then it got nothing but better. My favorite coin find of the year was this:

But then I dug this one, which will probably be the oldest coin I will ever dig:

Even got gold at a beach in Savannah, but I had to test it to prove it. The thicker ring is a 10k I dug on a hill behind my house. The wave ring is 18k. 

The most interesting non-precious things I have found thus far are these two:

I can only imagine what I'll find in 2022, I've been very lucky. I've managed to find a lot of great stuff in a very short time.

[Glenn in CO]

1 hour ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

I enjoy a variety of MDing styles which keeps me on my toes with different detectors and models.  To me, "golden find" a term and has many meanings.   I'd like to share some of the Golden Memories I was able to make in 2021 while enjoying my metal detectors with many friends in different states.

2021 is finally over and even though there were many restrictions and some negative in our lives I did manage to escape on occasion and enjoy what I've been doing for near 50 years (metal detecting).  Here's some of my better digs while on adventures with friends as we shared laughter, made cool discoveries & great memories. These are my besties of 2021. Best Nugget, coin, ring, tag, Railroad, space rock, silver day & non metal eye find. 

May the 2022 year bring your recover tool many treasures of golden memories.  I hope to see you share with us all on Detector Prospector those precious treasures and memories about to be made.

Let's see your Besties of 21.

Very nice finds, looks like a very productive year for you. May 2022 be as good or better. Thanks for sharing!

[rvpopeye]

Gerry

That there is a gold horn !

Every time you honk it , all the gold within earshot moves a little closer to the surface !

It's true , I tell ya !

(I know this because of the clam whistles we use out on the mud uptah camp !)

[Gerry in Idaho]

F350Platinum -  Those are incredible history saves for such a short time swinging/pinging.  It just goes to show the majority of treasure finds have to do with location.  Very seldom do we see silver reales and cut coins out west.  Yes it happens in a select few locations and or incidents, but nothing like what East of the Mississippi produces.

That bicycle fob is really cool as well.

Thanks for sharing some of your better finds golden finds of 21.

BTW.  The horn still works, so I'll go back and give it the goose a few times to see if my odds improve.

[rvpopeye]

She'll work fer sure ! Course remember now , you need to get it right over the gold🧐

 

[F350Platinum]

2 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

F350Platinum -  Those are incredible history saves for such a short time swinging/pinging.  It just goes to show the majority of treasure finds have to do with location.  Very seldom do we see silver reales and cut coins out west.  Yes it happens in a select few locations and or incidents, but nothing like what East of the Mississippi produces.

That bicycle fob is really cool as well.

Thanks for sharing some of your better finds golden finds of 21.

BTW.  The horn still works, so I'll go back and give it the goose a few times to see if my odds improve.

Thanks Gerry, I'm out of likes and laughs today. I got hooked in the worst way! 🤣

I thank everyone on this forum for their support and patience with me. 🤗

I would attach that horn to my gear if I found it, it's good for years of laughs. 👍