Cabin Fever Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 My first Gold Coin! I was working my way back to the truck today while hunting an early 1900s city park when the unimaginable happened.. I had about 5 minuets left to hunt and got a nice solid, deeper sounding 18-19.. I had pulled Indian Head cents out of this area of the park before, and I’ve had a couple on the Equinox bounce down and touch this VDI region in the past, so I thought I might be on to either an Indian or very early Wheat cent.. Little did I know my Indian would turn out to be a 1910 Indian Half Eagle Gold Coin! When I first opened the plug I went down about 5” and found a small piece of junk.. Its an old snap cover or something unrecognizable.. I put the plug back together and and gave it another sweep figuring the target I pulled didn’t really match the signal.. Back came the solid 18-19 signal, only better. I reopened the plug and started scooping out the dirt when a nice chunk of round gold appears in the hole! It looked good, but without my readers on, and being fooled a million times in the past by gold foil and such, I wasn’t sure.. It looked good enough to get my heart racing.. I don’t normally talk out loud to myself, but I blurt out to who I don’t know.. “You Better Not Be F***ing With Me!!” I put on my glasses, picked it up and instantly felt the weight.. I then knew it was gold! To say I was shell shocked is an understatement.. I don’t consider this area to have great potential for a gold coin, so I never really thought I would find one.. Thankfully, I thought wrong.. Equinox 800 - Park 1 - 50 Tones - Recovery 4 - Iron Bias 3 Approximate depth 7”.. Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Fantastic! Mitchel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 That is so cool Bryan...you earned that one with all your intensive coin hunting...that could have easily been a zinc penny with those TID's...congrats! strick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmpainter Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 So how many times over did that pay for your new detector? Congratulations, Bryan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabin Fever Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 27 minutes ago, strick said: That is so cool Bryan...you earned that one with all your intensive coin hunting...that could have easily been a zinc penny with those TID's...congrats! strick Ya Strick, I’ll be digging zincs the rest of my life now.. I usually only chase the deeper zinc signals unless I’m on a compacted ground or tree roots.. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skate Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 That is so awesome! I know you give a lot of credit to the Nox but you had to choose to dig it. The only problem you have now is topping it. I've been passing up those 2 numbers as they've always been junk. Time to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Tn Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Huge congrats!! I've found several goodies with those 18 and 19 numbers. Especially colonial flat buttons. I prob won't ever find a gold coin here. Folks were so poor they couldn't afford to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Wow, BIG CONGRATS!! That's a memory you'll never forget, awesome! Definitely seeing a trend, these things seem to LOVE gold, not a bad problem to have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiftaaft Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Holy smokes Bryan!!! That is awesome!! What a beautiful piece of gold! Congratulations!! Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeleton Coast Hunter Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Excellent!! Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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