1810's Russian copper and 1881 $10 gold

[Cal_Cobra]

A couple of weeks ago I dug a rare $1 1856-S gold coin that I posted here: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...indian-princess-rare-silver-lady-liberty.html

Oddly I guess rare gold coins no longer make the cut for banner here, but last weekend Tom_in_CA and myself got out for some detecting and dang nabbit if he didn't also dig a gold coin!! I dug an interesting big Russian 2 Kopecks copper coin the size of a U.S. large cent from the reign of Aleksandr I, can't quite make out the date, but they only minted the coin between 1810-1830. Great site, unfortunately the nice California weather is already facilitating excessive grass growth, so we were severely handicapped at a significant portion of our site, but we'll definitely be back

Here's the finds:






GL&HH,
Cal

 

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[SultansOfSwing]

Beautiful gold coin.

Depth? Which detector did you use?

 

[mikefromIllinois]

Congrats to you and Tom both. Yea I don't know why your post from a couple of weeks ago didn't make banner. I seen quit a few people voted banner on it. In the last month or so I seen several others that I think should have made it also, they too had a lot of nominations but didn't make the top.

 

[smokeythecat]

GREAT! There are apparently a LOT of gold coins still in the ground. I think we discriminate out a lot of them looking for silver coins.

 

[Tuberale]

Just posted my BANNER post for Toml

 

[JerV3]

Amazing

Congrats to you guys on the gold coins. I cant find one for the life of me. And I've dug tens of thousands of old coins in the past 26 yrs.

They get dug in my area to. Bumped into a guy last week who dug two in the same park we were hunting.

One day maybe. I dig every damn signal in the ground to. Just super rare to find.

Jer

 

[Argentium]

Incredible find ! Banner every which way !!!! ( or cancel this whole banner nonsense !) Hard to believe that's a dug coin.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Beautiful gold coin.

Depth? Which detector did you use?

It wasn't deep, it was found with an Explorer 2.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Congrats to you and Tom both. Yea I don't know why your post from a couple of weeks ago didn't make banner. I seen quit a few people voted banner on it. In the last month or so I seen several others that I think should have made it also, they too had a lot of nominations but didn't make the top.

Thanks, appreciate it. It's odd, but it is what it is I suppose.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

GREAT! There are apparently a LOT of gold coins still in the ground. I think we discriminate out a lot of them looking for silver coins.

They're definitely out there. Took me forever to find my first one, and a couple of years go the second one. This is Tom_in_CA's 16th gold coin, pretty amazing, he has been detecting for something like 40+ years though.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Amazing

Congrats to you guys on the gold coins. I cant find one for the life of me. And I've dug tens of thousands of old coins in the past 26 yrs.

They get dug in my area to. Bumped into a guy last week who dug two in the same park we were hunting.

One day maybe. I dig every damn signal in the ground to. Just super rare to find.

Jer

Don't give up, their definitely out there. Tens of thousands of old coins, I'd enjoy seeing your collection

GL&HH,
Cal

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Incredible find ! Banner every which way !!!! ( or cancel this whole banner nonsense !) Hard to believe that's a dug coin.

Agreed. Thanks for taking a look

 

[Tnmountains]

Nice rare coin. Like you said it seems everyone is digging gold coins these days. I would be happy with either coin that you dug. I know Tom has dug a lot of them.

 

[jewelerguy]

you found a 1 dollar gold princess recently and now a 10 dollar gold eagle?! Holy cow that's incredible and totally unfair. I want to find one too! Jeez. Huge congrats to you!

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Man I wish I could find just ONE gold anything. Coin, ring ect. Huge congrats to you. You are a lucky man.

To bad your first didn't make banner. Also a super awesome find. My guess is because there is already a gold coin up there.

 

[Scrappy]

I do see an awful lot of gold coins posted nowadays. Although one of the greatest goals in detecting, I think they’re falling off the rarity bell curve just a hair. My buddy dug a mid-1800’s10-franc gold coin last year and it missed banner. And he’s the only one in my very accomplished group that’s dug one. Crusader has dug 2000year old gold that didn’t make banner. That said, I’m pretty envious of that $10 gold you dug. It’s an incredible find

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

WOW !!!

 

[Mackaydon]

Great finds!
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[A2coins]

Wow those coins are freakin cool that gold coin is banner banner banner all day long. Thanks for sharing those. Keep em coming. Tommy

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats to Tom and his West Coast Lies
Nothing has made the Banner since January.