Dgoldman
Jr. Member
- Feb 24, 2014
- 27
- 42
- Detector(s) used
- Gold Bug Pro, Makro pin pointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
A treasure I didn't expect.
Hello all,
This is my first find other than gold and I had to share. Three weeks ago I was at the East Fork of the San Gabriel river in Ca. I have been a gold prospector for about thirty years and have been poking around in this river for the same amount of time. This canyon has a large history of gold mining and was very active from the 1850's to the 1930's. The canyon had many saloons, stores and structures to support the miners. I have done a lot of research about this river and frequent it a lot to pan and sluice. Recently a friend of mine has been going with me and is hooked as a newbie gold prospector. We hiked in about a mile and set up our sluices. I was explaining where to dig to him for what I thought would be our best results for gold. Thirty minutes later he started digging elsewhere. It was 3:00 an we cleaned our sluices up. I found a few good flakes while my friend freaked out and called me over. In his sluice was two Standing Liberty quarters. We were jazzed to say the least. The quarters are badly worn and we can't see any dates. I looked them up in my Redbook and found one of the quarters to be a type 1 which was only minted in 1916 or 17. Pretty cool that we found an old miners quarters from about 100 years ago. My mine was going all over the place with where they came
from. We vowed to go back and bring my metal detector next time. Last Sunday I went back to the same spot and hunted. The first hour I found only trash. About thirty minutes later I got a good hit ten feet down river from where we were digging the first time. Two scoops later, there it was, another Standing Liberty quarter. Now I am bursting with excitement! Twenty minutes later in the same line in the river up from where our sluice were three weeks ago between two boulders I got another good hit. Could it be? Yes, it was another quarter. We were freaking out!. My metal detector is a Gold Bug Pro and I intended it to find gold. This was a different type of gold. We had to leave as it was getting late but will return. We are thinking they are coming from a buried location. No law in this canyon at that time and we're thinking someone buried their money and we hope gold or gold coins. Next time back we are going to detect up river as anything heavier will be up river. Stay tuned! Hopefully the pics upload right.
Hello all,
This is my first find other than gold and I had to share. Three weeks ago I was at the East Fork of the San Gabriel river in Ca. I have been a gold prospector for about thirty years and have been poking around in this river for the same amount of time. This canyon has a large history of gold mining and was very active from the 1850's to the 1930's. The canyon had many saloons, stores and structures to support the miners. I have done a lot of research about this river and frequent it a lot to pan and sluice. Recently a friend of mine has been going with me and is hooked as a newbie gold prospector. We hiked in about a mile and set up our sluices. I was explaining where to dig to him for what I thought would be our best results for gold. Thirty minutes later he started digging elsewhere. It was 3:00 an we cleaned our sluices up. I found a few good flakes while my friend freaked out and called me over. In his sluice was two Standing Liberty quarters. We were jazzed to say the least. The quarters are badly worn and we can't see any dates. I looked them up in my Redbook and found one of the quarters to be a type 1 which was only minted in 1916 or 17. Pretty cool that we found an old miners quarters from about 100 years ago. My mine was going all over the place with where they came
from. We vowed to go back and bring my metal detector next time. Last Sunday I went back to the same spot and hunted. The first hour I found only trash. About thirty minutes later I got a good hit ten feet down river from where we were digging the first time. Two scoops later, there it was, another Standing Liberty quarter. Now I am bursting with excitement! Twenty minutes later in the same line in the river up from where our sluice were three weeks ago between two boulders I got another good hit. Could it be? Yes, it was another quarter. We were freaking out!. My metal detector is a Gold Bug Pro and I intended it to find gold. This was a different type of gold. We had to leave as it was getting late but will return. We are thinking they are coming from a buried location. No law in this canyon at that time and we're thinking someone buried their money and we hope gold or gold coins. Next time back we are going to detect up river as anything heavier will be up river. Stay tuned! Hopefully the pics upload right.
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