Finally hit a little gold & I'm charmed!

[PetesPockets55]

Beautiful day on the river today with a super low tide at sunrise.
The local river has been pushing the stream back towards the south bank and making a nice little cut of about 18". My Legend has been giving me fits lately in beach mode, so I switched to park mode. In the brackish water, this switch was giving me sounds and numbers that were odd.
I was pulling the usual cans, tops when this little beauty turned up.

(18mm x 21mm & 2.8g)

Here's another with a Lincoln cent for scale.


I can't exactly retire or even send the Nokta in for repairs from the proceeds, but I can cross "Find Gold" off the list.
Here's a couple more images of finds from today and yesterday.

 

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[Blak bart]

Very nice work !! The treasure gods are smiling down at you. Congrats !!🫡👏👏👏

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Excellent find - congrats !

 

[pepperj]

I'm thinking that got some older gold. Congrats
That value stem is an early one, cool.
Brass out of low oxygen mud sure looks golden.😁

 

[oldmxrat]

Congrats on the gold!

 

[Almy]

"G" for gold! I can see the loop in the top worn through, likely when it was lost. Pretty find!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Neat little gold find.

 

[RobNC]

Can't complain with results like this. Hope you find a lot more gold!
I am not a water hunter so can't say why the Legend is cutting up unless it is a bad coil or something to do with the ST setting.

 

[PetesPockets55]

Thanks Bart, E-Trac, Pepperj, Oldmx, Almy, TrezureH., RobNC, and everyone else for the comments & wishes for more, more, more!

I'm thinking that got some older gold. Congrats
That value stem is an early one, cool.

Older as in mis 1900's?

Brass out of low oxygen mud sure looks golden.😁

That sure did look gold, but I knew they wouldn't be making hollow threaded tubing out of gold. So, my mind went to a brass alloy that some of the metal had leached out of. When I found the second valve stem, I wasn't sure what it was and thought it was a leather remnant still attached to it, not rubber.

"G" for gold! I can see the loop in the top worn through, likely when it was lost. Pretty find!

I though the same thing. LOL

Can't complain with results like this. Hope you find a lot more gold!
I am not a water hunter so can't say why the Legend is cutting up unless it is a bad coil or something to do with the ST setting.

Thanks, and me too. And thanks for mentioning the possible fixes for the error message.
I thought of a bad coil as well, but wouldn't that cause an issue whatever mode I was in?

 

[pepperj]

Your valve is probably off a Model T.
In this link it has some of the information on the valve.

Model T Ford Forum: Page From 1930 Schrader Valve Stem Catalog