First Gold Coin is my Best Find Ever!!

[xlt nh]

Found on Sunday, Aug. 19th...still can't believe it! I've been hunting for 20+ years and have only heard stories of those who had dug gold coins.

She's an 1851 $2 1/2 Dollar with great details and a few edge nicks that I can definitely live with!

First two pics are freshly dug, and the next are cleaned up a bit....Enjoy!

Thanks for looking and HH,
Hank 8)

 

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[detector dave]

o my I wish I found that. I have been hunting for around 30 year and have dug up every tub i come across and never seen one of those,some day my luck will change.I would keep that coin forever and never sell it, some day my luck will change and i to will find a coin like that, a once ina lifetime find . you have done well and i wish you well, let the detecting gods be with you and you will find another. good luck and post a pic of the next coin you find.

 

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[windrun]

VERY GOOD!

Richard

 

[jimb]

Good show! I am still waiting for mine and I have been detecting for forty years! You are lucky!

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome!!!!

 

[Detectingfreak]

dude thats awesome! Congratulations!

 

[Indianhead Jones]

Hank, I've been detecting since 1980, and have never dug my dream find...a U.S. gold coin! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! You hit the Holy Grail there with that beautiful coin!!!

P.S. I hate you! LOL!

Larry

 

[allen1]

Wow, You have a nice coin with you.
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allen

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[ecastro111]

Now thats a beauty

 

[woody50]

Well I know the feeling, you get a signal, maybe good, and think well a button or maybe even a coin and out pops that thing, and you think first a stupid piece of gold tinfoil again, and then you look more carefully....... congrad!

 

[kuger]

Why isnt this on the banner

 

[woody50]

Why isnt this on the banner

Well I guess because its an old message from August 2007... Maybe it WAS on the banner back then.

 

[kuger]

Sorry I missed that

 

[whitesPA]

wow very nice find . still waiting for my first . been at it 10 years

 

[lockman209]

Awsome Job!!!!!!!

 

[olemanoman]

I looked in my Warmans U>S> Currency book and it shows it worth at $145.00 f to $200.00 xf. if it had a c or d would be worth $800.00 up to $2500.00

 

[camb1]

She is a sweet looking thing.

 

[allen]

awesome find !!!!!

 

[Deno]

That is a dream come true. I hope my xlt sniffs out one some day. Congratulations on a beautiful coin. That is
the find of a life time. I love this hobby.

 

[AmericanCoinHunting]

That Gold Coin would be in a pendant around my neck till I die........Unless it was very rare,,,,,then I would make a show case for it...With the story of how I found it,,,and then my Grandson would inherit it.............Very Nice find.........I wonder how many times I have swept over one (with it disc ed out) in the many old parks I detect)

 

[rwsnc]

Wow... what a rush that must have been. Great find.