🥇 BANNER Found...The Holy Grail!...on the second try

[PlzBSeated]

Jmastny78 and I headed back out to the old honey hole. The tear-out is progressing towards downtown. We spent a while exploring new territory with little luck. "If you can't find them where you are...go back to where you found them before...you're bound to have missed something." So I told Jer I was headed back to the church. I had gridded this patch of ground twice in the last two nights. We had found some older coins over the last two nights but I noticed we weren't finding any of the oddball coins (trimes, flying eagles, half-dimes, or any of those coins that seemed to circulate after the large cents). So I decided I was just going to dig everything.

Came across a signal in the foil range. The dirt had already been disturbed around the signal so it was obvious that the signal had been dug by someone previously. Yes, that someone would be me the night before. Obviously I gave up on the target figuring it wasn't worth my while. Well it was giving a signal between 42-46 on the ATPro. Same signal I got earlier this year when I dug up a three cent nickel. Poked around in the dirt a bit. Ah, a piece of foil. "Man that's a shiny piece of foil". Flipped it over and rubbed the dirt off of it. OH...MY...GOD! I recognize that bust!



$1 Gold Coin, Indian Princess Head, Small Head Variety(let me know if you disagree)...minted 1854-1856. Unfortunately, or more interestingly, depending on your vantage point...it had been modified into a love token.



I raised my hands in victory as I walked towards Jmastny to show him. ...and received the "What did that ******* find now?" look.


I realize this has been modified into a love token and was probably worn around someone's neck for a number of years...but someone please assure me that I can now claim to be a member of the gold coin club...a membership I have aspired to for the last 20+ years. A lofty goal, if you're hunting in Michigan (and probably a number of other places).



Today's digs...

Love token crafted from a $1 Gold Coin (1854-1856)
1898 Barber dime
(2) Wheatbacks 1911, 1939

 

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[The Rebel]

Amazing! WTG! I'd call that a 2 Fer. 1 for the Gold Coin & 2 for the Love Token!

 

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[The Aluminum Monster]

Absolutely stunning. A very good reminder to myself to not give up on those 40s signals on the Pro. One of these days, it won't be foil! Thank you for sharing and congrats!

 

[digging440yrs]

CONGRADS !!!

 

[callmez]

Absolutely fantastic -- congratulations! You've been justly rewarded for digging your share of iffy signals...

 

[shoague]

This is definitely a great find and if any man were to give me a love token like that, I would be his.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Street tearouts can be the slowest and most unproductive hunting there is... way to go!!!

 

[PlzBSeated]

TALK ABOUT KNOCKING THE BALL OUT THE PARK . BOY THATS A SWEET GOLD PEICE . MY EYES ARE KINDA BAD CANT MAKE OUT THE INITIALS ON THE BACK . AND IF I HAD FOUND THAT I WOULD LOOK LIKE CURLY ON THE GROUND SPINNING ON HIS SIDE.

Yeah, Sut. Thing is so small...I can't focus on it up close to read it, and it I hold it far enough away to focus...it's too small to read. I think the letters are AEL, second guess...AES.

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[PlzBSeated]

Absolutely beautiful, and a very special, singular find after 20 years in. Banner!

Of course, given the level of reinforcement involved, I see a LOT of foil being dug in your future.

Cheers!

You're not kidding! Of course now that I've found the first gold coin...each additional gold coin find gets progressively easier...Right?!

 

[PlzBSeated]

Your only an "associate member" of the gold club, because you can't quit claim to be a full member and there are no "half members" due to your coin only having half a coin side.

I was afraid there might be such a clause.

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[PlzBSeated]

This is definitely a great find and if any man were to give me a love token like that, I would be his.

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[PlzBSeated]

Street tearouts can be the slowest and most unproductive hunting there is... way to go!!!

Daaavve, you are SO right AND you are SO wrong. I have seen my share of tear-outs over 20+ years. They have been some of the most productive AND some of the most unproductive sites I have detected. Luck plays a big part...and it never hurts to know a little something that no one else knows about that particular tear-out. I could tell you stories!

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[Bquamb]

I had better start digging that foil!

 

[GaRebel1861]

What an outstanding find! Here's another banner vote coming your way. Good luck!

 

[Aquila]

banner find

 

[BcuttinPlugs]

Great find I just can't believe it read so low. I found a fair share reading 48-49 but never that low. Awesome u just never know

 

[toadspaghetti]

Now I suppose I'll need to dig the low 40's too. Here comes 6,000,000,000 foil wrappers.

 

[ArDirtSlinger]

Welcome to the Club!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on becoming an Exclusive Member!!! Nice finds all around.... HH and GL

 

[DetectingGodlikeOnOlympus]

That's an awesome find. It definitely counts as a gold coin, and a personalized one at that.

The heyday of love tokens was in the 1870s, and I think most of them are old losses. My only gold coin was also made into a love token.

Congratulations on joining the club.

 

[bigfoot1]

....atp?,for reasons I'm not sure of my at pro has upped my gold count consistantly.not sure if its the machine or other variables.only gold I ever got in the 40s was a 1 gram wire ring.would have thot a lil higher for disk shaped coin.

super good job there.awsome keeper and banner vote in !!!

 

[PlzBSeated]

....atp?,for reasons I'm not sure of my at pro has upped my gold count consistantly.not sure if its the machine or other variables.only gold I ever got in the 40s was a 1 gram wire ring.would have thot a lil higher for disk shaped coin.

super good job there.awsome keeper and banner vote in !!!

When I bought the machine I was told that it did very well on gold. Not that I do a lot of hunting where I expect to find gold. Probably the frequency that the machine operates on. I understand lower frequencies hit silver well. I think the ATP is 15 Khz?

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