🥇 BANNER Gold Coin!

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Went to a favorite old park today and got a big surprise. After detecting for 35 years I finally found my first gold coin. It's a 1871 half sovereign. Also found a couple of V nickels, a war nickel, buffalo, Merc and Indian, but who cares? I found a gold coin. Talk about a feeling of excitement. Glad I had a couple of buddies there with me. They were as excited as I was. Could I have actually made a banner find?

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I just scanned the gold coin to give a clearer picture. If you click on the photo and then click on it again to get to the highest resolution you can see it appears to be Double Struck. This is what some would call a chatter strike.

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Nice find. Banner....
 

AWESOME Gold Coin you found DON. CONGRATS and my Banner Vote is already in :thumbsup:
 

WTG Don, congratulations on getting the gold coin, not easy to do in the eastern USA....... :)
 

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PATIENCE AND A BEAUTY OF A FIND!! BANNER DAY FOR SURE!
 

That's great, and maybe I only have 20 more years to go until mine! :) Banner for sure... just imagine how many targets dug to get in.
 

OMG, Great. My dream, but don't think I will live long enough for it to happen!
 

Outstanding dig, Banner for sure!!!
 

What an awesome find and coin. Got my banner vote. Congratulations.
 

That's awesome Don. You're having a phenomenal year so far. Congrats on the Holy Grail. :thumbsup:
 

Speechless! Absolutely beautiful, congratulations. I vote banner. Sub 8-)
 

Awesome man, great find! Banner...
 

amazing!, that's a big honking gold coin!! banner vote is in
very very cool, big congrats!

by the way, Im sure you can care less about the nickel trifecta
after scoring that beautiful gold coin!!!
 

Unbefreakinlievable Man ! A Vicky Gold over here ? You gotta be kiddin me !!! For me that would be a " died and gone to heaven find"
really a wonderful coin - I'm stunned ! I could keep going for about half an hour , but I'll spare everybody my drooling gibberish .
I say thank the Good Lord and keep on detecting brother ! (Oh Yeah , BANNER !!!)
 

Damn right you made a Banner find buddy. And a great one at that. That shiny gold coins is gonna make my dirty old spoons look extra grungy up there lol. Congrats buddy
 

Wow... a Sovereign in the states? Awesome! Banner vote in!
 

Great find. You got my vote for banner!
Congrats
Good Luck & HH
 

Wow - that's simply outstanding Don!! That's great that you finally swung your coil over gold after all those years. And I love the fact that it's a non-US gold coin which makes it that much more of a unique find. Nice going!
 

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