Holy Cow I just found a gold coin

[Turbo21]

It's a little cooler today and wanted to get a quick lunchtime hunt in so I went to a local soccer field
I always see people posting gold rings found in soccer fields so I figured why not give it a try

I was digging all the low tones in hope I would find some gold. I got an almost overload low tone that just screamed in my ears. Dig the plug and only 2" down see gold.

Pull it out and I know immediately what it is. A 1984 1/2 ounce 24 karat (.999)panda gold coin. I never thought I would find a gold coin.

I am still shaking as I write this. With the bezel it looks like it was on a necklace I looked all around the area and could t find the necklace.

This was a find of a life time!!!!

 

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[JerseyDigger19]

Mega Jackpot!!! Way to go!!!

 

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[Turbo21]

Yes, as said, it is "a gold coin." However, it was found as a piece of jewelry. If people vote "banner" because it' a half ounce of gold, worth $650 (or whatever it's worth), then that's one thing. It is a valuable find. What shouldn't happen is that this makes it up there because its simply a gold coin that was lost as jewelry. If this makes banner, then every piece of jewelry valued above $XXX should be up on banner too, and that won't happen.

With that being said, if it makes banner, then chains, bracelets, rings, etc., should be up there.

It wasn't lost as a coin, simple as that. The automatic banner nominations for a gold coin shouldn't apply here.

It's a great find, and something we'd all drool over. There has to be a distinction between a "coin coin" and coin jewelry.

No matter what it's not going to make the banner because I still have a banner find up there. You can't have 2 banners at once


Here is another scenario

My banner find that is up right now is of a civil war dog tag/I'd tag. It was found in a local park that had nothing to do with the civil war. Is it any less of a find because it didn't come from a camp in Virginia?

Way to much emphasis on where an item was recovered instead of what the item is

In the end all the items we find are lost items. Does it matter if it was from the ghost town settled in 1850 a half mile from where I type this. Or go a half mile the other way to one of our old parks. IMO it doesn't matter one bit

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Turbo21, the example of your CW dog-tag was at a park that was built @ 1914. Thus the provenance *could* be that a CW soldier was still around at that time. And lost it therefore "in the period" of user's circulation.

But the bottom line is (to use that tag example) is that in a way, you're right: There is sometimes NO WAY to know "tame" vs "wild" find. Or "jewelry" vs "coin". Or "period" vs "modern fluke collector" drop. And this isn't just a distinction for "banner" type show & tell hobbyists . This is also a personal satisfaction that even most md'rs hold TO THEMSELVES. Like the example of the fellow I know who got a seated half still in the plastic sleeve with a price sticker still on it. The fellow did not count it amongst his old coins (he was out storm hunting beach erosion, and that was a fluke on the walk back to his car across the dry sand).

But in that funky in-between ground with no-way-to-know, then sure: Ambiguities will always exist. Eg.: "Could it have just fallen out of a bezel?", blah blah blah. But in the case of a coin with not only a bezel, but ALSO a current date, then ... do you think we're talking jewelry category ? Or coin category ?

 

[eastcoastdetectorist]

AAAAAWESOME! GREAT FIND!

 

[smokeythecat]

Hey, it is what it is. A great find. I have found several gold rings, two with diamonds and one at if I remember right, 14 grams, which is HUGE. I've found an English gold coin and a very ugly Mexican gold coin in 50 something years. Back then I didn't own a metal detector. I was too little. Started detecting in the 1980's, but gave it up for 20 years. The last 6 years have been excellent. More people should buy gold coins and jewelry and lose them. Preferably where I can find them!

And Joe Hunter, remember is has to be notarized also!