Look down...

[trinityau]

Hello all, I had been out detecting with a friend and the place turned out to be a bust so I called my wife and had her come pick me up. I told her to bring her detector and we would detect a few pullouts on the highway as we headed home. She got there and we went by a spot at an intersection where some old diggings came down almost to the highway. She started detecting and I walked over to the edge of the diggings and started detecting. Within a few minutes got a booming signal with my GB Pro. I looked down a saw what I thought was a large flake of gold. I thought to myself, WOW! I reached down to pick the piece up and saw that it was a gold coin.

The coin turned out to be a 1843 D (Dahlonega,Georgia) two and a half dollar/Quarter Eagle. It has the large D and large date. Thanks, TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS


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[Goes4ever]

wow! that is awesome!

 

[Mi$terG]

Incredible! Congrats on an amazing find!

 

[caprock]

Very Cool Find!
Don't see a lot of those in California.
Love to hear the story that coin could tell, lotsa history there!

 

[Greylock]

Congrats . Must be the year of the gold coin

 

[MackDog]

congrats on the gold

 

[adirondackjim]

Just amazing!

 

[beez0404]

Congrats . Must be the week of the gold coin

 

[WheatWaffle]

Nice find!

 

[NorthernTesoro]

Unbelievable! Congrats on a awesome find!

 

[Doc Arey]

I vote Banner!

 

[Garrett424]

Fantastic find.
And you're right. It pays to always look down.

Congrats on an awesome coin.

 

[baddbluff]

Instabanner! Awesome coin!!!

 

[greaser]

Awesome congrats

 

[parsonwalker]

It's where you find it . . . wow! Cool coin AND story.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Awesome find, beautiful gold coin, congrats. It should make banner!

 

[mikeraydj]

Banner!

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

This was a eye only find? If so would probably vote banner just for that here !

 

[MUDSLINGER]

echoing everyone elses comments. you got the karma gods paying you back!!!! voted banner

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Might have been washed down from the old diggings a prospectors drop during the days of old. Awesome find. Banner vote in.