MY FIRST GOLD COIN!!!! Still shaking!

[collectorconor]

Hi all well I went out to a local field yesterday metal detecting, over 20 degrees Celsius (quite warm) and wasn't expecting to find anything. Ive never found anything REALLY good, nothing to write home about, but little did I know when I got an iffy signal in the 50's on my Teknetics eurotek pro, that all that was about to change. Mind you the IRON cursor was flashing every now and then.
I dug a hole, zoned down to a little clump of earth, and what I saw made my freeze for like 5 minutes!!! Did I just unearth, after a year PLUS of metal detecting, a gold half sovereign? I saw it was dated 1912 (George V ) and that's funny because my uncle gave me a SOVEREIGN dated 1912 a few yrs ago. I had a feeling that good find was coming!!! Boy was I happy!!! I rung my mum straight away and told her, she couldn't believe it!
Stayed for about another hour (maybe id get more ) and then went home. It is 22 carat gold. My first piece of gold ever and its a coin! GET IN!!

 

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[collectorconor]

Hi it was found in just a normal field (nothing special about it) near a town. Nothing of interest anywhere near, although it was found in the oldest area of town (goes back to bronze age).

 

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[laurenB]

beautiful!!!!

 

[Hawk'n Dirt]

Very nice...

 

[DFW_THer]

Super nice coin. Your best bet on banner nominations is if you post it in "today's finds". Unfortunately the finder/original poster can't do anything extra or special to get something on the banner, it all comes down to nominations and whether or not the moderators get enough 'votes' to put the find up there. I don't know what the threshold is, or if there even is one.

So it only took you one year to find a gold? I've been hunting for around 16yrs and somehow the gold has eluded me...

Great job!

 

[Rongenzel]

Congratulations

 

[Chug And Red]

Votes and The Moderators!!! Some posts that Should be Banner Never Make It There!!!! CHUG

 

[silversurfer1111]

Wow thats awesome silver! ..hope to see a video soon..you need to post this in todays finds..more ppl will see it and more ppl will vote banner.

 

[RelicPrime113]

That's wicked awesome, congrats on finding your first gold! Its an amazing feeling when you find one isn't it?

 

[John_Deere]

Great find! Congrats an HH!

 

[SouthernPride8900]

Awsome find I cant wait to find my first gold

 

[Rongenzel]

Cant wait to find my first gold. It will come soon I can feel it. Congrats

 

[war-digs-it]

Please, show me some dirty trash and a few worthless coins so I can feel a little better about going out tomorrow and finding foil and aluminum scraps?

Great find!!! Thank you for sharing!

 

[Kodiak43351]

Awesome.

 

[AC1955]

Beautiful gold coin! Congratulations on a superb find!

HH,
Anita

 

[tanz 82]

im jealous !

 

[Westfront]

Nothing like pulling a gold coin out of the soil! Big congrats! Go back every now and then, especially after plow and detect the general area.

 

[ShOwStOpp3r]

ohh man,,this is what everyone dreams about...to find such a piece is almost priceless,,think of the memory and story you have for a lifetime..congrats

 

[justdon]

Very awesome.Congrats to you.HH.

 

[collector69]

That is awesome!

 

[digger27]

So jealous!
On the top of my bucket list for sure, but so rare I hope to find just one in my lifetime.
A huge congratZ!