Old fairground yields big silver and tiny gold!!Two firsts

[paul1410]

A simply awesome find, boot! This one ranks as one of the best single coins found on this site.

Super post and pics too! This has been a very enlightening post!

Thanks for sharing and congrats!

 

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[packerbacker]

Great finds, all of them!

 

[dfxmatt]

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The seated and the gold are awesome!.......but guess what?........what people aren't telling you is that your 1875 victoria quarter starts out at $250 in worst shape. I know cause i have one too :P.......here's mine.

 

[vw]

The half DISME was a rare find. This dollar could be rarer. Nice! congrats!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I am still waiting for my first!

Great find! WTG!

 

[Dman]

Great finds

 

[bootstrap vinn]

Hi everyone,Thanks for all your replies!It's been almost overwhelming and I sorta feel bad that I can't respond to each and every one of you individually but I'm a hunt and peck guy when it comes to typing so this is going to take me forever.First,thank you to Jeff for recommending my coin for the banner section and getting it in,it is truly a pleasure to see it up there!Next thanks to any of you who may have recommended it,it is appreciated!Now for a few personal responses.Hey playah,How 'bout that,your the Cali. guy,you should be sending me pics of these coins,not the other way around,LOL.I know theres got to be a few of these around there for you to snag,Now go get 'em!!Hey Eathen,thanks for the info but that was a typo it should have read 1874 on the Canadian quarter.Thanks to Rich for his research and links they were very enlightening.To everyone else just remember the wait can end quickly perhaps with the next swing of your detector!FYI that coin was in about three inches and in an air test I get it at about 4-1/2" running disc. just high enough to reject most nails and steel bottle caps.Thanks again, Bootstrap

 

[Smokey]

Now those are beautiful finds you got there!!!!...WTG

55TXBANDIT

 

[eathan]

BTW, to the site admins, the coin link in the banner goes to the diamond ring thread.

 

[Wimberley Digger]

awesome finds!!!! that's the coolest gold piece i've seen since i've joined tnet!
keep it in the dirt, dfx texan - randy

 

[Ron B]

Wow, what a day MR. BOOTSTRAP VINN!
Where do you buy your boots?

GRB

 

[WinnGoldDigger]

Fantastic finds. The gold coin is incredible. I'd have had to seek medical attention if I ever found a gold.

 

[wildrider]

Nice coin. All I can say is WOW!

Burt

 

[El Cooter]

Its IN pretty good shape. They were struck rather poorly. Great find. cooter

 

[coolcash2004]

Great finds, congrats!

HH!

-CC

 

[LuisTH]

Congrats on your finds. Love that gold coin.

 

[Mainedigger]

Bootstrap...now that is what I call a totally AWESOME day!!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!! Hope you went right out and played your powerball numbers after a day like that, for your luck was running high that day!!!

 

[Yarrum]

I hate to use a 'dirty' word like value. But have you found out what it's worth yet?

 

[mudslideslim]

wow!

i have only seen those little california gold coins in books - awesome!!!!!!
hh
slim

 

[bootstrap vinn]

Thanks 55 bandit,Eathan thanks for the heads up,I'm trying to get the link problem resolved.Thanks texan,I think it's pretty cool,never thought I'd see one in a plug I dug.Hey GRB no need for formalities,Boot will do just fine and my boots come from wally world unfortunately.Winn,I was so worked up after I found it I sat down and turned my detector off to take it all in and when I got back up I went right back detecting with my detector off for about five minutes,Duh .My sentiments exactly wildrider!Thanks Coot,Coolcash and Luis.Maine digger,good to hear from ya,thanks for the PM I'll check it out.I'm lining up a similar site right now,I'm still shooting the same site but only got an 1882 IHP yesterday so I"m gonna do a little more research as to how this place was set up and in the meantime try out this new site,hopefully it'll be similar!My head wasn't on straight or I would have played the lottery.Yarrum,no I still don't have a value but I have my fingers crossed.Slim,I wish I had a coin book that gave the value of this coin it's still a mystery for now but I'll have more time to research it this weekend.Thanks again to all and keep "pluggin'" away at it.If your odds of finding something like this are a million to one today and you go metal detecting then your odds are 999,999 to one tomorrow it's a matter of time if you can outlive the odds.Bootstrap