What are the odds of finding a gold coin?

[ZumbroKid]

I heard several different versions of the answer to this one. What ones have you all heard?

 

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[ZumbroKid]

Zeb, it is a small D variety too. I have not found out if that is worth more than the regular D.

 

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[Michigan Badger]

Specialist collecting is rather complex and there is a special group who specialize in this variety.

If you put "Dahlonega Mint Coin" into google you'll find lots of reading.

One thing I like about your coin is it appears to still have some of its dug antiqued gold tone. Gold does take on a certain darker reddish/yellow tone if buried a long time.

The mistake many make is they clean their gold coins to make them shiny. People will buy coins online and say to themselves: "I can make this look better." So they clean it with soap and buff it. To the naked eye it looks great...big mistake!

Keep digging those D's 8)

 

[Born2Dtect]

Back when gold coins were in use about 1 in 10,000 coins were gold. I would think however they were not the most lost coin by type; penny, nickle, dime etc.

Also as a detecting club member with 50 members. There have been 5 gold coins found in over twenty years by only 4 people. Not real good odds.

If you go where the coins were in wider use, out west, you could in crease your odds.

Ed Donovan

 

[hollowpointred]

i never get tired of looking at that dug dahlonega! what could be a better find?!

 

[lonewolfe]

Dahlonega Mint! WOW!


You have any idea what the odds are against finding one of those? I'd say it's at least 1000 times easier to find a common mint $5 gold piece than a D mint!

Ain't that the truth!?

 

[hollowpointred]

i never get tired of looking at that dug dahlonega! what could be a better find?!

They must be getting common, HPR...this is the second one that has been posted here on TNet?

 

[lonewolfe]

i never get tired of looking at that dug dahlonega! what could be a better find?!

They must be getting common, HPR...this is the second one that has been posted here on TNet?

Yeah, but, by the "same guy"!!

 

[stoney56]

LOL But hey, when ya got it, flaunt it. 8)