Gold Coin Club......Post your pics here

[NH Bob]

If you will take a little trip to the Coinist Forum where I have belonged for more than 6 years. Simply ask your question there as I use the same user name. And let the folks answer your question. But once you have your answer, please bring it back here and post it.
Deal, or no Deal??

 

[NH Bob]

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[Elton]

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[NH Bob]

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[NH Bob]

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[Elton]

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[mattockman]

Rich....I work on a campus and the biggest problem with it is the digsafe laws that they and all the State are suppose to heed to. Stick anything in the ground you need a digsafe permit. Its all about liability, or covering their butt! That and the grounds and roads crew hate it when you disturb their turf.....Lord forbid you hit a root......OMG.....Tree huggers!!! This is one old Campus and I am sure full of oldies....I hunted one of the vollyball sand courts Just to stay safe and walked away with 2 pockets chuck full of clad and a few silver jewlery pcs......but never ventured any further. I knew all the campus security and cops....but didn't want to push it.

 

[digitrich]

This I learned watching gold prospecting shows and such. Basically, gold coins simply circulated more in the West. People in the West dealt with Indian raids, outlaws and such, kept their money more condensed and rarely had their savings in banks, as they were usually further away form them than Easterners, and the banks in the West frequently got robbed. Transportation of currency West was in larger denominations to make the actually weight and size of the cache lighter and easier to handle and hide if necessary. Imagine carrying 1000 Silver dollars in a wagon from Mass. to Montana. 20, fifty dollar gold coins might be easier. It's like the Dahlonega mint in Georgia, (gold coins with the D mint mark) more than 95% of the gold coins minted there were shipped West and never circulated in the Georgia or Eastern economies. You would have better luck to find one of those in Cal., Oregon, or Nevada then you would in Georgia itself. That's just what I have gathered trying to figure out how I can score one, here in the Midwest. I believe also that in the West, paper money wasn't as trusted or as frequently used as it could not safely be buried and dug up, was lost quickly in fires, and wasn't as hardy as gold, and couldn't be traded with the Indians, which I believe the US paid in gold????

 

[Elton]

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[DonNWF]

I usually post on the Sov forum but your answer interested me because like all coin hunters the GOLD is at the top of my list. I live near Pensacola Fl ( a very old city). I wanted to check my odds of finding a gold coin in this area because of the close proximity to the New Orleans Mint . During the Gold period up until 1862 New Orleans and Pensacola were the two major Gulf Coast Shipping areas .I figured my chance of finding O-mintage gold would be better than finding other mint issues. I did not examine Georgia mint but figured some of that gold might have migrate to this area . Here is the New Orleans mintage $1.00---458,000,, 2.50===1,000,000 , 5.00-------600,000, 10.00----1,795,000 No Twenty.Dollar Gold..

Well we know for a fact that one of the 1.00 O,s was found in St :Louis last year. So some of it migrated North and West. Even figuring that all upright citizens in this area turned in theirt gold coins as required by law there has to be some lost here with over 3,000,000 put in circulation within 250 miles of my hunting areas. Did most of the N.O. Mint gold migrate out of the area? You wouldnt think so.
10 years hunting - NO GOLD, No "O" GOLD, NO "D" GOLD, never heard of any gold finds here. I'm still looking. Lets see , one in St louis, some turned in, some lost whats the odds.
HH Don..

 

[digitrich]

If I lived in Florida, I would be looking for a winter storm to wash up some silver Reals and Gold coins up on their coast line, that's where your best bet for gold is and according to the Mel Fisher Museum at Wabasso beach, hundreds of detectorists and tourist have found them, especially after winter storms. That info I posted in the above post I got from the Dahlonega gold museum in Dahlonega Georgia where I visited this past winter. I had high hopes of finding some gold coins and I was told "not likely" as not many have ever been found there, in Georgia.

 

[doindadiggin]

Well fellow members not to be out done on the gold coin issue i will post my one and only goldie i found it at the beach after a BIG wash away nearly 15 feet of sand went overnight i could not count the coins i dug at this spot but it was in the hundreds ,and unlike america when you find a heap of coins over here in australia you really have some bucks as we have a one dollar coin and a two dollar coin a fifty cent piece a twenty cent piece a ten cent and a five cent so we dont rely on just rings for instance in the last three days detecting the local beaches i have netted over sixty dollars 3 silver rings and today a 18crt mens wedding band

 

[dljones54]

In a town in Europe, the temperature on December 29, 1990 was 26 degrees and it was so cold that there was a layer of ice on top of the coil of my White's 6000 Di Pro which I had bought four years earlier back in the States. I had been metal-detecting since 1976 and had heard stories about silver dollars being found all across the United States. Although I had wanted to find one so badly that I could almost taste it, so to speak, I had never found a silver dollar in all the years I had been detecting! But, Dec. 29, 1990 would be the day that I found something even better! There was a huge downtown park, where Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show had performed in 1906, that I, and a couple of my buddies, had hunted extensively and, on the above date, I wondered where in the park I should hunt next. After chaining my 18-speed Peugeot mountain bike to a lamp-post, I spotted a tree in the park which seemed to be standing there all by itself in an area we had not yet hunted. As I made a bee-line for the tree, I found a coin dated 1925, about four feet from the sidewalk. Further out in the park, I found a beat-up World War II machine gun shell. When I got to the tree, I began searching around the base and found nothing, until I got back to the side of the tree where I had started. I picked up a solid signal and on the detector's numerical scale, which ran from 0 to 100, the target registered 52. But, the needle was also lying across the O on the word "gold"! At first, I thought I had found another Italian 200 Lire coin which is gold in color (while overseas, I found coins from 25 different countries). When I dug down about three inches, out popped a golden-colored coin, covered in sand. With a toothbrush I always carried, I gently brushed the sand away and realized that it wasn't an Italian 200 Lire coin. There was an Indian head on the front of the coin with the date, 1909, below it. I thought, "That's strange! It's not a 200 Lire piece!" But, I didn't know what I had found, until I brushed off the back side. I saw an American eagle with the words "Five dollars" underneath it, along with an O mintmark. To say I was shocked would be an understatement! Here was a 1909 O Indian Head Five Dollar Gold Piece, an American coin, several thousand miles away from the mint where it was produced! However, someone had tacked a solid gold loop on the top edge, so it could be worn as a necklace piece. Boy, was I glad that they had lost it! Unfortunately, I can't show you a photo of it at this point in time, as it is locked away in a VERY safe place, along with my other European finds, which includes a 2,000 year old Roman coin with Caesar Augustus' face on it. If you've never heard of him, you can find him mentioned in the Bible, book of Luke, chapter 2, verse 1, where it tells the story of Joseph's and Mary's trip to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Now, that I'm living back in the States, I'm hoping to find gold coins, in the near future, which haven't traveled quite as far as my first gold coin find. When I find one, I'll let you know!