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I dug my first $5 gold coin in December (1865-S), and it came in just like a shotgun butt. I was using the Nokta Impact at a new site a friend and I had been working for a while in the desert. It was a solid mid-conductor signal and just a few inches deep.
I dug my first $5 gold coin in December (1865-S), and it came in just like a shotgun butt. I was using the Nokta Impact at a new site a friend and I had been working for a while in the desert. It was a solid mid-conductor signal and just a few inches deep.
Tony,
Your welcome
We both know that sound is the best method of determining if we should dig.
We both know you cant help yourself by looking at the VDI #
How is sound better than v.i.d. When I used the minelab sovereign I dug 3 different walking liberty halfs that sounded so bad that if I was going by sound only I would have just walked on by.
I actually bought an 1851 $1 Gold to get numbers off of it! I was showing it to one of my customers and told him the next one I was going to buy was a $2.50 Gold.
He told me a story of him in 1975 in his bank at his safe deposit box. He saw a penny on the floor and picked it up and threw it on the counter. It sounded different, so he picked it back up and discovered it was a $2.50 Gold Indian! 1914 D! He turned it in to the teller, who took his name down. A few weeks later he returned to the bank and the teller told him they called everyone that had a safe deposit box and no one claimed it, so they gave it to him!
I went to his house a couple weeks later to collect for some work that I did for him, and he had my bill and a check already written, but, he said, "I have an envelope you may be interested in". He handed me the envelope signed by the teller in 1975 and said it's yours! "I've had it in my safe deposit box for 43 years and never looked at it! You would enjoy it lots more than I ever did!" I was shocked! Are you kidding? He said, just let me know how much I owe you next year! Wow, I'll be doing his yearly maintainence next year now and am already paid! $2.50 for two years maintainence, what a deal!!! I love this guy!!!
