Why No Gold coins found?

[1goldsniper]

I am curious as to why we do not find gold coins? The size of some of the gold coins are rather small making one think they would would be lost rather easy such as our dimes and pennies. Than on the other hand there were not intentionally lost coins back in those dates either. But lost is lost.
Where do they come in #"s wise?
And tone wise?

 

[NiagracountyNY]

I think there are a few reasons..1 is there arent many gold coins to be found..People really were more careful with the gold im sure..2 is we tend to avoid those signals sometimes..Gold hits alot like Junk I think we all get burned out sometimes digging it and pass by alot of signals sounding like Nickles/gold/pull tabs.I sure would love to find one tho Good Luck to everyone !! HH

 

[big-ears]

n/t

 

[NiagracountyNY]

Yea a few of the gold coins hit where coins should..I Checked the emulator and a few hit in the pull tab range and a few hit in the Coin range..There were only 4 or 5 coins to test on the emulator file i have.Maybe someone out there has the fe/co Numbers for all the gold coins we might come across here in the US.

 

[Johnny]

I have put the gold coin under the e-trac and hear it is: $1= 12.11, $2 1/2= 12.22, $5= 12.31, $10= 12.38, $20= 12.43... Hope this will help someone, but I have been hunting for 15yrs. and never found one , maybe one day.

 

[Jesse W. McComas]

I found a 1862 Princess head $1.00 Gold Coin at the Blue & Gray hunt in March out in the open field we were hunting within the first hour of the hunt. I listed it back then and it even made the Banner up top. It came in at 12-10-11-12. It was bouncing around a Little, that is why I was digging the signal. So, they can be found. HH...Jesse.

 

[gibsondan]

Like most people, I don't actively pursue gold because of the tremendous amount of junk I'd have to dig to get it. But you can find gold with the E-trac. I'd be more apt to look for gold if I were beach hunting and using a scooper. But so far I've only hunted on land looking for old silver and copper coins. I need to start digging some of those junk numbers...especially deep ones.

 

[bigjohn070]

I think gold coins are more rare, mintage wise
and they drop faster because there gold too.

HH
BIG JOHN

 

[jeff & Maria]

But mostly on the west coast for obvious reasons. Just like Californians hardly find large coppers. Much of the gold in circulation was melted down long ago.

 

[Nick A]

A $5 gold, as I recall, comes in at 12-22, as do a hell of a lot of pulltabs. $2.50 and $1 gold will be even lower. If park hunting, that one gold coin is going to be damn hard to find... and there's no way to pick it out of the trash, except by depth, as theoretically it will be deeper than a tab as it would have been lost before 1933 and tabs came around in 1962. I dig anything in the tab range that is deeper than 3-4" which is where the carpet of tabs falls off.

So three reasons:
1) gold coins give the same reading as tabs and foil
2) they were lost before 1933 so they are going to be deep
a) more stuff on top = more probable masking
b) deeper signals mean less definite signals
3) fewer were lost, you just didn't carry that much money around in those days, and if you lost one it was well worth your time to look for it!

 

[Digger]

Here is what mine read:
$1.00 US Gold coin - 12 / 11
$2.50 US Gold coin - 12 / 22
$5.00 US Gold coin - 12 / 31
$10.00 US Gold coin - 12 / 38
$20.00 US Gold coin - 12 / 43

JMHO HH Randy