badmojoman
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Holy cow!! I bet your knees were shaking!
Best weekend of detecting EVER! 1861 Double Eagle and lots of BIG silver!
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coin chaser
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He had a winking smiley behind that statement. I'm thinking he is trying to say he doesn't have them anymore. So now no one can bother trying to clam them and it's not like he sold them so he doesn't need to worry about paying taxes on any profits he would have made!
Rattlehead
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Thanks for the kind words guys. It has been an adventure hunting this place for sure.
Grrr..
I still can't help but wonder what else is there and would have been found if you had a MINELAB!!!
Grrr..
helgriffan
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Purely speechless....Although it is hard to talk when my jaw is dragging on the floor...
This is one of the most amazing finds i have ever heard of. Let alone in the united states. And with a Metal detector to boot! Truly something we will never see like this again! Congratulations... This made my day! Also did you find any super rare dated coins?
helgriffan
This is one of the most amazing finds i have ever heard of. Let alone in the united states. And with a Metal detector to boot! Truly something we will never see like this again! Congratulations... This made my day! Also did you find any super rare dated coins?
helgriffan
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Purely speechless....Although it is hard to talk when my jaw is dragging on the floor...
This is one of the most amazing finds i have ever heard of. Let alone in the united states. And with a Metal detector to boot! Truly something we will never see like this again! Congratulations... This made my day! Also did you find any super rare dated coins?
helgriffan
Thank you.
Of the silver coins, I found a few semi key dated barber dimes and a semi key CC quarter. Nothing super rare. Some of the most valuable silver coins were the 1917 and 1918 standing liberty quarters in excellent condition (found a variety of them). With the way the SLQ was designed, the dates wear off really quickly on those in circulation. All of the ones I found had really good detail with the dates still perfectly readable. You can see a couple of them in this picture:
That was obviously before cleaning. They cleaned up really nice and all of them looked at least as good, if not better than the ones in the pic above.
gordonquixote
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Wow, D...it's nice to see this thread come full circle...the updated pics are mind blowing! 
Have you pushed the berm piles flat yet and detected them?
Too bad about the boat accident...I lost all my guns in a similar manner...tragic.
Have you pushed the berm piles flat yet and detected them?
Too bad about the boat accident...I lost all my guns in a similar manner...tragic.
dirt weasel
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In most states the treasure trove goes to the finder as long as they are not trespassing and is taxable at its value in us dollars as normal income in the year in which it is found or undisputed ownership is established... IMO To much info and picks. Congratulations and good luck.
Rattlehead
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well, i guess i can now delete the 4-5 super old messages with the pictures now that you've posted them here.(yes i loved them so much that i kept them this long in my inbox) Glad to see you're unleashing your true greatness.
Hahah! I still have them too. From two+ years ago. In fact, I just showed them to a friend a week ago.
So happy to see you come out with your finals. Without a doubt the most epic score on fmdf. Hope you're doing well.
Now...I need to get busy finding my dream cache!
Donneybrook
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haha thats great.
Bulette
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What a haul! That's pretty darn amazing. Congratulations!
Coppertop
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I'm just awestruck at your finds and really happy for you.
A big thank you for sharing these finds with the world.
You did good by keeping your composure all these years and waiting
To post the final tally.
Congrats
A big thank you for sharing these finds with the world.
You did good by keeping your composure all these years and waiting
To post the final tally.
Congrats
61chip
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That is the hunt of all time! (Well, several hunts). Started reading this last night, and just finished up. What a story -- complete with the finds of a lifetime! Wondered how I had missed this post, then realized I hadn't joined the forum till after it was started.
Major congrats, Rattlehead! And thanks so much for taking us all on your adventure
Major congrats, Rattlehead! And thanks so much for taking us all on your adventure
Rattlehead
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Thanks for the comments guys.
4 years later and you are still putting up YouTube videos of new finds ... You have used up about 20 of the rest of us mere mortals "Best finds ever" dreams with this haul. Since you live in GA google the county name and the words tax assessor. Every county in GA has one, then follow the links to search for the records on the property. It will give you some info, and you can start a more detailed search in the county records with what you find. As a White's guy myself love that the first finds were with the V3. If you have retired it since you got the Minelab ... wanna sell?
Rattlehead
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Thanks!
Thanks man! Yeah, still finding a few random coins here and there that were masked by iron junk in some of the extremely trashy areas. Looking for these masked coins has really helped me to learn and understand the detectors I've been using. It's been a blessing all the way around. Definitely the most exciting place I've hunted for as long as I've been in this hobby. I sold the V3i to a member here several months ago.
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I'm still in shock. After 20+ years of detecting I've made some pretty nice finds, but this one ranks right at the top of my list!
This all started about a week ago when I was telling my 83 year old grandmother about getting a new detector and getting back into this great hobby. I had never bothered to do any detecting on her property because her house is fairly new so I didn't figure it would have anything old around it. But she told me that I should detect there because shortly before my grandfather died, he had found a silver dollar laying right on top of the ground. So this immediately got my interest. I asked her where he found it.. She replied "I don't know.. he just said he saw it on the ground while riding his tractor".. So I'm thinking its most likely the garden area then! I packed up my detector last Friday and went to search the garden. After spending most of the day detecting, all I had found was some iron junk and a new penny. Bummer. I gave up and went home.
That night I was laying in bed wondering where else he might have been riding a tractor.. Then it hit me! I remembered several years ago that he had been using a bulldozer to clean off a patch of woods on their 25 acres! Maybe that was the tractor she was referring to?
So the next day it had been raining but I didn't care.. I went back and found the area that he had cleared. After about 3 hours of finding absolutely nothing, I finally had my first good signal. The ID on the V3i was bouncing back and forth between quarter and dime at 7" deep. So I dropped to my knees and started digging in the soft muddy ground.. After taking out a few big scoops of dirt, I saw something that will put a big smile on the face of any THer. It was the rim of a silver coin.. a Barber Quarter! I knew right then I had stumbled onto the right area!
So I continued swinging and within no more than 5 minutes I had another signal.. This time a seated dime at just two inches deep! As I was filling in the hole I saw another coin a couple of feet away just sticking half way out of the ground! It was another Barber quarter! Man was I excited!
I continued sweeping the area and within another 30 minutes or so I got a loud (big) signal. I looked down at the Spectra's display and saw the $ symbol. Sure enough, at just an inch or so deep was a beautiful silver Morgan dollar!
By the end of the day I had found two more dimes (a seated and a really early merc), an early walking liberty half, and a seated quarter which was almost worn smooth.
I went home that night and tried my best to get some sleep, but was just too excited. I ended up staying awake all night and leaving at first light to hit the area again. It was raining and very muddy, but I didn't even care.
After about two hours of not getting any signals (other than junk), I was starting to think maybe I had already got all the good stuff the day before.. So I went back to the exact area where I had found the silver dollar and started rescanning it from a different direction, hoping that I had missed something. Sure enough, I got a signal (72 on the VDI I think) that was solid in one direction and broken in the other. I pulled the trigger to pinpoint and just got a really low "growl" from the VCO. It said 11". So I dug out a big plug from the mud and then used to Sunray to try and pinpoint it, but didn't get a signal. I dug down a little deeper and was finally able to pinpoint it. As I pulled it out of the dirt, I first thought I had found another half dollar. But then I cleaned a little more of the dirt off of it and saw something that I had never seen before! It wasn't silver at all! It was GOLD and it was HUGE!My hands were trembling like crazy at this point! As I cleaned off more dirt I could clearly see the words "TWENTY D." on the coin! Flipped it over, saw the 1861 date and almost fainted!
Here it is next to the Silver Dollar for size comparison:
I had never found a gold coin in all of my years of detecting and I would have been thrilled just to find a small one. So I'm sure you can imagine how happy I was to be holding this huge gold coin in my hands! Hell, the excitement still hasn't worn off and its been a couple of days now!
I did continue detecting and found another half dollar and a barber dime, but somehow they didn't seem to excite me nearly as much anymore. All I could think about was that big $20 gold coin in my pocket!
The really funny thing is, just a few weeks ago my wife called metal detecting a "silly hobby". You should have seen the look on her face when I showed her the coin! Priceless! I said to her "how silly is it now" with a big grin on my face.
So totals for the weekend were a beautiful Double Eagle (a first for me, of coarse), a Morgan dollar (also a first), a walking liberty half, a Barber half (first), 2 Barber quarters, 1 seated quarter, 2 seated dimes, 1 Barber dime, and 1 Merc. All coins dated before 1920.
Here's a few more pics from during and after the hunt:
I also found some nice little relics, like a thimble and a few other things but didn't take pictures.
I'm still baffled as to why so many big coins are in this area. Unless someone buried them there, and maybe the bulldozer had spread them out? I don't know, but I'm sure glad I found them!
Up until last weekend I've always preferred relic hunting over coin hunting.. But after this experience, I may just become a coin shooter!
I can understand your last statement, but let me just warn you, after a hunt and finds like these that you'll never top... you will have high expectations, and be spoiled when the next hunts just don't stack up...
Good luck on your future hunts!
Rattlehead
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Thanks ND! I know I'll never top what I've found at this site but honestly I still enjoy hunting other places and digging wheat pennies. lol I love this hobby. The fact that we just never know what will pop out of that next hole is what keeps me interested.
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