Thanks everyone! Yeah Many years of detecting and I really don’t find much gold - if I do it’s obviously jewelry and gold plated or something. I don’t do beach detecting - I wish I could. A ton of silver and copper for sure!
So the coin was about 8 inches deep. On my etrac it came up as 12-11. I use a DETECH Excelerator EQ2 Pro 10x14 Double D coil. I absolutely LOVE this coil. Highly recommend.
Congratulations! On a night hunt no less! Very cool things seem to happen when the World is asleep. Little metal discs are like baby turtles...they feel safe enough to come up a bit at night for some reason...Once, under a Full Moon, I witnessed a whole hatching of Barber Quarters flipping themselves across a parking lot...damndest thing!
Just curious if you had it authenticated at a reputable coin shop. I remember reading several forum posts of counterfeit 1853 gold dollars. Some were actually made of gold though.