Best weekend of detecting EVER! 1861 Double Eagle and lots of BIG silver!

[crimson]

Congratulations!.... and I want to thank you for posting this story. I've been detecting less than a year now and I've only dug junky relics and lots and lots of can slaw. Your story gives me some motivation to get back out there and try harder!!

[coinMD64]

Best coin find I ever seen!!! Congrats on your huge 1861 $20 gold coin!!!!!!

[james v]

awsome find rattlehead! did u ever sleep that week....tks for posting

[BillZ]

That's what dreams are made of!
Nice going rattlehead!

[solcalpete]

Find of the century.

[Rattlehead]

Thank you all very much! I'll be going back pretty much every weekend and posting any new finds in this thread.

Originally Posted by james v

awsome find rattlehead! did u ever sleep that week....tks for posting

lol. No I didn't really sleep at all the first weekend. Heck I still catch myself laying awake at night thinking about getting back out there.

[Gunn]

so awesome! love this thread! keep us updated!

[mandad76]

Awesome....congratulations!!! I think ya found a scattered cache....and there's prolly more to be found. gl and hh

[littfam]

What this hobby is all about! Congrats, and thanks for giving us all inspiration to go out and search for our finds of a lifetime.

[bardklb]

what an awesome find! Thanks to grandma! How exicited was she?

[Mr. Haney]

Amazing.

[napp]

Absolutely amazing find. Congratulations isn't a strong enough word!

It must sadden you, though, to realize a site like that has no chance to renew itself....you know, like a nice Totlot can.

[Rattlehead]

Thanks guys.

I went back to the site for a little while over the weekend. Unfortunately it started raining and I didn't get to do much detecting. I didn't find a single coin this time. :/ I know theres more to be found though, just gotta hold out for some better weather.

Originally Posted by bardklb

what an awesome find! Thanks to grandma! How exicited was she?

She doesn't get too excited about anything.. When I showed it to her, she just said "thats purdy". lol

[JBEXPRESS]

Holy Cow!! How did I miss this!!!!! Awesome finds!! Congrats!!!!

[RyanChappell]

Are you discriminating out the lower conductivity targets?

There could have been smaller gold coins in this cache.

A $5 Gold piece comes in a tad lower than a Zincoln. A $10 Gold piece comes in a tad lower than a copper penny, but higher than a Zincoln, about like a wine screw cap. The $1 comes in a tad lower than a nickel, and a $2.50 a tad higher than you average pull tab.

Just wondering!

I know you don't have an E-Trac but here are the VDIs for an E-Trac:

US gold 1 dollar 12-11
US gold 2.5 dollar 12-22
US gold 5 dollar 12-31
US gold 10 dollar 12-38
US gold 20 dollar 12-44
Nickel 12-13
Bud twist off 12-25
Zincoln 12-36
Dime 12-44

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by JBEXPRESS

Holy Cow!! How did I miss this!!!!! Awesome finds!! Congrats!!!!

Thank you.

Originally Posted by RyanChappell

Are you discriminating out the lower conductivity targets?

There could have been smaller gold coins in this cache.

A $5 Gold piece comes in a tad lower than a Zincoln. A $10 Gold piece comes in a tad lower than a copper penny, but higher than a Zincoln, about like a wine screw cap. The $1 comes in a tad lower than a nickel, and a $2.50 a tad higher than you average pull tab.

Just wondering!

I know you don't have an E-Trac but here are the VDIs for an E-Trac:

US gold 1 dollar 12-11
US gold 2.5 dollar 12-22
US gold 5 dollar 12-31
US gold 10 dollar 12-38
US gold 20 dollar 12-44
Nickel 12-13
Bud twist off 12-25
Zincoln 12-36
Dime 12-44

Ryan,
The first weekend I was digging anything in the nickel range on up, and skipping most broken signals. But after finding the gold coin, I've started grid searching the area, digging everything that reads +5 on up, broken or not. I'm going to pull every piece of metal out of the ground at this site before I'm done with it.

[Silver Strike]

Wow. Yup , I'd hang it up. You'll never hit that high again..just chasin the dragon now.

[clgman001]

UNREAL! Way to go my man!

[minnowtizer]

Im still in awe! my god man!

[chicagoron]

OMFG! That is the coolist story I have heard in years! Congrats an sticking with it and such a huge score!