My best find ever!!! Gold coin !!!!

[HighTone]

Last Sunday went to the old picnic grounds Ive been hunting for years. It has given me some great finds like a 2cent piece, shield nickles, v nickles, Indian heads, and 4 barber dimes lots of rusty nails and lead. Sunday went down dug a couple pieces of lead then got a solid foil hit ( pretty much dig every thing here ) pinpointed small so i dug it about 3 inches. Seen what i thought was a piece of jewelry seen the initials put it in my pocket and went on. Hunted about another half hour found a 1874 IH and went home. After I got home and my wife asked me what I had found I showed her my IH and what I thought was a piece of jewelry. Then I got to looking at the piece of jewelry and realized there was something on the other side. I got out my magnifying glass and seen the one dollar and the date of 1862 and thought oh ****.This is definitely the find of my life. I'm not sure what the black is on the back of the coin but I'm thinking it might be some sort of glue to hold it into a piece of jewelry. What an awesome find.

[filo]

Holy smokes! Congrats! A gold coin is a gold coin! Fantastic find.

[blkcloud]

That's wonderful!!! but.. what is it???

[gtoast99]

Originally Posted by blkcloud

That's wonderful!!! but.. what is it???

US gold 1 dollar

WOW!!! WAY TO GO!!!! Foil you say? Super impressive find, give us all hope that someday it might happen to us !!!!

[carcur]

congrats on the gold coin thats a great find
curtis

[Kolby72]

Wow that is freaking awesome man!

[NHKeith]

So that looks like a Love Token. People would take real US coins, grind them down to a smooth surface, and then engrave initials or images on them.

I wish you have a better photo of the black marks on the other side of the coin.

NICE FIND!!

[ChunkyMonkey]

sweet! way to go!

[blkcloud]

Originally Posted by NHKeith

So that looks like a Love Token. People would take real US coins, grind them down to a smooth surface, and then engrave initials or images on them.

I wish you have a better photo of the black marks on the other side of the coin.

NICE FIND!!

Love token? that's why I couldnt figure out what it was, I didnt think the gubment would produce anything like that!! thanks!

[Bonesquat]

Too bad they destroyed it but still must be worth quite a bit. What a great find. Can you get better pics of it? Those are ultra low res.

[steve in so az]

You have dug the holy grail of detectorists !! WTG, steve in so az

[groundssweeper]

Good job on the gold!!
What kind of detector do you use?? Did it hit solid foil or was it jumpy?

[Decoybill]

[BUZZ WILSON]

Outstanding!!!!! you should go and get you a maga million lotto ticket with that kind of luck!

[Jamflicker]

Wow, now that is an amazing find.

[HighTone]

Originally Posted by NHKeith

So that looks like a Love Token. People would take real US coins, grind them down to a smooth surface, and then engrave initials or images on them.

I wish you have a better photo of the black marks on the other side of the coin.

NICE FIND!!

I was thinking love token also ive read about them in my old eastern western mags they said they would bend them and drill a hole for a chain. Lot of possibility's here. It just floored me will try to get some better pics. Thanks for your coment

[HighTone]

Thanks will try to get some better pics

[flatcat]

Hope these pics look better. See you at the picnic grounds tonight.

[HighTone]

Originally Posted by groundssweeper

Good job on the gold!!
What kind of detector do you use?? Did it hit solid foil or was it jumpy?

Thanks groundssweeper use in my old Fisher cz6a. Hit solid foil both ways no jumpin.

[HighTone]

Thanks flatcat !!! VERY IMPRESSED WITH YOUR NEW ATPRO !!!! see ya tonite