12-34 Zinc signal = GOLD!!! Largest gold yet for me! *pics video, headstamps*

[Bonesquat]

Started off today with the mindset of, "I'm going to dig a piece of gold today. I will dig EVERYTHING, regardless of how many signals I come across".
I felt like a soccer field in a park would produce some...



First interesting item I dug was this.



The next few signals produced more trash and these.


I'm doing a grid search and BAM, 14-32, 12-34, numbers like that (zinc penny signal). I put the lesche in the ground and popped the purposed zincoln...





SCORE at the soccer goal posts!!! Found it a few feet away. I figured some guy was blocking the ball when this ring flew off his hand.

Took it to my detecting Buddy, Ray, to get it polished up at his dental work place. This burly guy Ray works with polished it up and look at it now.




Oh and I found about $4 in clad. I couldn't be happier with the results of today. You gotta dig those zinc signals. Thanks for looking and HH.

[fred sanford]

Congrats Rick. Looks like I am going to stop ignoring the Zinc's. Very nice ring.Makes you wonder how many rings and gold you have ignored in the past. No gold yet for me on the Etrac. Glad to see you could get out.

[lucky_c]

Gotta love finding gold.

[JBEXPRESS]

YAY!!! Awesome job bro!!!! I knew you could do it!! Thats a nice piece of gold buddy!!! Excellent job!

[Spm673 (The Jersey Digger)]

That's awesome Rick. You deserve that puppy. Can you say "my precious"? It does pay to dig those zinc signals. My Reale rang up as zinc. I would think that ring would ring in as a nickel signal. Huge congrats bro!!!

[turtlefoot]

Sweet find Rick! Congratulations. Glad to see that you are still getting out. If the rain holds off, I am going to try to get out for a little while tomorrow myself. Congrats on the gold once again!

Doug

[Captain Silver]

Nice work on the gold, congratulations on a great find!

[RyanChappell]

Nice find! Huge band. The diameter really got the CO up. People put their stuff down next to the goals. I bet it was put down next to his keys and other junk and someone knocked it over.

It is really hard to dig every pull tab and zincoln (99% junk) with an e-trac, when it is so good at finding quarters and dimes.(90+% coins) I almost always dig less common, semi-weird numbers, that I hope have better percentages, than pull-tabs, like 12-28, 12-32, 12-13, 12-8, 12-5, and neighboring numbers. I got a trolley token at 12-34, and other tokens there. I will occasionally bear down and a lot of pulltabs and zincolns.

[Jo ann]

Congrads on the hunk of gold!!

[RyanChappell]

Originally Posted by fred sanford

Congrats Rick. Looks like I am going to stop ignoring the Zinc's. Very nice ring.Makes you wonder how many rings and gold you have ignored in the past. No gold yet for me on the Etrac. Glad to see you could get out.

Pulltabs probably have more gold dig percentages than zincolns, but you also get tokens and IHs at zincolns.

[snf101480]

You did great, nice job on the gold!

[gameoftag]

Thats the real deal. Congrats. Still waiting for my first.

[Bonesquat]

Thanks everyone for the comments. It was a blast seeing that sucker in the hole. You guys know how exciting it is seeing that bright gold band in the dirt (erm clay in my case).

[dogpound]

congrats, thats a sweet score

[WildDigger]

Congrats on the gold. It is a nice one.

[DIGGER27]

Congratz, Rick!

The very reason I started this thread...
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=92200

[mdtrapper]

Congrat's sweet, sweet gold.

[David in DC]

Congrat, Rick...fantastic find!

[DixieLandMan]

DAM Gina! Great find, Rick!

[Bonesquat]

Originally Posted by DIGGER27

Congratz, Rick!

The very reason I started this thread...
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=92200

Thanks to your wise words and experience with zinc, that's one of the reasons I dug a ton of them. Of course this signal sounded like a corroded zinc. VDIs suggested that.