Look what I missed
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ben_ks
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HOLY MOLY!!!! Congrats to your friend!
CarsonChris
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? ? ? For Pete's sake, how old is this "dog park" ?
It's situated near downtown old Carson city. My 1878 map of Carson has buildings there. It's been pounded to the point it's hard to pull a penny.
Tom_in_CA
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Did your friend say how deep that was ?
If it was shallow, there's the outside chance that it was mounted as jewelry (but fell out of a bezel or whatever). Since $1 golds are such small coins, they are somethings used as charms or earrings, in modern pieces.
But since there is no bezel (or proof of having been in jewelry), then of course, then a person can claim it as a "coin" (in their boasting privileges) Versus finding a jewelry item.
If it were found right on top, then this might explain it. But assuming any sort of depth, then it becomes a grey area immediately. Because we all know that sometimes a fluke old coin *can* be shallow.
Anyhow, congratz to your friend for the Holy Grail find !
ToySoldier
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Pretty cool.
Around here, a dog park is a fenced in area often inside of a larger park. The largest one I can think of is about half the size of a football field. Others are much smaller. It would be awful to detect. I'm going to assume this was a larger park where dogs are allowed off leash.
kaufenanger
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Holy cow!
Thats the find of a lifetime. Mega congrats to your friend. 
Thats the find of a lifetime. Mega congrats to your friend. 
turtlefoot
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Beautiful coin and amazing find. Holy Grail/bucket lister for sure.
Amazing... how long has she been hunting?
stetam
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Wow. The only problem is you can only go down from there.
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IDXMonster
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What a find though!
CTpilgrim
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That is amazing! Huge congratulations to her
She should mount that in a case, put it on the fireplace mantle and end her detecting hobby right now........ 
I probably would have missed that unless it was shallow, I rarely dig vdi`s under 15.
Huge congrats.....................
I probably would have missed that unless it was shallow, I rarely dig vdi`s under 15.
Huge congrats.....................
CarsonChris
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A long time. She's 70 years young. She had just posted a link to gold ring VDI numbers on her FB page. She was bound and determined to pull a gold ring by digging low numbers. She got the coin instead. It was 3 inches deep. Sounds like there may have been a small scrape off where they removed some sod.
Thats amazing, From the sound of it, she certainly deserves it.
I hope I am still hunting at that age.
Tom_in_CA
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thanx for the back-story. Tell her that this is the hole-in-one of md'rs. Plenty of hard-core guys here that would love to say they've found their first gold coin !
Cherry Picker
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Score!
