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WINNER #1
My Favorite Find for March 2014 is the 1st Century Gold Roman Aureus Coin. This large 8.98 gram beauty was found by Stefan D. from Austria.
Stefan shares the search. “I want to share the story with you of my best find. I have been searching with the GTI 2500 for one year now and I had a lot of super finds, but one day I went to the woods where hundreds of hunters were searching for Roman coins before me. There I found about 30 roman copper coins in 3 hours then it was about to get dark so I was going to the car, but I was still searching. Then I had a deep signal where I wasn’t sure, should I dig it out or not? I removed some earth and the signal was getting better! It was next to a tree and in 15 cm depth I saw a big, fat root and I knew it was under it. So I dug my way around the root. It took me about half an hour and suddenly a big gold coin tipped over! My first reaction was "Oh my god that can’t be!" :) First i got scared then shocked then the adrenalin overflew me.”
Stefan tells the details. “I took it in my hand and I saw it’s not the usual Roman Aureus. Next day I went to the museum near to me. They told me it’s a double solidus (8.98 grams), and that’s an extremely rare coin. Such coins have been used to buy something expensive like plot or to pay off a big shipload or for bribery. By that find, Garrett’s detectors got me for a lifetime! It’s not the coin I found, it’s the fact that a few hundreds of hunters went over it and couldn’t get a signal! And I’m sure there will be many more great findings with that great metal detector!”
Very impressive pristine golden Roman beauty! It took my breath away. Great job!
Stefan D. WINS a Garrett AT Gold!
Stefan shares the search. “I want to share the story with you of my best find. I have been searching with the GTI 2500 for one year now and I had a lot of super finds, but one day I went to the woods where hundreds of hunters were searching for Roman coins before me. There I found about 30 roman copper coins in 3 hours then it was about to get dark so I was going to the car, but I was still searching. Then I had a deep signal where I wasn’t sure, should I dig it out or not? I removed some earth and the signal was getting better! It was next to a tree and in 15 cm depth I saw a big, fat root and I knew it was under it. So I dug my way around the root. It took me about half an hour and suddenly a big gold coin tipped over! My first reaction was "Oh my god that can’t be!" :) First i got scared then shocked then the adrenalin overflew me.”
Stefan tells the details. “I took it in my hand and I saw it’s not the usual Roman Aureus. Next day I went to the museum near to me. They told me it’s a double solidus (8.98 grams), and that’s an extremely rare coin. Such coins have been used to buy something expensive like plot or to pay off a big shipload or for bribery. By that find, Garrett’s detectors got me for a lifetime! It’s not the coin I found, it’s the fact that a few hundreds of hunters went over it and couldn’t get a signal! And I’m sure there will be many more great findings with that great metal detector!”
Very impressive pristine golden Roman beauty! It took my breath away. Great job!
Stefan D. WINS a Garrett AT Gold!
