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WINNER #1
My U.S. favorite find for March 2018 is the 1970 University of Tennessee Gold Class Ring, found by Barbara B. with her AT Pro.
Barbara's story: I attended the recent Charles Garrett hunt in Jefferson, Texas and was inspired by Vaughan's talk to submit a recent exciting find.
I was detecting a subdivision that had been torn down. I came across a nice solid signal and was shocked to dig up a HUGE gold class of 1970 University of Tennessee class ring about 4-5 inches deep. As my husband was calculating the price of gold, I was already composing an email to the University of Tennessee Alumni Association to help me find the owner. After a few emails back and forth, the ring owner was identified as a local surgeon, Stephan S. Coincidentally, he had actually done surgery on my arm about 25 years earlier! I excitedly contacted him and made arrangements to re-unite him with his long lost ring. A reward was offered, and quickly turned down... returning the ring to its rightful owner was a far greater reward than any amount of money!
Much to my surprise, my Facebook started blowing up a couple of weeks later, and I found that the story had been reported on multiple news stations and in newspapers as far away as Denmark and Brazil. I was quite speechless, and I won't be forgetting the experience for a long while. Thank you, Barbara
Barbara B. WINS a Garrett Z-Lynk™ Wireless System!
Barbara's story: I attended the recent Charles Garrett hunt in Jefferson, Texas and was inspired by Vaughan's talk to submit a recent exciting find.
I was detecting a subdivision that had been torn down. I came across a nice solid signal and was shocked to dig up a HUGE gold class of 1970 University of Tennessee class ring about 4-5 inches deep. As my husband was calculating the price of gold, I was already composing an email to the University of Tennessee Alumni Association to help me find the owner. After a few emails back and forth, the ring owner was identified as a local surgeon, Stephan S. Coincidentally, he had actually done surgery on my arm about 25 years earlier! I excitedly contacted him and made arrangements to re-unite him with his long lost ring. A reward was offered, and quickly turned down... returning the ring to its rightful owner was a far greater reward than any amount of money!
Much to my surprise, my Facebook started blowing up a couple of weeks later, and I found that the story had been reported on multiple news stations and in newspapers as far away as Denmark and Brazil. I was quite speechless, and I won't be forgetting the experience for a long while. Thank you, Barbara
Barbara B. WINS a Garrett Z-Lynk™ Wireless System!
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WINNER #2
My second U.S. favorite find for March 2018 is the 12 Mark, Denmark, 1761 Gold Coin, found by Jason B. from Connecticut with his AT Pro.
Jason's story: I recently bought my Garrett AT Pro about three weeks ago. Most of my finds have been pocket change, bottle tabs, bottle caps, and tin foil. You wouldn't believe how many times I thought tin foil was gold! But there was one day that I rang up a 49-50 on the display. The tone was very solid and I had never seen those numbers before in that succession. In the back of mind I'm thinking, it's gold, it's gold, but the logical part of my brain started kicking in saying, it's just another piece of foil or a pop tab.
So I grabbed my trusty trowel and started digging a plug. After I popped the plug out I saw something really shiny. To myself I said, oh great, another gold colored pop tab. But as soon as I brought it closer to my face its shape rounded out and I saw a man's head. I very carefully brushed some dirt away. My heart started pounding. I truly couldn't believe it. After racing home I further inspected the coin. It was a 12 Mark gold piece from Denmark. The date, 1761, still legible. It is far from being in good shape, and someone soldered a frame around it, but to me it is my first great discovery, the true diamond in the rough.
Jason B. WINS a Garrett Z-Lynk™ Wireless System!
Jason's story: I recently bought my Garrett AT Pro about three weeks ago. Most of my finds have been pocket change, bottle tabs, bottle caps, and tin foil. You wouldn't believe how many times I thought tin foil was gold! But there was one day that I rang up a 49-50 on the display. The tone was very solid and I had never seen those numbers before in that succession. In the back of mind I'm thinking, it's gold, it's gold, but the logical part of my brain started kicking in saying, it's just another piece of foil or a pop tab.
So I grabbed my trusty trowel and started digging a plug. After I popped the plug out I saw something really shiny. To myself I said, oh great, another gold colored pop tab. But as soon as I brought it closer to my face its shape rounded out and I saw a man's head. I very carefully brushed some dirt away. My heart started pounding. I truly couldn't believe it. After racing home I further inspected the coin. It was a 12 Mark gold piece from Denmark. The date, 1761, still legible. It is far from being in good shape, and someone soldered a frame around it, but to me it is my first great discovery, the true diamond in the rough.
Jason B. WINS a Garrett Z-Lynk™ Wireless System!
