Hello Whites!

Last Sunday I was hunting a hayfield in my hometown and came across a Colonial foundation just inside the wood line at the entrance to the field. The area was littered with iron nails.... more ferrous targets than what seemed normal. So I decided to slow it down and use Mixed Mode to help pick the good targets out of all the bad.

After finding some flat buttons and a few shotgun shells I had a nice +35 VDI reading at about 7" deep, and proceeded to dig. The target was still in the hole after my first shovel full, so with the next dig I had the target inside the new clump of dirt. As I picked up the chunk of Earth and broke it in two, I caught what looked to be a gold edge of something....which was very strange....since I "knew" that this +35 target was a pull tab or something like it.

Well, let me say that I almost passed out when the rest of the dirt was removed from the target...revealing the most beautiful 1851 $2 1/2 Dollar Gold piece!!! I stared at it for what seemed an eternity muttering "NO WAY....NO WAY!!!". This is my first Gold Coin in over 20yrs of detecting....and I thank Whites for putting out this great machine that was able to 'Cherry Pick' the coin out of all the ferrous targets that were in the area.

The coin has no mint mark and is the most popular type made that year. It has some edge nicks where it was probably hit by a plow at one time...but that means very little to me. To me it is the find of a lifetime....and without my Whites XLT it would not have been found.

Thanks for Everything and keep making the BEST!

Sincerely,
Hank E