A find years ago.

Here is the story of our gold coins as best as we can remember the details. I feel real stupid for selling them and not even taking a picture of them.

Way back in the early 70's when I was much younger my wife Carolyn and I went detecting at Bradys Run Lake here in Beaver County Pa.
They were in the process of draining the entire lake. I don’t know how many acres the lake took in but it is a rather body of water. Many years before it was a lake there was a swimming hole where the original creek ran. One of our friends was operating one of the massive machines which was scraping off the many years of site and various debris one foot at a time.

After some negotiating with him, which ended in my promise to buy him a cold one after work, he said he would scrape the area one foot deep at a time where the swimming and diving part of the lake was. That day all we found was some rather old silver coinage. But we were not discouraged one bit.

The next day we went out to the site wearing rubber boots up to our knees, since it rained the evening before and the freshly scraped earth was a ungodly mess.

We were again detecting in the old swimming area and being the gentleman I am I was in the deeper part where the dozer's tracks had left it about a foot and one half deeper. My wife was on top of the muddy mess searching where the belly pan of the dozer had not made it so deep.

After about a half hour or so I got a loud beep. So I handed her my detector and scooped up a double handful of the soupy muddy mess. She swiped over it and got the beep again. After swishing some of the mud away THERE IT WAS. It was the $10 gold piece. After all our cheering and jubilation she set the coil of the detector down on the high part where she was standing and where we got the first beep.

It sounded off again, I said something else must be in that liquid muddy mess. We parted more of the mud and saw this shiny thing. She picked it up and wiped it off. We were just about rolling in the quagmire of the muddy mess as we realized it was a $20 gold piece. We stayed there for quite a while longer until hunger overcame us and went home to eat supper and marvel at our fantastic finds.
On subsequent trips to the site all we found was a lot of more silver coins and a fistful of junk.
To me that was one detecting trip that we both shall remember for a many years to come.
My only regret is that we were not smart enough to take pictures of the gold coins.
After a couple years we had to sell them both but still have that precious memory of a day at Bradys Run Lake.

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WTG Boobie ! One of these days ,due to first hand experiance, i hope to know just how you felt at that moment !

[FinalLastDays]

What an awesome story! That would have been great to have taken those photographs, however, those memories are there to stay! That story reminds me of quite a many years ago when the water of a large lake around my area was pumped out in order to clean the lake. I remember during that time that my cousin and I were walking through some woods near that lake and I marveled that a lake that size could be drained. I only wish I was into MDing during that time in my life... makes me wonder what treasures are buried there! There was a Civil War camp based at this lake as well.