Troy's Shadow has scored again here in North Texas. While hunting late this afternoon, I found a beautiful 1880 Ten Dollar Gold Piece. What an incredible thrill it was, my hands were shaking so much that I could hardly hold the coin. It was found at a construction site where a parking lot was being removed in the middle of a small town. This kind of site has always been good to me, but not that good!! They had just finished scrapping off more of the dirt so I guess we could have walked right over it previously as the site was very junky.

As for settings, disc was set at 3.5 to 4 and sens was set about 5.5. It was a very smooth signal about 3 to 4 inches deep.

At first glimpse of the coin it was half buried in a clod of dirt and I thought it looked like one of those shiny tokens you get at Chuck E. Cheese's and I thought dangit!! I wish that was a coin. Once I broke open the clod, my hands starting shaking, I threw down my Shadow and ran to my hunting partner, David Duke, from the Lone Star Treasure Club. Things really started moving in slow motion from then on and I tried hunting again but just couldn't concentrate. What an incredibly fantastic thrill it was!! And I managed to get it out of that hard Texas gumbo soil without a scratch on it!!

Good luck finding yours. I have found mine.