Brad I've been detecting for just over 50 yrs., and , if I had just 1 wish, it would be to go on just one hunt with you, you are the most informed young man I wish i I could have ever met. In my 83 years I've met a few, but you're a keeper, keep up the great work
150 years or so ago, Vermont was covered with sheep farms. All over the mountains stone walls were built instead of using fences for the sheep herds. Am 70 now, but as a child I remember my great uncle telling me that he remembered when many of the mountains of Vermont were void of trees.
I know this is an old video but still great. Beautiful finds and scenery, wish I could still hike back in the woods. Your camera work makes the videos all the more enjoyable. Congrats on the GOLD coin. Thanks
The crest you found would be post 1603 when James VI of Scotland (heir to the throne of Elizabeth I of England) became James 1 of England uniting the two countries. The English crest was 2 lions and the Scottish crest 2 unicorns. Thus when the two kingdoms united the crest became a lion on one side of the crown and a unicorn on the other. In fact there is an old nursery rhyme entitled, “The Lion And The Unicorn Were Fighting For The Crown.”. Great video and congratulations on a truly amazing find. 😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What a beautiful find. I can't believe what perfect shape that gold coin is in. Is that going to be a family heirloom? Your coin collection must be incredible.
You know you have cool friends and have an interesting life when in conversation you can help them recall when something happened by saying "remember when you were gold panning". Keep living life to the fullest fellas. Great videos.
Logging operations occasionally rip up old graves. Didnt someone recently find 4 brass handles and an upper denture plate?? All scattered around....Thought it was a Stealth Digger guy.
Oh Wow! What a find! Gold! A suitable reward for your persistent, knowledgeable and time intensive hunting in the mountains of Vermont. Well done. I’m so glad for you. Thanks for sharing your ventures with us.
I just found your channel recently and I am suddenly obsessed! The gold piece is amazing! Congratulations! I love your musical accompaniment! I would really like to see some annual or semi-annual specials where you show your larger collections of items, all cleaned up and telling of the actual values of some of your best finds! Easy for me to say, I know but... Anyway, I love your vids and am enjoying them every night all the way from Japan! Keep up the great work! Peace-Out! ✨👑✨💍✨🥄✨🏆✨🥇✨🎖️✨🎺✨Good luck! Go for it! ✨
You guys are the "Real Deal"when it comes to metal decting. You dont just focus on playgrounds and city parks. You actually work hard for your finds!! Hats off to you both keep it up we love your videos..
Wow! You finally found one Brad CONGRATULATIONS! Now you can strive for a jar full of gold coins :-) Camera shots on this hunt were awesome, we can really see just how mountainous it really is there. Beautiful.
That’s a huge bell!! Amazing find for sure. I just found my first one this past year in Maine but not as big. Could you show a brief clean up video of it and it’s design plz? I hope someday I run my coil over one that size and complete like that. Grats!!
Unreal congrats Brad i have been metal detecting for 27 years and i have never found a gold coin.I am glad you shared the video.Congrats again find some more.
Congratulations on the bucket list find. How awesome! As exciting as that would be I also love that you found a large bell in tact. I hope that will be able to revisit this location again in the future. Thanks for another awesome video.
This will definitely be a day to remember, both for you and Mike! His first colonial copper and your first gold! Woo hoo! Such a nice walk through some gorgeous countryside. Thanks so much!
Great find with the Charles III 1/2 Escudo. Back in the day 16 Silver Reales = 1 Escudo. So, that was the equivalent to 8 Reales. I have the 1/2, 1 and 2 Charles III shields from Madrid. I'd love to finish the collection with a 4 and 8 escudos!
My favorite time to be in the woods but by Halloween I am on the deer hunter side of things. I live in the central Illinois flat prairie. I envy you having all the hills and valleys.
Brad. I had to stop by to say a HUGE congrats on the coin that so many treasure hunters spend their life looking for! Also, I didn't read down in the comments, but on that pewter utensil handle it looks like an Egyptian ankh. Once again, HUGE congrats!
You Did it!!! Epic Gold coin find! Congrats that is amazing and I love the crest thing you found with the unicorn & the lion! Awesome! Thanks for sharing! We would love to still have you on the Podcast whenever you are ready. Happy Hunting! ~ Gypsy
How amazing. I cant imagine metal detecting such a beautiful and bewitching place on halloween. The scenery reminds me of sleepy hollow type of stuff. Congrats on that gold coin good sir. I would soil myself if i found anything pre-1900s so i cant imagine the feeling of digging spanish silver. I also really wish i coulda heard that big bell ring for the first time in 250 years, assuming it still had the ball in it. Great video as always Brad.
I like that 1901 (O) Barber dime that was found. Looks to be in pretty good condition, like about a VF, and I would say definitely worth at least $30-40 dollars, although not nearly as much as the 1786 Spanish Escudo which has an estimated value of around $250.00. Not too much was said about it at the time.
We're hunkered down on a hilltop in Cincinnati, avoiding covid18, maintaining our sanity by watching your adventurous virtual tours. Wonder what you'll find next!
Hi Brad, congratulations on your beautiful gold coin, and congratulations also on that beautiful complete crotal bell. So awesome you found both things you have been wanting to find and on the same day. What's better than that is you have it on video too as a lovely memory. xx
How was that ever a question?! Of course it’s gold.. I immediately noticed that.. there’s ONE THING that you’re gonna find like that ... and it’s GOOOOOOLD BROTHER!!
Also, I was thinking, the area you found the gold coin that was dropped...I'm betting there's a trail of coins out there. If you spread out from that location you found the gold coin in the center, in a spiral pattern, you might find more. Maybe you'll be able to plot the direction of travel through the area by whoever dropped it.
I have been watching for quite some time and like what you do. I am 73 and have been metal detecting for about 40 years off and on. I started with a Garrett Groundhog Metal detector. You have found more interesting artifacts then I ever have, I just am getting active again metal detecting and would love to find a shoe buckle from colonial days. Keep doing what you do it's great
love your searches. don't you ever look for more than one when you find something? I would look near anything you find for second thing, coz where there is one there may be more!
I would like to know where the people of that time period found the labor to build all of those stone walls. Sure they used horses and oxen , but still had to load and unload then stack all those stones. Makes my back hurt just thinking about.
Holy flipping Toledo Batman! A gold coin is at the very top of every detectorist's Bucket List. A SPANISH gold coin is at the top of every detectorist's "Like that will ever happen" dream find list. Extra megga congrats to you man. I got chills just watching you clean it off. Way to go!
Nice finds. My favorite were the owl pellet, huge complete crotal bell, and a "bleeping" 1786 Madrid 1/2 Escudo Charles III Gold Spanish Colonial coin. Another great adventure. Thanks Brad and Mike!
@@timemachinevintage hahaha!! C'mon mind over matter, think warm!! Bananas could help.. (ha) There's gotta be a way.. A longer video with nothing except coin shooting for more "Gold"! Just saying, could be great idea thx)) Nice long video
I know it’s your coin and you can do anything you want !!! But man!!! Rubbing on that soft gold !! I believe you just can’t help yourself!!! Congratulations. That is sweet. But I believe you have a rubbing addiction. LOL
Thanks for the concern Dan, but I'm fully aware of how to handle a coin out of the ground. I was constantly spraying with water, cleaning off my fingers on my pants and wiping very gently. When looking through a magnifier there are no scratches to speak of.
Good for you. You have worked hard and consistently and it has finally paid off. May this year bring you many more such coins and other treasures. The mule-driver from Missouri.
Brad I've been detecting for just over 50 yrs., and , if I had just 1 wish, it would be to go on just one hunt with you, you are the most informed young man I wish i I could have ever met. In my 83 years I've met a few, but you're a keeper, keep up the great work
you found more gold than they have found on Oak Island in 7 years of searching
damnnn 😙
Lol
so true lol! i stopped watching that show last year. theres nothing there.
Good point!
Brutal but hilariously true
150 years or so ago, Vermont was covered with sheep farms. All over the mountains stone walls were built instead of using fences for the sheep herds. Am 70 now, but as a child I remember my great uncle telling me that he remembered when many of the mountains of Vermont were void of trees.
I know this is an old video but still great. Beautiful finds and scenery, wish I could still hike back in the woods. Your camera work makes the videos all the more enjoyable.
Congrats on the GOLD coin. Thanks
Are you from New England? Let's go metal detecting! Haha
The crest you found would be post 1603 when James VI of Scotland (heir to the throne of Elizabeth I of England) became James 1 of England uniting the two countries. The English crest was 2 lions and the Scottish crest 2 unicorns.
Thus when the two kingdoms united the crest became a lion on one side of the crown and a unicorn on the other. In fact there is an old nursery rhyme entitled, “The Lion And The Unicorn Were Fighting For The Crown.”. Great video and congratulations on a truly amazing find. 😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great information! Thanks for that!
Thanks so much, Ian!
Green Mountain Metal Detecting You’re very welcome. 🙂👍🏻
Great info ! Well done!
K. W. Churchill Thank you.
Sweet vid Brad. Can’t wait for the next one. We are all sooooooooo lucky to have you!!! Cheers!
Awe shucks, thanks Brad!
What a beautiful find. I can't believe what perfect shape that gold coin is in. Is that going to be a family heirloom? Your coin collection must be incredible.
The finds are fantastic, but the nature shots bring me to tears. Blessings to you and yours.
sweeeeet , i agree of the natural scenery
Congratz on the Gold... I found a 1642 Cob Eight Reales in the Bahamas a few years back while diving!
The Bahamas would be ripe hunting grounds now that Hurricane Dorian has really churned up the waters there!
go back, .. continue 😉
A gold coin and a day with friends, can’t get much better than that!!!
You know you have cool friends and have an interesting life when in conversation you can help them recall when something happened by saying "remember when you were gold panning". Keep living life to the fullest fellas. Great videos.
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Words cannot describe how happy I am for you!!! Congratulations once again. Surely a day you will never forget!
Thanks so much Chris!!
Congratulations! I Found my first gold last week! Not a coin, gold teeth. Lol
That's a odd find hope there wasn't a skeleton attached LoL
Who's mouth was it in or whos pillow was it under
@@canaan5337 I guess you'll have to watch my Video to see!
Logging operations occasionally rip up old graves. Didnt someone recently find 4 brass handles and an upper denture plate?? All scattered around....Thought it was a Stealth Digger guy.
Dads In Dirt Again - do you have a link? Clicking on your name comes up with an error both times I tried. I'll watch! Chuck in NE Kansas
Oh Wow! What a find! Gold! A suitable reward for your persistent, knowledgeable and time intensive hunting in the mountains of Vermont. Well done. I’m so glad for you. Thanks for sharing your ventures with us.
Thanks so much for the kind words!
It would be great if you could follow up the videos of the items after cleaned up.
Maryj
or do it at the end of the video. a coin seller told me sometimes coins are worth more not cleaned up once " damaged" out of the mint condition.
@@neeneec5394 Kind of does on his website www.gmmd.us/past-finds.html
Great video!!!!
I can feel your excitement through the vid. That gold coin was a once in a lifetime find.
GO BRAD!! ❤
Only two words: Perfect day! Thanks for sharing. Have a nice weekend!
I have to agree, thanks for watching!!
I just found your channel recently and I am suddenly obsessed! The gold piece is amazing! Congratulations! I love your musical accompaniment! I would really like to see some annual or semi-annual specials where you show your larger collections of items, all cleaned up and telling of the actual values of some of your best finds! Easy for me to say, I know but... Anyway, I love your vids and am enjoying them every night all the way from Japan! Keep up the great work! Peace-Out! ✨👑✨💍✨🥄✨🏆✨🥇✨🎖️✨🎺✨Good luck! Go for it! ✨
Just to touch history from 3 centuries ago must be an amazing feeling.
right? sweeeet 😙
You guys are the "Real Deal"when it comes to metal decting. You dont just focus on playgrounds and city parks. You actually work hard for your finds!! Hats off to you both keep it up we love your videos..
Thanks so much, Tim!
Wow! You finally found one Brad CONGRATULATIONS! Now you can strive for a jar full of gold coins :-)
Camera shots on this hunt were awesome, we can really see just how mountainous it really is there. Beautiful.
Thanks Max, glad to hear you enjoyed it!!
Green Mountain Metal Detecting did you get keep it
I love watching your videos and reading the comments. I love learning about history.
That square flap that you found could be the pan on a animal spring-trap.
I think you're correct.
My thoughts also. Never seen a brass pan, but didn't trap in the 1700's either!
Foothold trap pan was my first thought too
Agreed
Thanks for the suggestion!
Congratulations Brad! It's a stunner
Thanks guys!
Love this channel man. My kids went nuts when you found that gold coin hahah
Haha so glad to hear that Dan!
Good folks on this channel ! Definitely got my sub!
you work you get paid !!! sweet finds today for both THANKS FOR TAKING US ALONG G M M D !!
Thanks for coming along Phil!
Always the best scenery and best finds! Congratulations on the gold coin!
good eye ... i agree on the natural scenery
Unteal... Brad!! You found it....years and years...of all you do...wow....love you...
Love from Ocean park
.maine..
That’s a huge bell!! Amazing find for sure. I just found my first one this past year in Maine but not as big. Could you show a brief clean up video of it and it’s design plz? I hope someday I run my coil over one that size and complete like that. Grats!!
Every time this come up I have to watch it again so so nice!!! And again love the tones!!!
Thanks Bruce!!
Congrats Brad on your gold coin, that is Carlos the 3rd on the front for sure. Awesome.
Thanks so much Ronnie!
Unreal congrats Brad i have been metal detecting for 27 years and i have never found a gold coin.I am glad you shared the video.Congrats again find some more.
Thanks so much Tom, I hope 2019 will be your year!
Worth the wait! Can’t wait for you to go back!
Congratulations on the bucket list find. How awesome! As exciting as that would be I also love that you found a large bell in tact. I hope that will be able to revisit this location again in the future. Thanks for another awesome video.
Awesome finds and it is good see you back on here ! It has been a long wait ! Lol
Haha thanks Steve, every other Friday I'm posting a new video!
This will definitely be a day to remember, both for you and Mike! His first colonial copper and your first gold! Woo hoo! Such a nice walk through some gorgeous countryside. Thanks so much!
Great find with the Charles III 1/2 Escudo. Back in the day 16 Silver Reales = 1 Escudo. So, that was the equivalent to 8 Reales. I have the 1/2, 1 and 2 Charles III shields from Madrid. I'd love to finish the collection with a 4 and 8 escudos!
An amazing find in Vermont of all places, thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
That my friend is what keeps folks detecting.
here here on that Dan!!
You can say that again, I've been climbing the walls waiting for this foot of snow to melt!!
Unbelievable. So many congrats to you a thousand times over. Simply amazing.
Thanks so much!!
My favorite time to be in the woods but by Halloween I am on the deer hunter side of things. I live in the central Illinois flat prairie. I envy you having all the hills and valleys.
All smiles here for you find!! Congratulations !!
And once again you've topped yourself! Cool historic finds.
Thanks friend!!
Congrats!!! Very nice finds.........What a way to end a wonderful day.
Brad. I had to stop by to say a HUGE congrats on the coin that so many treasure hunters spend their life looking for! Also, I didn't read down in the comments, but on that pewter utensil handle it looks like an Egyptian ankh. Once again, HUGE congrats!
Thanks so much JD, for the kind words and the ID!
You Did it!!! Epic Gold coin find! Congrats that is amazing and I love the crest thing you found with the unicorn & the lion! Awesome! Thanks for sharing! We would love to still have you on the Podcast whenever you are ready. Happy Hunting! ~ Gypsy
Thanks Gypsy!
Awesome!!! Congrats!!! Some of the BEST vids on RUclips!!!!
Thanks so much Brian!!
I definitely agree! Best detecting channel anywhere!
I think i would still be dancing around over that gold coin..Pretty cool.
How amazing. I cant imagine metal detecting such a beautiful and bewitching place on halloween. The scenery reminds me of sleepy hollow type of stuff. Congrats on that gold coin good sir. I would soil myself if i found anything pre-1900s so i cant imagine the feeling of digging spanish silver. I also really wish i coulda heard that big bell ring for the first time in 250 years, assuming it still had the ball in it. Great video as always Brad.
Thanks Clive, it was a beautiful day, and the bell still rings!
Congratulations Brad. Not just any gold coin, but spanish at that. WOW !!!!!!
I like that 1901 (O) Barber dime that was found. Looks to be in pretty good condition, like about a VF, and I would say definitely worth at least $30-40 dollars, although not nearly as much as the 1786 Spanish Escudo which has an estimated value of around $250.00. Not too much was said about it at the time.
We're hunkered down on a hilltop in Cincinnati, avoiding covid18, maintaining our sanity by watching your adventurous virtual tours. Wonder what you'll find next!
Absolutely Amazing Hunt, Congratulations on all the finds, Gold Coin, HOLY COW, SWEET 😃
Hi Brad, congratulations on your beautiful gold coin, and congratulations also on that beautiful complete crotal bell. So awesome you found both things you have been wanting to find and on the same day. What's better than that is you have it on video too as a lovely memory. xx
Well said Sue, thanks for watching and the kind words!!
How was that ever a question?! Of course it’s gold.. I immediately noticed that.. there’s ONE THING that you’re gonna find like that ... and it’s GOOOOOOLD BROTHER!!
Couldn't happen to a more chill dude. Congrats man.
Thanks friend!
Dang dude congrats! Amazing gold coin way to go Brad!
Congratulations Brad what an awesome day!
Also, I was thinking, the area you found the gold coin that was dropped...I'm betting there's a trail of coins out there. If you spread out from that location you found the gold coin in the center, in a spiral pattern, you might find more. Maybe you'll be able to plot the direction of travel through the area by whoever dropped it.
brilliant 🙂
I have been watching for quite some time and like what you do. I am 73 and have been metal detecting for about 40 years off and on. I started with a Garrett Groundhog Metal detector. You have found more interesting artifacts then I ever have, I just am getting active again metal detecting and would love to find a shoe buckle from colonial days. Keep doing what you do it's great
Thanks so much Ronald, good luck out there!
The square thing with the hinge looke like maybe a pressure switch for a leg trap.
Thanks for the suggestion Earl!
You are correct my friend
Congratulations Brad, the gold coin was absolutely beautiful!!!
Thanks so much Jerry!!
love your searches. don't you ever look for more than one when you find something? I would look near anything you find for second thing, coz where there is one there may be more!
@SmokyMountainHiker yeah. I watched too many Time Team videos, they edit out the betweens, forgive me.
GOOD Finds! Glad your alert came up to see this ! Thanks !
Congrats Brad on the GOLD coin!
Very very nice gold coin. Love your videos and have gone back and watched most from the past. Keep it up yall are fun and love the flower tutorials
Glad to here you're enjoying them, Elizabeth! Thanks for watching!
I would like to know where the people of that time period found the labor to build all of those stone walls. Sure they used horses and oxen , but still had to load and unload then stack all those stones. Makes my back hurt just thinking about.
Nobody works like new England
damnnn 😙
Holy flipping Toledo Batman! A gold coin is at the very top of every detectorist's Bucket List. A SPANISH gold coin is at the top of every detectorist's "Like that will ever happen" dream find list. Extra megga congrats to you man. I got chills just watching you clean it off. Way to go!
I’ve been estatic for this video!
Me too!!
It's the find of a lifetime...and through the miracle of video, u get to find it over and over and over 😁
Haha and I certainly have, I think half the views are me =)
Everything you find is a ghost ;) Congrats on the Gold!
I was thinking that, too. The ghosts of the guys who dropped them.
Nice finds. My favorite were the owl pellet, huge complete crotal bell, and a "bleeping" 1786 Madrid 1/2 Escudo Charles III Gold Spanish Colonial coin. Another great adventure. Thanks Brad and Mike!
P.S. makea vid so we can hear that bell ring. Thanks.
It's mandatory in the UK to do a gold dance 😁
Haha I was in shock too much to remember
You earned every ounce of that coin and more , l believe ! Thank you for taking us along . Take care now .
Congratulations! We call that iron tool a Mattock
STOP RUBBING IT!! lol, great find👌
I was just as excited ad you were when you found the gold coin! Congratulations! Love that huge crotal bell!
Holy snikeys!! You lucky dog!
Great video..
Question; why don't you ever stay and camp out overnight?
Jeff Harras it’s pretty cold here in Vermont from October on.
I wondered that sometimes too!
@@timemachinevintage hahaha!! C'mon mind over matter, think warm!! Bananas could help.. (ha)
There's gotta be a way..
A longer video with nothing except coin shooting for more "Gold"!
Just saying, could be great idea thx))
Nice long video
That's a good question I'd say too
Thanks Jeff! It's been discussed but haven't convinced a landowner to allow it yet, perhaps in 2019!
What a great find,that gold was beautiful!
If I had a metal detecting channel, it would be called “I dig everything”
I dig it.
Just dig it.
@@stu3775 dugga
@@MrDuffy81 Been there, dug that.
@@stu3775 Jim Duggan. OH YEAH!
Such exciting finds all of them. The views are great!
Damn.... Gold!... 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Awesome video amazing activity and unbelievable that gold coin is just jaw dropping!! Congrats! Sharing on my Facebook group page!!
Thanks so much!!
I know it’s your coin and you can do anything you want !!! But man!!! Rubbing on that soft gold !! I believe you just can’t help yourself!!!
Congratulations. That is sweet. But I believe you have a rubbing addiction. LOL
Thanks for the concern Dan, but I'm fully aware of how to handle a coin out of the ground. I was constantly spraying with water, cleaning off my fingers on my pants and wiping very gently. When looking through a magnifier there are no scratches to speak of.
Good point Dan.
Gold Coin What a. 1700' s Find !
Terrific finds for both of You , The grubbing how was amazing.
2 and 3 Century historical Relics Congratulations
"I FOUND IT!!" While looking at the other dude lol. Just makin sure he knew who found it.
Congratulations Brad on the ultimate bucket Lister! Congratulations Mike on the barber! Fantastic episode!
Never yell out “GOLD!”.
Exciting find! great scenery too
YES YES YES Finaly
wow 22 views only 6 likes whats that come on people dont forget thumbs up
Congrats Brad, I'm happy for you that is one beautiful piece of History saved, Not to mention that perfect crotal Bell&Kg,s GL and HH--Brian
Yes it's a owl pellet we did one in school when I was a kid
Good for you. You have worked hard and consistently and it has finally paid off. May this year bring you many more such coins and other treasures. The mule-driver from Missouri.
Thanks so much Tom!
Oh dude, I dropped that gold coin last week… Just be a pal and put it in the mail for me 💥
Great find!!!! You are going to need a new bucket list now!!!!
NO NO way you didn't just do that
little Spanish GOL very nice Sir Well done
Nice finds, Thanks for sharing
"Grubbing Ho" was an insult, when I was growing up.
Thrilled for you. Congrats. What a great day.
You would not want to rub you dirty fingers across your coins. You take value off with every swipe
Skip Rocker nigga what? No u don’t
Wow! What an amazing find of a lifetime. I bet you still get giddy thinking about that one. Congrats.
Congratulations on your gold coin find! Does this make you officially a Gold digger? lol