Had a very strange find several weekends ago. I was in an 1800s goldfield on a trip to Victoria (near Tarnagulla Victoria). I found a cache of 1cent and 2 cent pieces in an area measuring about 1 metre by 1 metre. They were close to the surface and just to the edge of a mullock heap. They had been there a while and were not the usual scattered rubbish that is designed to annoy detecting. Nothing special but just goes to show.
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Decimal Currency Cache in an 1800s goldfield
- Thread starter magpies
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Mick in Dubbo
New member
Maybe they were put ther to thow you off hunting there. Perhaps they had a good signal and didn't have time to dig it, but it doesn't make much cents.
Mick Evans.
Mick Evans.
TURNMASTER
Active member
THE ONLY THING I DON'T DIG IS IRON, AND EVEN THEN I'M STILL DIGGING. BUT HEY I'M STILL NEW AT THIS.
JEFF
JEFF
I've been to places that were littered with "near surface" coins that, for whatever reason, no one had bothered to dig. My theory is that folks get complacent while metal detecting. We think everything "worthwhile" is deep and scattered. Whether we call them coin spills or caches, there are lots of targets out there that have avoided recovery because they don't fit our mental image of being where we think they shoud be. Aren't you glad you dug that first one? It not only lead to quite a recovery, but has also given the rest of us a perfect example why we should dig even those that are near the surface and close together. Congrats on the finds. And thanks for sharing your hunt! HH Randy
