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English coin find on Aussie Beach

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Fortunehunter

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Made this some what surprising discovery while detecting on one of our Australian beaches yesterday. Thought for a while I had found some very old and rare coin, it was very encrusted I could just make out "One Penny" but it was obviously a very different "One Penny" to the old Australian ones I know of. Anyway, cleaned it up a little today and could just make out 1985 as the date, bummer.:thumbdown: A little searching on the Internet soon told me that it is an English One Penny. Oh well, but there must be an interesting story as to how it got to my little beach.



But yesterday was certainly not disappointing, found my first gold ring which was very satisfying. It's a large mans wedding band, weighs in at 1/3 ounce (8 grams), I'm guessing it's about 18 carat but not sure as I can't see any markings on it. Can anyone tell me if there is a way of working out what carat a ring may be?
 
Good finds at the beach.
Markings should be in the inner part of the ring unless the ring got re sized and the markings were wiped off.
I think there's a acid test to find out if its gold and the caret rating.
 
Hi Lazyaussie,

The coin came from an area I have searched several times, right on low tide some small rocks are exposed and I have pulled out a lot of old coins out from amongst them. As the tide started to come in and cover the rocks I moved on down the beach searching the sand just above the low tide mark. The ring was buried about 15 cm deep in the wet sand.

I had another closer look at the ring and there were some markings inside, so small I could barely make them out, our perhaps my eye sight isn't as good as it used to be. Put the macro lens back on the camera and then I could see that the ring is actually only 9 carat. But at least its GOLD. :bouncy:
 
good to hear its solid gold & not gold plate & i love hunting around rocks at the beach to.
 
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