Pyrites Pete
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Thought I should share this with you . My best find last summer on the beach Downunder
Pyrites Pete
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My Best find last Summer
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Md Epidemic
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WOW! awesome find
MNCoinhunter
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I don't know how you could top that. That would be my best find ever. Nice find...congrats !!You're talking about $750 minimum for that particular specimen...very nice haul.
oakhunter27
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one cool necklace
deepseeker442
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nice 
Mick in Dubbo
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Are you still working in a certain shop? I bought one of their products yesterday. Pretty pleased with it too!
(different outlet though.)
I hope the wet whether isn't impeding your hunts. Been a bit damp in these parts in the last couple of days.
Mick Evans.
(different outlet though.)I hope the wet whether isn't impeding your hunts. Been a bit damp in these parts in the last couple of days.
Mick Evans.
G'day Mick you old pirate !
Still plundering up there ?
No Mick I departed from the detector shop October last year mate...
I've only got two of my Minelabs left, X-Terra70 with 4 coils, and my E-Trac with 4 coils and a Sunray X1 pinpointer.
I now am enjoying my new Fisher F75 Ltd. edition, I haven't posted much at all lately but I did detect up $90 plus recently while on a holiday up in the Riverina NSW.
We stayed with our daughter and grand kids for a fortnight, it's ok for sure to detect our goldies, but I LOVE detecting old silver coins best of all !
Best I could muster on the last trip was a 1913 British silver threepence.
This 1872 Gothic English florin is my best coin from the Riverina to date, the date is written in Roman numerals.
Happy hunting Mick...
Snowy
No Mick I departed from the detector shop October last year mate...
I've only got two of my Minelabs left, X-Terra70 with 4 coils, and my E-Trac with 4 coils and a Sunray X1 pinpointer.
I now am enjoying my new Fisher F75 Ltd. edition, I haven't posted much at all lately but I did detect up $90 plus recently while on a holiday up in the Riverina NSW.
We stayed with our daughter and grand kids for a fortnight, it's ok for sure to detect our goldies, but I LOVE detecting old silver coins best of all !
Best I could muster on the last trip was a 1913 British silver threepence.
This 1872 Gothic English florin is my best coin from the Riverina to date, the date is written in Roman numerals.
Happy hunting Mick...
Snowy
Uncle Willy
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Very nice.
Bill
Bill
Mick in Dubbo
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That florin is a pretty cool find!Till recently, I'd never been much interested in hunting pre-decimals. Mostly thought of them as the post 1900 Aussie mint variety. Although I have liked some of them, just never enough to go out of my way to find them. Recently, I went to a mates place who has detected quite a lot of very old and beautiful coins, rather like what you have in the photo. Now they are coins worth looking for.
I guess the big wide open spaces must have been beckoning you out o the shop. I thought I was half a chance to drop in there close to years end. (Planning a trip to Tassie) I was going to drive originally and put the family on the plane, but we'll all fly down now so won't pass through Melbourne, so am unable to drop in and check it out. My old XS Explorer is no longer reliable, so replaced it with an SE Yesterday. Bought an Omega a couple of months back, so with these and my Garrett's I think I've bought all the detectors that I want now, just going to play with them all now.
I haven't been able to get out a great deal this year, but am still getting a few hunts in. I'll try and improve on that.
Catch ya soon.
Mick Evans.
Till recently, I'd never been much interested in hunting pre-decimals. Mostly thought of them as the post 1900 Aussie mint variety. Although I have liked some of them, just never enough to go out of my way to find them. Recently, I went to a mates place who has detected quite a lot of very old and beautiful coins, rather like what you have in the photo. Now they are coins worth looking for.I guess the big wide open spaces must have been beckoning you out o the shop. I thought I was half a chance to drop in there close to years end. (Planning a trip to Tassie) I was going to drive originally and put the family on the plane, but we'll all fly down now so won't pass through Melbourne, so am unable to drop in and check it out. My old XS Explorer is no longer reliable, so replaced it with an SE Yesterday. Bought an Omega a couple of months back, so with these and my Garrett's I think I've bought all the detectors that I want now, just going to play with them all now.
I haven't been able to get out a great deal this year, but am still getting a few hunts in. I'll try and improve on that.
Catch ya soon.
Mick Evans.
Tassie trip eh Mick...
[size=large]Watch out for the___[/size]
[size=large]Now Tasmania ought to be a great place for early coins...
I always remember two old customers of mine who I sold detectors to, one guy told me that his family always told the story of a ship wreck near there home in North West Tasmania.
He was after a detector to check out the area. He rang me a few weeks later to ask me what a dump from a holey dollar looked like!
I explained that I hadn't seen one before, but I thought that they would probably be about the size of an Aussie $2 coin.
This guy told me that he had found some old black thick coins on the beach ! He never rang me again !!!
The other feller said he had access to a very old ( historic ) and disused horse race track on a private grazing property, he said he has the exclusive right to detect there,
up to the time of this phone call he had already detected quite a few gold sovereigns !!!
He rang me to update his detector...[/size]
Hope you get lucky down there Mick !
[size=large]Watch out for the___[/size]
[size=large]Now Tasmania ought to be a great place for early coins...
I always remember two old customers of mine who I sold detectors to, one guy told me that his family always told the story of a ship wreck near there home in North West Tasmania.
He was after a detector to check out the area. He rang me a few weeks later to ask me what a dump from a holey dollar looked like!
I explained that I hadn't seen one before, but I thought that they would probably be about the size of an Aussie $2 coin.
This guy told me that he had found some old black thick coins on the beach ! He never rang me again !!!
The other feller said he had access to a very old ( historic ) and disused horse race track on a private grazing property, he said he has the exclusive right to detect there,
up to the time of this phone call he had already detected quite a few gold sovereigns !!!
He rang me to update his detector...[/size]
Hope you get lucky down there Mick !
Mick in Dubbo
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they wouldn't have been a holey dollar or dump. They were made from a Spanish 8 reale coin which is silver. I got to see both these coins in the flesh a couple of weeks back. We had a display brought through Dubbo by the State Library, celebrating 200 years since the start of Governor Macquaries Governorship. These coins were created by order of Gov Macquarie. Circulated from 1813 to 1822 when they were recalled from circulation. The only places of white settlement at that time were parts of Sydney, Bathurst, Tasmania and Norfolk Island; so if you want to find them, you need to hunt in those places.
There is not many of them left. The curator said that if you have one in good condition, then there are worth around $100 000!
The dump is about the size of a sixpence. It has the British crown on one side with the date of 1813 under it ( I don't know which country stamped that on, but assume that it was done here which means that they should all have the same date. On the back, it looks more like a token, with only the words, fifteen pence on it and no other decoration.
The holy Dollar, is a large coin with at best guess, approximately an inch and three quarters in size. The hole that the dump is punched out of, is slightly off centre and has in very small print around the hole, five shillings. The coins most likely have variations in dates and as they arrived in the colony in November 1812, they won't be newer than that. ( I just looked in the Rennkins coin book and noticed that the date of 1813 is stamped on the edge of the inner hole on the same side as the words five shillings.(Photo on page 9.)
That fellow that found a number of Gold sovereigns is one fortunate chap. Most of us will never recover one, but a bit of research and good luck can change that.
I'll be packing a detector with me when I go there, but I don't know how much of a chance I'll get to use it.I'll try and get at least one hunt in.
Mick Evans.
There is not many of them left. The curator said that if you have one in good condition, then there are worth around $100 000!
The dump is about the size of a sixpence. It has the British crown on one side with the date of 1813 under it ( I don't know which country stamped that on, but assume that it was done here which means that they should all have the same date. On the back, it looks more like a token, with only the words, fifteen pence on it and no other decoration.
The holy Dollar, is a large coin with at best guess, approximately an inch and three quarters in size. The hole that the dump is punched out of, is slightly off centre and has in very small print around the hole, five shillings. The coins most likely have variations in dates and as they arrived in the colony in November 1812, they won't be newer than that. ( I just looked in the Rennkins coin book and noticed that the date of 1813 is stamped on the edge of the inner hole on the same side as the words five shillings.(Photo on page 9.)
That fellow that found a number of Gold sovereigns is one fortunate chap. Most of us will never recover one, but a bit of research and good luck can change that.
I'll be packing a detector with me when I go there, but I don't know how much of a chance I'll get to use it.I'll try and get at least one hunt in.
Mick Evans.
[size=large]Mick I guess our gold sovereigns and holey dollars and maybe an Adelaide pound would be the premier finds down here in Aussie land...
Here's some pictures of the holey dollar, and dump...
Hey; I'll tell you something about Pyrites Pete...
Ol' Pyrites found an old Roman coin down here on a Port Phillip bay beach, absolutely true !!!
It was found when he detected up a lump of coral at the beach, he took this detected "rock" home and dropped it into a tin or similar in his garage, and left it.
A good while later he came across this rock again, and decided to give it a gentle tap, and out popped a real ancient Roman coin !
I was told it was possible that this coral lump with the encrusted old coin could possibly have been dislodged from the wooden hull of an old sailing ship way way back.
Maybe the ships hull was shoved into an old rock sea wall in Britain, or Europe; and plucked the lump of coral from the structure...
But I've seen the coin, and it was truly found down here in the bay.[/size]
Here's some pictures of the holey dollar, and dump...
Hey; I'll tell you something about Pyrites Pete...
Ol' Pyrites found an old Roman coin down here on a Port Phillip bay beach, absolutely true !!!
It was found when he detected up a lump of coral at the beach, he took this detected "rock" home and dropped it into a tin or similar in his garage, and left it.
A good while later he came across this rock again, and decided to give it a gentle tap, and out popped a real ancient Roman coin !
I was told it was possible that this coral lump with the encrusted old coin could possibly have been dislodged from the wooden hull of an old sailing ship way way back.
Maybe the ships hull was shoved into an old rock sea wall in Britain, or Europe; and plucked the lump of coral from the structure...
But I've seen the coin, and it was truly found down here in the bay.[/size]
Mick in Dubbo
New member
What are the odds of that! Tha'ts a nigh on impossible find in these parts. Not something you'd believe unless you saw it yourself. I imagine that there is a remote chance of finding coins as old as 500 years old when you consider the shipping trade routes that used to pass through Indoneasia back then. That may explain why Whilliam Dampier bumped into WA back in the 1600's.
Thanks for posting photos both sides of the holy dollar. I've obviously see both sides of the coin at different times (in person, then the coin book) and crossed wires on some of the info. I wonder if the dump got hit by a mower?
That coin would have to rate as the oldest coin find here Ever!.
Thanks for posting about it.
Mick Evans.
Thanks for posting photos both sides of the holy dollar. I've obviously see both sides of the coin at different times (in person, then the coin book) and crossed wires on some of the info. I wonder if the dump got hit by a mower?
That coin would have to rate as the oldest coin find here Ever!.
Thanks for posting about it.
Mick Evans.
Mick in Dubbo
New member
That'd be great Snowy; if he's willing.
Mick Evans.
Mick Evans.