Think I found a little coin spill

[Ken (Australia)]

yesterday afternoon at the toll house site. All the halfpennies and threepences in a radius of about 4 feet with two halfpennies in the same hole. Thanks for looking......Ken.

 

[John (Australia)]

You certainly hit the spot there Ken, I have yet to find any English silver myself, hope to do so some time in 07.
John

 

[beachguy777]

That's some really nice stuff Ken. You must be hunting a pretty old site. Keep up the good work. Marc.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Three of the same coin and three designs; Good one.
Mick Evans.

 

[Ken (Australia)]

Hi fellas, I've been lucky with this spot. So far 29 coins including 13 silver. It must have been inhabited for a long time, the earliest coin is an 1826 halfpenny and yesterday afternoon got a 1943 florin. Most of the finds have been congregated in an area away from the building site. Still have a couple of afternoons left there yet.....Ken.

 

[Golden]

I then start dreaming about the goldfields again.....!

 

[B.RATNY]

Great finds, I love those halfpennies. They all look to be in great condition.
HH Butch NY

 

[beachguy777]

You know, Ken, you gotta wonder what was going on to have all those coins in a certain area. I'm wondering if maybe they were gambling something and got drunk and lost some of them. Seriously, I wonder about that about sites over here too. They used to have some kind of deal where they threw coins as close to a wall as they could and the closest one won, or something like that. Just wondering about all this stuff. Of course what I'm getting at is if we knew where these people gambled in the past it could be a good spot to detect. Marc.

 

[Ken (Australia)]

I think this spot is a little out of the way for gamblers but you never know. I was thinking there might have ben a stable or a set of horse yards nearby.........Ken.

 

[Mirage]

n/t

 

[beachguy777]

Well, you know, Ken, this may be pushing it, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the old cowboys from a long time back didn't gamble around the club house or stables. Heck, even if they didn't they could still lose stuff and either way it's a win win for you. I need to do a little research on some old stables in our town too. Maybe there's some possibilities. While we're on this possibilities thing, I just made a delivery the other day to a place that had a bunch of old pictures from the teens and 20's and, guess what? Some of the streets were dirt back then, so I got to thinking, if they ever repave our older streets where they pull up all the asphalt to re-level it, that could be a gold mine if you could get away with it. Just a thought on possibilities. I'm thinking, just like the leveled off constructions sites, unless they hauled all the old dirt away, there could still be some treasures buried there.

 

[beachguy777]

Ken, those look pretty clean. Did they come out of the ground that way?. I'm also wondering, because I'm from America, can you still spend any of that stuff, not that you'd want to, but I'm wondering if they still use half pennies? Great finds, and really old.

 

[Ken (Australia)]

All of those coins are now out of circulation in Australia. The bottom right halfpenny is Australian, the others are English. In the second photo the top sixpence and threepence are Australian and the bottom two threepences are English. The Australian coins were replaced in 1966 by decimal currency (dollars and cents). The English coins were replaced in 1910 when the Australian copper coins were introduced and the silver coins in 1911. Large numbers of English coins still circulated for another twenty years or so and I can remember in the 1950's when I was a little fella the odd English copper still turning up in change. I clean the coppers with a bit of hot hydrogen peroxide and a toothbrush. The early silvers are usually pretty good straight out of the ground...Regards..Ken.