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Metal Detecting for Gold
Have You Found Coins Or Relics While Looking For Gold?
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<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 541331"><p>G'day</p><p></p><p>I have found quite a few coins while detecting for gold but they are usually few and far between, although on one trip I spied a gold glint a little distance ahead of me in among a mass of quartz rocks, I thought ah ha a sunbaker nugget but to my surprise and in the middle of nowhere it was a $2 coin?, then later found two middle eastern coins from the eighties/nineties, and in another spot also a British half penny and a British 1873 silver three pence, all on the one trip, but on many other trips I have not found any at all.</p><p></p><p>I have found buttons, old unused cartridges, lead musket balls, watch parts, metal filigree odds and ends, a silver topped scent bottle, and some odd bits of jewelry, old tin toy truck, spoons and old hand forged spanners, the funniest thing I ever found though that left me stumped as it was miles from anywhere more than 100 klms from Kalgoorlie was an oyster shell, I thought it maybe was dropped by some aboriginals who might have carried it as a scraping tool, just laying there on the open ground, later I read that oysters were very popular with the old timers, brought up to Kal from the coast, imagine that probably coming up in wet hessian bags on camel back or wagons or something, dodgy to say the least :awful:, go through you like a Bombay fish curry. 8.( </p><p></p><p>I do also hunt old town sites for coins and relics as well with my sovereign gt, and I get just as much out of finding coins and interesting artifacts as I do when I find nuggets, often its easy to get lost in the thoughts of who owned it or lost it or simply what it was used for?</p><p></p><p>cheers</p><p></p><p>stayyerAU</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest, post: 541331"] G'day I have found quite a few coins while detecting for gold but they are usually few and far between, although on one trip I spied a gold glint a little distance ahead of me in among a mass of quartz rocks, I thought ah ha a sunbaker nugget but to my surprise and in the middle of nowhere it was a $2 coin?, then later found two middle eastern coins from the eighties/nineties, and in another spot also a British half penny and a British 1873 silver three pence, all on the one trip, but on many other trips I have not found any at all. I have found buttons, old unused cartridges, lead musket balls, watch parts, metal filigree odds and ends, a silver topped scent bottle, and some odd bits of jewelry, old tin toy truck, spoons and old hand forged spanners, the funniest thing I ever found though that left me stumped as it was miles from anywhere more than 100 klms from Kalgoorlie was an oyster shell, I thought it maybe was dropped by some aboriginals who might have carried it as a scraping tool, just laying there on the open ground, later I read that oysters were very popular with the old timers, brought up to Kal from the coast, imagine that probably coming up in wet hessian bags on camel back or wagons or something, dodgy to say the least :awful:, go through you like a Bombay fish curry. 8.( I do also hunt old town sites for coins and relics as well with my sovereign gt, and I get just as much out of finding coins and interesting artifacts as I do when I find nuggets, often its easy to get lost in the thoughts of who owned it or lost it or simply what it was used for? cheers stayyerAU [/QUOTE]
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