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That is a great find, coin and gold at the same time!

Great detecting on your part for going after it.

Good luck on your next hunt.

 

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I've had solid IDs on lots of aluminum but that was a great call. Cool stuff!

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Double bonus!  What dTID's do these two read when separated?  (I assume the 6d is silver; maybe that's a bad assumption....)

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3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

What dTID's do these two read when separated? 

The coin was 25/26 and the little butterfly was 13.. normally i tend to avoid 13s as it's nearly always a aluminium pull tap..  

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7 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Double bonus!  What dTID's do these two read when separated?  (I assume the 6d is silver; maybe that's a bad assumption....)

Hi, yes Victoria 1900 six pence will be .925 silver.

The British silver coins dropped to .500 in 1920 then no silver in 1947 - both dates significant as a couple years after the end of the respective World Wars and the same reason - to help pay the war debt.

 

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1 hour ago, Stu said:

The British silver coins dropped to .500 in 1920 then no silver in 1947

We're lucky that Australian silver coins minted between 1910 and 1945 contain 92.5% pure silver (sterling silver), later dates until decimal coinage was introduced in 1966 contain 50% silver.. There are some parallels to British silver coins after WWII with Australian silver coins dropping to 50% just as yours did in 1920.. Who says history doesn't repeat itself? Most of my pre-decimal coins were found at a spot I've called the 'Silver Mine'.. It's on the edge of where a grassy embankment meets the beach.. every time there is a heavy downpour or a really high tide, a huge amount of water runs down from inland creeks as well as up from the sea, continually exposing silver coins.. 

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Funny how they never upped the content again,,,,guess planning for other wars got that idea dropped .......

(A toll road was built here in Maine when I was a kid , I remember the toll was supposed to go away when the road was paid off ,,,60 years later the tolls are still going up ! LOL )

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On 3/28/2021 at 11:22 AM, Erik Oostra said:

We're lucky that Australian silver coins minted between 1910 and 1945 contain 92.5% pure silver (sterling silver), later dates until decimal coinage was introduced in 1966 contain 50% silver.. There are some parallels to British silver coins after WWII with Australian silver coins dropping to 50% just as yours did in 1920.. Who says history doesn't repeat itself? Most of my pre-decimal coins were found at a spot I've called the 'Silver Mine'.. It's on the edge of where a grassy embankment meets the beach.. every time there is a heavy downpour or a really high tide, a huge amount of water runs down from inland creeks as well as up from the sea, continually exposing silver coins.. 

In 1966 the round fifty cent was introduced at 80% silver. The price of silver stopped it in the end. 

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