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The Spanish Dollar were used a lot in that era. The one I want is the 1751 minted in Mexico that the Australian NSW converted to the 1813 Holey Dollar and Dump. I would settle for any holey dollar in any condition. 🤑 What is a holey dollar worth? SOLD IN 1997 FOR $37,000 & NOW VALUED AT $500,000. Created from a Spanish Silver Dollar that was struck at the Mexico Mint in 1757, the coin is unique. It is the only Holey Dollar created from a dollar struck during the reign of Ferdinand VI. No other privately held examples exist. A good link for more info .......... --LINK--

It looks like 3 penny weight next to the speck 😉

F350Platinum As usual a lot of good foresight in this opening post of yours. Way back in 1979 the wife wanted to try detecting, but my choice was dredging. Anyway she got her way so we were given a Whites Coinmaster 5000 to try out at Wedderburn Vic 350 mile away. Carol was hooked so I had to go along with her detecting. The pro detectorists said the Whites or Garretts were the best for chasing gold. As the Garrett ADS Deepseeker was the newest, that what I got her. It required a lot of effort to learn and was not her cup of tea. So guess what, I inherit the Garretts and I had to get a Whites Coinmaster 6000 for her. As it was a lot easier to master I had a happy wife, and my dredging took second place to detecting. As my job was in a Power Station Control Room fiddling all the controls I took to the Garretts like a house on fire. When Minelab came on the scene I was not impressed. When ML went from VLF to PI my brother in-law got a SD2000. He had little chance of getting more gold than Carol or Me at the time as the gold size was small and he did not have the "trigger time" or knowledge of using it to it best advantage. It took 10 years for me to up grade to ML PI (brought 2 of the lastest PI then) even those I had built my own PI a few years before ML SD 2000 hit the market. Trigger time Hours or should I say Days, Weeks or Years spent at it. Location is more important than the best/newest detector. That is not flogged, appropriate to your equipment (depth and size of target) or finding virgin patches. Choosing Terrain which comes from experience of finding targets in many spots. So as usual F350Platinium you are on the ball again. Detecting is for fun, the hourly rate in dollars is usually low, so justifying a new detector has to be based on the FUN and love of TECHNOLOGY and the only thing money is good for is spending.

Watch out DOC I'm a little older than you, your list.......Cake, Park, Caution, Marriage, Rest, Notice, Boat, Planet, Knee, Phone...... I don't know what a "Caution" or a "Phone" are. So your method don't work for me, is it age that has caused this outcome. 😟

That horse shoe in your bling, has contributed to your success. The photo of the three Rings two Silver and one 14ct Au came up great.

If you use the setting and select ¼ it will be less of a Migraine

That would be a factor, being smaller means less detector signal from it as well as slipping out of their hands or pockets etc.

Gold prospectors said that when the found a 413 ounce nugget back in the 1890s The town of Marble Bar was officially gazetted in 1893 following the discovery of gold in the area in 1890 by a prospector In 1891 the town boasted a population in excess of 5,000 after a rush on the goldfields. Several large gold nuggets were discovered as a result of the goldrush. The 333 ounce Little Hero nugget, the 413 ounce Bobby Dazzler and the 332 ounce General Gordon nugget were all found in the goldfields around the town.

That work would of taken a lot of dedication to have all those parts square and parallel. A real pleasure to see your effort.

Eric you did not tell our USA friends that you got more small coins (2$) than the large ones ($1). I believe that is because you normally get only one, 1$ coin in your change where as you can get one or two, $2 or more. Eric I told you to leave my beach alone and not advertise it to other so I an angry but will forgive you once again but you only get limited pardons. 😜

Mine was obtained as soon as it was released back then. The price was reasonable but can't remember how much, not like today everything is priced as much as they can get.

Not looking ahead at the prospects of the 80,s 😧

Interesting finds, go get some more for me to drool over.

Have the same book Reg, although it is now a bit mangled from over use, just as I expect yours to be even worst. 😁

When the Deputies find out the deal with their boss, did not include them. I am sure they need to make a vacancy for their own promotion at the Police Station. No need to eliminate the Judge as he would not have any case from the Deputies. 😉

Great find ½ ounce of Ag. Your weather condition are matching our Victorian Summer Temp. and Wind today and not the normal 30 to 40 C°. It a stay inside today for me.😠

Will it happen again with the worlds fait currency in trouble U.S. gold standard timeline 1879: The gold standard is adopted by the U.S. 1879 to 1914: The so-called classical gold standard era. One ounce of gold represents $21. 1933: The U.S. bans gold ownership. Franklin D. Roosevelt uses the authority granted to the president by the Trading with the Enemy Act to require all U.S. citizens to sell their gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per ounce. This is knows as Roosevelt's Executive Order 6102. Jewelry and rare coins are excluded. The process of seizing all the gold allows the governments to print more dollars and stimulate the economy. 1934: The value of the dollar in gold is changed from $20.67 to $35 per ounce. 1950s: Black market for gold is on the rise. 1971: The price of gold is no longer fixed to the U.S. dollar. Richard Nixon puts a halt on the U.S. dollar’s convertibility into gold. This means that other countries can no longer redeem dollars for gold. 1973: Nixon scraps the gold standard. 1974: Roosevelt’s Executive Order to nationalize all privately-owned gold is repealed and Congress restores the U.S. citizens’ right to own gold. 1977: Trading With The Enemy Act is amended, removing the U.S. president’s authority to control gold transactions during a period of national emergency, aside from during a time of war. At the same time, International Emergency Economic Powers Act is introduced, which gives powers to the president to regulate international commerce after declaring a national emergency. 2020: Trading With The Enemy Act and International Emergency Economic Powers Act are both still in force. "United States Gold Confiscation—1933 Labeled Executive Order 6102, President Franklin Roosevelt signed on a law on April 5, 1933 “forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” It basically meant that private owners were required to take their coins, bars or gold certificates to a bank, and exchange them for US dollars at the prevailing rate of $20.67 per ounce...... “Under the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917, as later amended by the Emergency Banking Act of March 9, 1933, violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000, up to ten years in prison, or both. Numerous individuals and companies were prosecuted.” $10,000 was a fortune in 1933!...Worse, the ban on private ownership of gold in America—the home of the free—lasted over four decades. Not until January 1, 1975 could US citizens own more than $100 in gold again". " Australia Gold Confiscation—1959 The Australian government similarly nationalized gold. The law, part of the Banking Act in 1959, allowed gold seizures of private citizens if the Governor determined it was “expedient so to do, for the protection of the currency or of the public credit of the Commonwealth.” In other words, they made it legal to seize gold from private citizens and exchange it for paper currency. The country’s Treasurer stated in a press release that followed, “All gold (other than wrought gold and coins to a limited extent) had to be delivered to the Reserve Bank of Australia within one month of its coming into a person's possession.” The law also said you weren’t allowed to sell gold, except to the Reserve Bank of Australia (their central bank). Nor could you export any gold (send it outside the country) without the bank’s permission. .....the law....destroyed the local private gold market overnight. Like the US ban, this rule wasn’t short lived either. Reports indicate it stayed on the books until 1976, a full 17 years, before being “suspended.”

Victorian's avoca tressure hunt This might interest you Jason if we let you into Australia 🙂 ....LINK.... Sample..... Below are three separate stories are about buried treasure near Inverloch that I have discovered and researched. It seems that there should be some sort of a connection between them but if so, I simply haven’t been able to find it. Maybe one day, you will make that connection! Inverloch, 1954 and Donald Nicholson. Near Inverloch, an elderly gentleman named Donald Nicholson spent 15 years digging for lost treasure amongst the sand dunes of Savages Hill. .............>At the selection at Tarwin the detectives found 310 of the 5000 missing coins. Later the officers were able to account for a further 1420 coins including ones that that Wiberg had sent to Melbourne for the purchase of a boat.

If you screw the detector up to max and do an air test on the smallest coin you are chasing the depth is the deepest the hole has to be in the manicured lawn(handy when doing visible public locations.). The air test lets you know the max sensitivity of the detector, but not the depth in the ground, you need bucket (plastic) of hot soil from the hunt location to determine it depth for each target. Testing is to give you information that allows you to Guess what the target is. Note lifting the coil as high as you can and get a definite signal helps. Most very deep nuggets sound like ground noise and quite wide if it is ground noise 4" off the ground it will usually disappear. If you still have the signal then you have a high chance of success. Note most tuning of detectors say to go up and down 4" to balance out the ground noise(that covers what I said above). There has been a lot of good information posted by others and I hope (those that are not my patch) members benefit from it and more thoughts are given by others. EDIT......One other thing to test is once you have a signal, leave it there and have a play with the setting to get the best signal then step back a yard or two and approach it at your normal scanning speed and see how it reacts.

WOW over 8 pennyweight from a small wash and with a VLF.

It might give away one of my spots, but here goes. I was in the area near a Wolfram mine within a 100 km from Leonora West Aust. Note if anyone find the spot I don't want to know how much gold I left behind. 🤐

That's a good day. My best day was also 26+ ounces but I did not have to share it with any crew. I had to spend some of it on the wife.😉

It all depends on what get thrown at you on the health side and if you are strong enough to carry all of those pills. ☠️

And SCAMMERS know money transaction can be traced.

Simon tell them to use a smaller coil if they want to pick up your small NZ nuggets. I am sure they are casing you residence, so keep your doors locked.