Hunterjunk

Like phrunt i also note with interest the similar numbers of some of your US coins to our British style gold coins . Half Sovereign = 15  .  Full Sovereign = 18 out of ground , but can be a bit flakey in ground with 17's showing at times . And the Guinea = 18 solid in ground and out .

Saw a beauty a few years ago up here in Northern Tasmania . Driving home late at night in a country area , no lighting to lessen the effect of the meteor's brightness . It appeared from my RHS passing high above the car , disappearing low over the horizon to my left . A dazzling bright green light that lit the countryside so brightly that i could see like it was daylight ! Nearly ran off the road as i had never seen anything like it . It's an awesome experience if your ever lucky enough to see one .

I know little about American coinage but the Half and Full Dollar coins in your first photo sure are beautiful coins !  Congrats ,  and good luck with finding a gold coin , they seem to turn up when you least expect one .

Ripper bunch of finds !  A nice bottle collection in one hunt .

I would not be surprised to see a fine gold chain ring up as a 1 .  Recently i found a 40 cm coarse gold chain at the 4 to 5 inch mark on a saltwater beach . It was nearly straight in the sand , not bunched up , no clasp etc . Gave a fairly consistent 2  . 

Keep looking for that other half , it's working a treat !  Congrats .

7 hours ago, geof_junk said:

What I did to a spoked coil was place a skid on the bottom then used an expanding foam to fill the area between the spocks and scaped of the excess to made the top level it worked but was not pretty but kept the weight down. A bit of self adhesive book covering stop build up of dust in the foam as no wear occurs on the top of the coil. 

Now that's an interesting idea !  Will be giving that some thought , thank you .

Thanks for that GB . I have seen it . A couple of years ago i molded up a snap on one . Worked ok but collected rocks and dirt on top of the coil . Was also a bit brittle , when i hit a rock it cracked up . A thin solid coil would have me handing over my cash quickly !

21 hours ago, rudiger said:

Well done, what an awesome find. Are you using a stock coil?

Yes the 11 inch is my bush coil . Drives me nuts with all the sticks that get caught in it but there is no real alternative . I use the 15" in open grassed areas . The 6" drives me nuts , just takes to long to cover any ground . Wish they made a solid 10" for the Nox .

4 hours ago, Tom_in_CA said:

Stunningly beautiful !   How many gold coins total do you have now ?

Thanks Tom . This one makes four now with three of them inside the last twelve months . I have had an amazing run of luck with my mates giving me some funny looks !

Good play on words !  No i have not had it appraised and don't think i ever will . I cannot bear to sell any of my finds , my wife and child will deal with that when i am gone . To me all my finds are a story i can hold in my hand , and they represent many hard hours in the bush .

Thanks Geof-junk , the Guinea must have been carried as a memento or insurance policy as it has not been circulated . Minted at 8.4 grams and still weighs that . Note though the 4 little centre pop marks on the neck line and one on top of the head that have been done with something like a sharp awl . This coin has been personalized , probably in case of theft .

By luck and many hard yards i have now found 4 gold coins in 9 years of detecting , 3 of those in the last 12 months with the wonderful , if leaky , Nox ! Reckon i have used all my luck now .

4 hours ago, Joe D. said:

Awsome finds! Is that a broken cup, or bowl surrounding the other objects! And is that a gold ring in the upper right? 👍👍

Turned out it was a broken teapot . If i find a lot of pieces of a pottery item i sometimes take them home and glue them together . I found i hadn't picked up enough of this one to bother . Maybe the old miner smashed it in temper when he realized he had lost his Guinea !

There is a ring there and it is stamped 18k , but must have only been plated as it's all brass now . May have been tossed when the owner found out he had been duped .

A short window of luck has given me another gold coin . Eleven days ago while on an organized field day with many prospectors i came across an old miners camp site . Being a relic focused detectorist i worked the site hard . The other coins from the site point to occupation between 1870 - 1890 so finding a 1798 gold Spade Guinea created quite a stir ! Minting of this coin stopped in 1799 . In 1798 my state was not populated by the English and was only just being found to be a separate land mass from mainland Australia . I still get a smile on my face when i think of finding this coin ! 

25mm diameter , 8.4 grams . Solid 18 on the Nox in ground [5 inches] and out .

A wonderful find . The translator on the other hand , should be burned at the stake !

17 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Nice that they saved the best for you!  Do you still have more area there to cover?

Yep , you can cover miles of country here that has been mined . Much has a cover of bracken fern which ensures it's never hunted out .

Had some luck during the week finding my 3rd gold coin in 9 years of detecting , so i am feeling the buzz again . This one is an 1853 Half Sovereign , 22ct , 19mm diameter . Came from a well hunted spot where virtually every target over 20 on the Nox has been cleaned up by the high tone hunters .  This was 15 in all directions at around the 5 inch mark . Found a nice brooch and pendant as well . The hunt area is a well known gold mining town dating back to the 1870's .

Great to see a powder flask posted up , they are one of my favorite finds no matter what condition . There never seems to be two the same and are art works in brass and copper . I have long wondered why there are so few posted here . I have thought about posting up a powder flask topic that everybody could contribute to but wonder if there would be any interest ? I hope your bridge / ford area continues to give up finds like this .

Still good results Erik , a real Sovereign could still be lurking there . I have found two Sovereigns and both read 17-18 in ground , and a solid 18 out , on the Nox . They also look like gold before any cleaning . I suggest if you do find one that you be very careful about cleaning as a lot of value can be scrubbed away . A running tap with a very gentle brush with a soft tooth brush was it for me , some would say that even that is too much . The full Sovereign is about the size of a thin 10 cent piece . The half is more like a 5 cent , Aussie coins i mean . Good luck .

Well done mate . There is still a few people that care although it seems they are becoming a minority . Here in my coastal town in Tasmania we have incidences like that often during the summer period as groups of young people get a carton of beer , sit on the beach and break every stubby as they empty it . I pick up all glass as i see it , and i see plenty . All glass containers should be banned from beach areas in my view .

That's a pity mate , i am sure the weird things that TT inflict on that forum are killing it . That town sounds amazing , hope you make a killing there and post it all here . Best of luck .

Wow you smashed that small silver ! You must have hit some undetected ground , which is a feat just in it's self ! Great research equals great results . Will you post them on AMDRH ? Finding 4 Groats is outstanding and would take you straight to the top of the tally board ! Congrats . WH

Some other company's could do with a straight shooter fronts person like her . And look at those lovely thick coil ears ! I can see at least one of the new coils being added to my outfit .

That's both a crazy , and wonderful find ! Great condition , and , how did it get there ?! Metal detecting often throws up more questions than answers . Congrats .

My TRX's interfere a bit with my VLF detectors if i lay the detector to close while i dig . It's no big problem though . The machine that hates the TRX in my experience is the Surf P.I. , Sends mine bonkers up to a Metre away !