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In a strip of lawn next to carpark, South Hobart.
 
That is definitely a find that gets the imagination rolling. :rolleyes: :p

I would love to dig a 20x20 hole and see if anything else pops out, but that exercise would probably be considered as having national significance and done by someone with half a dozen letters behind their name.

You have definitely found the holy grail of Aussie coin-shooting - something that should just not be there. Congratulations and hope you can sleep with all that excitement.
 
Badminton carpark. A complex site as it's below an old tip site and lord knows how many times it's been bulldozed. No doubt nowhere near where it was originally dropped.
 
This is a find of some historical significance in that it may prove that the Dutch were hanging around Tasmania before Cook. Certainly they had mapped Western Australia. You should report it to Hobart's museum who may arrange a dig there to look for other coins.

cheers Peter
 
pberrett said:
This is a find of some historical significance in that it may prove that the Dutch were hanging around Tasmania before Cook. Certainly they had mapped Western Australia. You should report it to Hobart's museum who may arrange a dig there to look for other coins.

cheers Peter
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ahem!, they were there, in 1642.... and Cook never was!

Tasmania is named after it's discoverer Abel Tasman.

casper
 
casper said:
pberrett said:
This is a find of some historical significance in that it may prove that the Dutch were hanging around Tasmania before Cook. Certainly they had mapped Western Australia. You should report it to Hobart's museum who may arrange a dig there to look for other coins.

cheers Peter
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ahem!, they were there, in 1642.... and Cook never was!

Tasmania is named after it's discoverer Abel Tasman.

casper
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Hmm, I guess that means that able tasman's great grandson came back 120 years later to see how the family island was progressing, about the time Cook was in diapers. Or the coin collector with the market stall was a bit clumsy when he packed up for the day.

Very interesting
 
Great find. Most likely dropped by a sailor or early settler as they were sometimes used as proclamation coins.
 

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