⭐ Treasure Hunting Show & Tell - Show us your favourite, oldest, best finds.

[Danny13]

Found this while noodling out west , I call it outback sunset after a few forum members commented on how it looks like a sunset .

 

[Danny13]

 

[TonyynoT]

That is seriously beautiful mate

 

[NeilM]

:Y: Yep seriously x 2

 

[Wrecka67]

1906 Six pence
1919 Penny
and Brass boot Spur

all found in the same church yard , i need to revisit soon.

 

[Sandta]

Very crisp looking silver :Y:

 

[Ivo]

My most favorite find to date something really special has to top it

 

[Whisp]

Well done that man, one of 4,635,287 made and depending on condition worth up $670 :Y: :Y: :Y:

 

[pete165]

Well done mate . Nice find. Only wish I could find one myself. Was it in a park ?

 

[Wrecka67]

Very crisp looking silver :Y:

 

[tailormarc]

This is one of my fav finds, it was a surface find in a little out back wheat belt town here in W.A.
As i found it....
image by Marc Russo, on Flickr

image by Marc Russo, on Flickr

After a clean and bought a 925 silver surround...
Nice holder for the 1916 silver florin I found metal detecting by Marc Russo, on Flickr

Nice holder for the 1916 silver florin I found metal detecting by Marc Russo, on Flickr

 

[Shovelstu]

One of my favourite finds was this Bird on Cross Saxon Sceat, dated 670-710AD.
Came from a small grass field in southern England. Found with a Laser (Tesoro) B1 Highpower, at about 6 inches deep.

 

[Mrsvan560]

Beautiful

 

[gregso]

my fav is my avatar

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10.3crt rough 4.79 cut.
also a couple of smaller ones. picked them up last year at sapphire.

pictures are not much good.

 

[Johnson1987c]

I dont think I can post photos yet, but some of my favourite finds are: WWII Australian Rising Sun thats in excellent condition, WWI medallion, authentic Harley Davidson belt buckle, US dog tags, and a rare YMCA Australian military badge.

 

[goody2shoes]

Don't have a picture of it but I found $250 dollars one afternoon ,

It was laying on the side of the road,

It was a while back now,

The good part of it I was totally broke, so the money came in handy big time,

 

[ctxkid]

my fav coin so far , for a few reasons :Y:
it came from the first goldfields
it is 8 years older than said fields
i dug it under 6 inches from someone else's unfilled holes ickshovel: arty: arty:
it speaks to me of what it may have been like for the poor bugger that lost it :awful: :8

 

[Wrecka67]

Lovely Coin mate, im still waiting for my 1st 1800's silver.............

 

[Dave79]

The equinox! Got me hooked on detecting and there's no going back! :inlove:

 

[Moneybox]

On September 23rd Phil dragged me out into the wilds at the crack of dawn (which is 8am for me :zzz: ). I'm more a crack of mid-morning type.... I get my second wind about 10pm!! By midnight I'm wide awake, hehehe. layful:

The plan was to find something, anything. Phil enthusiastically set off with the Go-Find 40, his pick and hoe ickshovel: but it was already hot and I just couldn't be bothered swinging a detector. So while Phil wandered around aimfully detecting to his heart's content I dragged myself around aimlessly just specking the surface. I figured if I saw something it would be easier to bend down and pick it up rather than have to dig. As I said, I just couldn't be bothered. I had the enthusiasm of a legless fly, i.e.. a sit. :|

It grew hotter and hotter and after a couple of hours Phil slowly meandered his way back to me with a grand show and tell total of.... nothing :brokenh: . I gave him the usual comforting cuddle and commiserations. I tried hard to keep looking at the ground and hide my little grin O . After all, I had specked something really cool.

Just a minute earlier I had been picking up a few buttons in a spill when I noticed something that looked just a bit odd. You've got to check it out haven't you? Well, I do {) . It was half-buried so I carefully dug around it using fingers only. To my surprise there was a tiny cast iron sitting smack bang in the palm of my hand. Gorgeous little thing and I was delighted. Eventually, I couldn't hold my grin back and I slowly held out my lovely relic and showed Phil. :trophy:

Thankfully, he was suitably impressed and I think this is my favourite relic find to date. :inlove:

A bit of research shows my baby iron is a vintage miniature salesman sample. The salesmen used to go door to door with a whole plethora of teeny kitchenalia and tools etcetera. You'd pick what you wanted and a full sized version would be delivered later. I also have a miniature bicycle tyre patch press with Dunlop embossed on it but that wasn't dug. My dear mum gave it to me recently after I showed her my new iron. I guess she figured I didn't know how to use either of them. Smartypants.

Now I know about these lovely miniatures I would love to get some more for my collection, lol. Oh no... another monster unleashed, hehehe. layful: