my first coin find

[Graybeard]

I was at Talbot goldfields Sunday the 4th March. I found my first coin ... a 1824 fourpence. The other side of the coin in really poor condition but the date side in remarkably good nick. Oh yes also found 2 small nuggets.

 

[silver]

Nice groat Greybeard !
:Y: :Y:
coin info 8) 1842 :Y:

 

[Graybeard]

Nice groat Greybeard !
:Y: :Y:
coin info 8) 1842 :Y:
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1520166205_screenshot_2018-03-04-22-22-14.jpg

Thank you Silver, that was a quick response. But is it worth anything? I guess if 3/4 of a million were made then it's worth fourpence LOL.
oops didn't see the value info.. around $10 au. I think I'll keep it. The last time it was handled would be by some pommy miner back in the gold rush era probably around 1850.

 

[silver]

Its worth as a keepsake is priceless mate.... it'll lose nearly all that upon sale ! :Y:
8) on the mantle with it

 

[golddiggerart]

Gotta be one of the best examples of a Groat I have seen.... Beauty mate.... :Y:

 

[Ramjet]

WOW. What an awesome first coin. i have been after a four pence for 5 years. Congrats.

Surely worthy to be entered into the COIN of the month for March. https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=393976

 

[pete165]

Well done on finding a groat on the first hunt. Keep it up.

 

[Heatho]

Very nice coin, well done. :Y:

 

[Trash]

Wow

A coin hunters bucket list coin

Well done

 

[DetectingSA]

170+ year old silver coin, you don't find much better than that in Australia.

Beautiful coin

 

[AussieChris]

Mate that certainly is a nice way to start your collection, you are going to have to work hard to better it!

Hopefully a sovereign pops its head up for you

 

[Graybeard]

I'm stoked!! thank you all for your comments. I wasn't searching for relics or coins, I was poking around looking for gold. Suddenly the sdc began screaming its head off, at first I thought it was a lump of rusty iron, but, they say to investigate all signals and about 25cm down I got this odd looking coin. I asked a fellow prospector nearbye and he said it was a fourpence. Never heard of one, heard of thrupence. He also told me that it was an old pommy coin and that they also made fivepence as well. I'll definitely be keeping it. You can buy dozens on e-bay, cheapest being around $10, but it's not the same. This could have bought a meal for the poor miner.

The place is at Talbot, off Possum gully rd. Someone else from our group pulled a 2 gram nugget over 40 cm down with a GPZ7000. My 2 pickers together would be about 1/2 gram. I doubt that my sdc would have picked the 2 grammer at that depth.

 

[Goldpick]

Definitely a contender for coin of the month, lovely find and one of the rarer coins out there. :Y:

 

[Wally69]

That is a ripper of a coin, good enough to feature as an avitar, then I'll get to see it more often

 

[Dignit]

Great coin Graybeard. A coin like that is as good as a piece of gold. :Y:

 

[roy cobb]

Thats a great find there Graybeard and to be your first coin cant top that
Roy

 

[Wishfull]

Nice find there. Can we have a picture of the nuggets too ?