Pictures of last years Silver.

[Westaus]

Just be careful in cleaning any coin, as soon as you do value drops a lot. However if it is just for the enjoyment a shiny coin looks much better, just check first that you are not potentially throwing $0,000's of dollars away. If it needs to be cleaned there are professional services that do it.

I found it a little funny that to clean the salt crust, salt (+ vinegar) was added, certainly did a nice job though. Great finds and thanks for sharing.

Just to add, any coins with verdigris should be kept totally separate to all other coins it will contaminate them as well. Finally be careful putting in old albums as a lot of these contain PVC and this will also effect Silver and Copper coins. Not associated with them but have used them, "The Purple Penny" sells a fantastic product that is totally safe if you want to protect your treasures.

 

[silver]

Yes those coins with the green verdgris went into a separate bag after the photo shoot !

Just be careful in cleaning any coin, as soon as you do value drops a lot. However if it is just for the enjoyment a shiny coin looks much better, just check first that you are not potentially throwing $0,000's of dollars away. If it needs to be cleaned there are professional services that do it.

I found it a little funny that to clean the salt crust, salt (+ vinegar) was added, certainly did a nice job though. Great finds and thanks for sharing.

Just to add, any coins with verdigris should be kept totally separate to all other coins it will contaminate them as well. Finally be careful putting in old albums as a lot of these contain PVC and this will also effect Silver and Copper coins. Not associated with them but have used them, "The Purple Penny" sells a fantastic product that is totally safe if you want to protect your treasures.

 

[silver]

I was talking to my Uncle today(86) and he was telling me that the 1934 shilling with the hole in it was used by the German and Italian prisoners of war in their internment camps during world war two(he was in the army for his entire working life mostly) I talked about the special issues for the camps, and he was adamant that they put that hole in the normal coins for that use as well.
That photo again of the 1934 shilling with the hole in it

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and a close up of the hole.

and this time the other side as well.

and a close up of this side of the hole as well.

Has anyone seen more of these, maybe someone in the past mentioned them ?

 

[silver]

Well here is a picture of a 1913 florin I found the other day, up above the beach in the grassy area.

 

[Goldpick]

Those grassy areas between the dunes and main road certainly should be looked at more often, you also tend to get a lot of tourists dropping foreign coins as well for something different. Good to find the full silver pre-decs, can't wait to stumble across my first florin, hopefully an older one.

 

[Eurekaman]

I thought I'd show last years Silver coins from all the various hunts put together.
In the first picture all the 50% silver is on the left, with the pre 1945 .925 silver coins on the right.
The four coins on the extreme right are Victorian sixpences top to bottom 1874, 1883, 1881 & 1881.
The one with the hole in the centre is a 1934 shilling that was used as a washer or a spacer.(pity it wasn't a holey dollar).
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394289731_sam_1019.jpg
Now for the sectionised pictures.
young florins
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394289864_sam_1037.jpg
old florin
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394289900_sam_1038.jpg
young shillings
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394289960_sam_1039.jpg
old shillings
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290040_sam_1040.jpg
closeup of the holey shilling(didn't really go any closer)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290141_sam_1041.jpg
young sixpences
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290178_sam_1042.jpg
old sixpences
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290226_sam_1043.jpg
Victorian era sixpences
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290299_sam_1044.jpg
young threepences
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290339_sam_1045.jpg
old threepences
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1953/1394290380_sam_1046.jpg
Some are good, some are bad, but they all made me happier when I found them !!!
66 silvers there.

Wow love the silver mate especially all the
Florins but they need a good clean
Electrolisis will strip away that grime
And with a light run with baking soda
They will gleam
EM

 

[silver]

Definitely going to have to give that a go on a few of them as some of them won't even look at my other methods and other times they build up that fast they just get stored for later attention.

 

[treasureman]

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

 

[silver]

Bit by bit she shorely builds TM.

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

 

[Jaros]

Bit by bit she shorely builds TM.

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

Hey Silver, say that 5 times after a cuppla long necks. :/

 

[silver]

I'll try that this evening Jaros,...If Mrs Silver comes good with a few for me(here's hoping).

Bit by bit she shorely builds TM.

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

Hey Silver, say that 5 times after a cuppla long necks. :/

 

[Eurekaman]

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

It's all about research, research and more
Research TM
EM

 

[silver]

And it helps to feel like you are an amateur historian as well,....that way you start to think properly about all that research you end up doing, and it all branches out to seeing more than the average person with your eyes on whatever they fall upon.

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

It's all about research, research and more
Research TM
EM

 

[Eurekaman]

And it helps to feel like you are an amateur historian as well,....that way you start to think properly about all that research you end up doing, and it all branches out to seeing more than the average person with your eyes on whatever they fall upon.

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this

It's all about research, research and more
Research TM
EM

Yes yes and yes lol
I like feeling like an amateur historian
EM

 

[silver]

Ok I said that I would post up an old coin spill,...I know I said 18 coins, but I was wrong(sorry), it's only 17 coins,...I thought the youngest was 1944, but once again I was wrong,...it was 1948, and it spans all the way back to 1910,...all of these coins came out of the one plug and it was only a standard five inch square plug(thereabouts).I will let the photos speak for themselves.
It was found on the 20th of April 2010(as written then).

and then of course there is the silver.

You can clearly see the great range of coinage in use around 1948,..and the state of some of those coins then.
You can see that they were all placed down in a stack and just forgotten about, some of them protected each other.
And I still feel the thrill of that find(even now).
It's a nice little excursion through a window into the past.

 

[Eurekaman]

That's a fantastic find Silver and I can relate
To the thrill you got from the time you found
them, I can still remember such finds
Not as big but still nice coin finds and that buzz
EM

 

[Sandta]

Thats awesome!
I watched a bloke on youtube pull a heap of coins out of the one hole ... Lucky so n so
An Aussie ... In WA i think ... 20 - 30 coins ? ( cant remember exactly)
I hope i get to experience that one day

 

[Mikezoom]

Wow nice!!!

Still swinging for mine...

Mike.

 

[silver]

It's all out there in the ground still waiting to be found by ya's,...amazing how in just one moment of confusion, someone(before mowers were common place) could walk away from that little lot and never find it again themselves,....probably a sound flogging involved with coming home without that change,....surely at best it would have been sorely missed at a moment of need,...War had been over for a while by then though, times would of been fairly happy go lucky, so, maybe no one even noticed it missing(therefore not a full on recovery search involved),...I'm just happy to be able to look after it for now, and actually share a look at it with you all,...one day it would be nice to frame it up for proper display(better than it sitting in a snaplock wrapped up in tissue).

 

[silver]

I see that's starting to fast track along those lines for you too nowadays TM.

what a nice collection silver. im hoping one day to have something along the lines of this