Race track day 2

[Alfie]

Another great day at the track most money I have ever made at the races
70 more pre decimals today makes the total for 2 days:
20x one penny
14x half penny
8x florin
17x shilling
25x sixpence
63x threepence

Pretty stoked can't wait to get back there again!!!!!!

 

[Paulmarr]

WOW

 

[dryhorrors]

wow indeed great haul mate gotta be a prize for that

 

[Goldpick]

Holy geez, gotta find myself a racetrack! Seems rare to find a "virgin" area these days, but you seemed to have stumbled across one, well done, and yes, I'm jealous!

 

[ANGRE7]

That is just a seriously WTF type of post! Welldone on one of the best hauls ive seen on this forum

 

[Ramjet]

Oh my giddy aunt. You've struck a silver mine there Alfie. The total you get from this site (if it ever stops giving) is going to be astounding.

 

[BigSam]

Wow! Great stuff mate!

 

[Goldandsand]

Oh my god ! 8) great haul there .

 

[Muttering]

geebus

 

[Mackka]

Great work Alfie.
For those blokes near Bowral NSW I remember a place where they held the Bong Bong Cup, maybe that would be worth a look.
Can't wait to get my AT Gold in the next few weeks.
Cheers
Mackka

 

[Pilsner]

That's unreal
It'll be hard to beat, great job Alfie

 

[brodie]

hi all,
I couldn't let alfie take all the credit for this massive haul so I thought I would join the forum.
me and my Garrett at pro deserve some recognition. I will be back at the racecourse tomorrow and will add some more pics.
the coins showed no signs of slowing down when we left today. there were targets every 2 feet in places. unbelievable.

 

[Shane]

Id be stoked. Nice find. Need a hand

 

[Silver_Fox]

Sigh....
Makes me want to go out now!

Great work!

SF

 

[the duck]

well now i have to eat my words what a day well done

 

[Heatho]

Awesome!!

 

[Joshwasere]

Beastmode!

 

[Alfie]

Would anyone have a ruff estimate on the value I don't know much about coins I just like digging them up

 

[Sa_bogan]

http://www.australian-threepence.com/silver-coin-values/australian-silver-coin-values.htm
You would have to say depending on the year and condition you could just be looking at melt value

 

[Paulmarr]

There are a couple of ways to value them - scrap value and numismatic value.

Scrap value is easy to calculate - silver coins were 50% silver from 46-64 generally speaking and 92% silver older than 1946.

Sort them by date and place them on a scale to get weights at 50% silver and 92% silver. Silver is approx $23 per Oz and there are 31 grams in a Troy ounce so about 75 cents a gram for 999 pure silver - .68 per gram for 92% and .37 per gram of 50%

The other way is value to a collector - and condition is everything but you might find a key date that is worth some $$$ more than an average date coin. As these were in the ground and collectors don't want coins which have been cleaned it pays to check the dates before "cleaning them up"

I reckon they are worth more to keep them considering the time invested and cost of equipment vs the $100 for scrap you might get.