Top three items on your bucket list for coin/jewellery/relic shooting?

[the duck]

My ultimate is a snake buckle with victoria written on it
A naval torpedo button from australia
And holey dollar and or dump

 

[treasureman]

Viking coin
An intact tobacco pipe ( clay )
A gold tooth / plate

lol @ wally and lasiter's.. its out there somewhere..next to the nugget thats the size of a VW

swear i found a silver tooth the other week

 

[AtomRat]

Viking coin
An intact tobacco pipe ( clay )
A gold tooth / plate

lol @ wally and lasiter's.. its out there somewhere..next to the nugget thats the size of a VW

swear i found a silver tooth the other week

ooohh that would be cool too! any tooth's the truth!

 

[TheSilentBugler]

Swivel Gun

Dubloon

Sov

Might take a while, but I've got time

 

[rocketaroo]

Swivel Gun

Dubloon

Sov

Might take a while, but I've got time

You may need to wreck dive for 2 of them!

 

[TheSilentBugler]

Nah, once I find the mohogany ship lodged on lassiters reef I'll be set

 

[Goldpick]

Top three:
1) Holey Dollar
2) 1930 Penny
3) Gold coin (Sov or Half Sov).
.....who knows, one day.....

Geez, I totally forgot about the Holey dollar, though I might have better chances checking old washers on clothes lines and fence posts for those ( if you recall those particular stories).

 

[silver]

might check all my washer containers now(ha).

 

[Sandta]

Top three:
1) Holey Dollar
2) 1930 Penny
3) Gold coin (Sov or Half Sov).
.....who knows, one day.....

Geez, I totally forgot about the Holey dollar, though I might have better chances checking old washers on clothes lines and fence posts for those ( if you recall those particular stories).

I remember them

 

[silver]

Maybe there will be a few of them in my tin full( read F U L L ) of Sovs etc.

 

[Sandta]

Maybe there will be a few of them in my tin full( read F U L L ) of Sovs etc.

I meant ,i remember the stories... I was visiting the outlaws farm

 

[cabwoody]

I read a story recently that was based in my local area. The author retold a story that was told to him by a friend of a local farmer. Quite a few years ago the farmer was digging some holes for fence posts when he noticed what looked to be a washer in the dug out soil. He put it in his pocket and thought nothing more of it until that night when he emptied his pockets. He noticed some writing on it, cleaned it, but didn't know what it was. He took it to the local jeweller who had a look at it. The jeweller offered him a few thousand dollars for it which the farmer accepted, ironically enough, because he wanted to buy a metal detector. The farmer's friend then went on to say he did some research at the time, but didn't have the heart to tell his friend that the coin was a holey dollar and at the time was worth about $75,000. Others have since sold at auction for many times that amount.

 

[Sandta]

WOW ...

 

[cabwoody]

How they came to be....commonly used coins in the new colony of New South Wales were British, Dutch, Indian and Portuguese, however these coins rapidly depleted through constant trade with visiting merchant ships. Governor Lachlan Macquarie used 40,000 Spanish dollars (about 10,000 worth) sent by the Btritish government, to produce double the amount of coins by having the centre punched out. This created the outer Holey Dollar, and the inner 'Dump'. The coins arrived in 1812, a convicted forger was put into service to cut out the centres and counter-stamp them, and the coins went into circulation in 1814. The coins started to be recalled in 1822, being replaced with British coins. It's estimated that about 350 Holey Dollars and 39,000 dumps remain. They're highly sort after as they represent the first official currency produced exclusively for Australia. In 2012 a Holey Dollar was sold at auction for $495,000.

 

[silver]

Onto them old clothes lines then Sandta (all of them)(ha).

 

[treasureman]

are holy dollars really worth 75000+?

 

[silver]

are holy dollars really worth 75000+?

Only the good ones TM.

 

[cabwoody]

Depends on a few factors such as where minted, monarch/date portrayed, and quality. They're very rare which is why it's at the top of my bucket list. Similarly the 1930 Penny. I only know of one detectorist (on another forum) who has found one with a detector. The gold Sovereign also varies in value depending on where minted, date and quality. One can dream....

 

[Sandta]

A similar recent post reminded me of this...
I just read back through this topic and realised that i just found 2 of the items i listed here in my latest hunt
I also dug a few eyelets... So im gonna double check my trash that i threw out

 

[Ramjet]

A similar recent post reminded me of this...
I just read back through this topic and realised that i just found 2 of the items i listed here in my latest hunt
I also dug a few eyelets... So im gonna double check my trash that i threw out

Awesome that you can cross those items off your list. Of course you will have to add a couple more.