Wally69's Nugget Hunting Practice. The By-Catch.

[Wally69]

Sixpence is interesting - anyone know if the small 9 is a known variant ?

 

[7.62marksman]

coin what coin
oh that coin ] ] ] ] ] :8 :8 :8 :8

 

[Sandta]

Sixpence is interesting - anyone know if the small 9 is a known variant ?

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1916/1502533685_image.jpg

Very interesting

 

[golddiggerart]

Look like a mint error coin, I would look into it considering the small 9... Nice find that one. :Y:

 

[silver]

Looking good, nice condition 6d too ,.... but what pray tell is the florin then ?
:Y: :Y:
gettin a good fill of silvers right now I am.

 

[Heatho]

Nice coin Wally, it's quite a low mintage and a key date, but that 9 looks nothing like any of the other 1939 examples on a google search that I did, I'd call the Wynyard coin centre or someone like that.

 

[Wally69]

Here you go Silver, got a bit of restoration work to do on this one

Look like the 9 has a split tail, possibly from being sheared off and rotated at the mint. Can't see any other marks indicating it was post mint. Interesting phenomena, keen to find out if it increases or decreases the value of this key date sixpence.

 

[Heatho]

Bit of a weird one, ha, gotta love the weird ones....... :lol:

 

[silver]

Yeah, you can see where it should have been hey !

 

[Wally69]

Out for a family walk this afternoon, still looking out over the water actually, spotted this in the long grass........feeling a bit underwhelmed with my first gold sovereign

 

[silver]

But still Wally ,....... well specked ! :Y:

 

[Heatho]

Out for a family walk this afternoon, still looking out over the water actually, spotted this in the long grass........feeling a bit underwhelmed with my first gold sovereign
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1916/1502601572_img_0030.jpg

I reckon that might be rarer to detect than a real sovereign mate. :Y:

 

[Wally69]

Out for a family walk this afternoon, still looking out over the water actually, spotted this in the long grass........feeling a bit underwhelmed with my first gold sovereign
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1916/1502601572_img_0030.jpg

I reckon that might be rarer to detect than a real sovereign mate. :Y:

Yes, I suspect far more sovereigns were minted and lost.

Found out it is gold plated, so not far off the mark :Y: maybe next time

 

[golddiggerart]

Mate that's a beaut find... :Y:

 

[golddiggerart]

Yeah, you can see where it should have been hey !
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1502597725_screenshot_2017-08-13-14-14-21.jpg

Premium price for sure... :Y:

 

[Wally69]

Dragged the family out for a day trip and managed to come home with a mixed bag

 

[Ivo]

Nice merino toy? ya got there and was that little jar full of the yellow stuff

 

[Sandta]

Looks like you went to old McDonalds farm :lol:
Are those spinells ?

 

[Wally69]

Have heard stories of lost bottles of gold Ivo, just panned out the content but no cigar. 8.(

Glassy crystals embedded in the host lava rock Sandta, and a handful of surface finds that have weathered their way out. Thinking that makes them obsidian. Although not entirely sure, I would like to think they are black diamonds :lol:

 

[Heatho]

Ahhh, I thought it was black spinel, thought you might have been speccing at spinel gully again. :Y: