What Are Your Best Finds?

[roy cobb]

I just love pulling old coins out the older the better

 

[Wrecka67]

Found this old Gunpowder flask about a month ago

 

[Smoky bandit]

Found this old Gunpowder flask about a month ago
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11086/1552942179_capture.jpg

It came up good too :Y:

 

[Guessologist]

I just love pulling old coins out the older the better

This for sure ^^^^. However my "best" find for me personally is still this 1854 penny from an old pub site, and the value is all sentimental. It's not the oldest by a long shot, nor the best preserved, but it's the first of the big early copper pennies I found. I'd picked up a couple of the later bronze Britannia pennies out at our farm before, but I wasn't even aware that there were older, bigger ones in use in Australia at that point! It was also the first coin I found by researching and planning a trip. It's also got an awesome flecked patina that I've never quite seen the same on any other of my finds:

 

[Wrecka67]

Found this old Gunpowder flask about a month ago
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11086/1552942179_capture.jpg

It came up good too :Y:

Light clean with a wire brush on the dremel and a coat of Renaissance wax did the job