Whats the earliest coin in your area?

[Tassie Daz]

My area is the Copper Triangle of South Australia and today I pulled my earliest coin. I decided to go to Moonta where Copper was coming out of the ground around the 1860's so you'd expect to see coins from the era. Well I didn't expose a coin as early as that, but today I found my earliest coin - a Britainia Penny from 1907. Its not in really good nick - but what amazed me was that it was in a spot where hundreds of people have walked over it over all this time and it was only 2" down. How could it not have been kicked out of the ground at some stage. Anyway today it saw the light of day. Fantastic. [I was going to take a pick but its almost unidentifiable]
Anyway I still want to Jag a sov, or a crown, or a cartwheel penny. Wish me luck.

 

[Ramjet]

My oldest is an 1854 threepence. It was also very shallow. Less than 2 inches. It was very close to a small tree and pretty beat up. My guess is that it was dug up during tree planting.

 

[Muttering]

as reported earlier

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4638

 

[Ramjet]

A young forum member recently found a Chinese coin made between 1739 and 1795 in the Newcastle area.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=149224#p149224

 

[the duck]

1826 half stuiver for me

 

[Wally69]

a coin minted during the Ch'ien Lung dynasty, minted in Manchu Yuwan Provence by the Board of Public Works between 1736 and 1795

 

[rocketaroo]

1863 penny

 

[deepblue]

1843 Groat 4 pence and 1797 Cartwheel penny, numerous Chinese coins.

 

[Goldpick]

1807 KG3 half penny from Adelaide south eastern suburbs, interesting that it pre-dates the settlement of SA.

 

[StirFX]

1942 three-pence I believe on the surface. Found about 5 coins on the surface there. There was an old pickers quarter there.

 

[Heatho]

Old Chinese coin, not sure when it was minted, I can't find any info on it.

 

[Cheese]

The Cartwheel Coin I had found must be my oldest coin find.
So Im in the CartWheel club, membership = 1 CartWheel.

 

[campaspe]

1865....100 years before I were born.

 

[redrocket]

1907 six pence found with my x70 in wollongong area

 

[matchy]

1806 George III penny in Maitland NSW

 

[jamie]

197? 20c coin :/

 

[Coachie]

George the 3rd penny very badly worn, found at Graytown.

 

[clegy]

1908 Threepence on the Yeppoon beach, I was just about to walk off the beach still had machine on and it chirped.
I kicked about an inch of sand out of the way and there it was.

Probably stood on it 30 times in the past LOL

 

[Billy]

Posted it before somewhere on the forum,

An 1835 sixpence:

Walking back to the ute one afternoon and not really being thorough with my detecting.

Thought it was a 5c piece till I rubbed the dirt off it.

Bet it would have a story to tell!!

Cheers,

Billy.

 

[Still Looking]

I found a 1817 shilling the other day in the same area that I found a 1861 halfpenny about 25 years ago....it is worn a fair bit on the reverse side. It was sitting just under the surface layer of dirt...got it with the xterra 305