Wiley's coin and relic by-products from 40 years of gold prospecting.

[wiley coyote]

coles

Coles medallion. Federation of the World. Issued by Coles Book Arcade. Melbourne. Orginally gilt plated. It still has some gilt on the bottom of the top photo. wiley

 

[Sandta]

That looks pretty cool :Y:

 

[silver]

Nice one wiley..... did ya find much more at all mate ?...... 40 yrs lol

 

[wiley coyote]

G'day silver. Yes, have found heaps. I've got jars etc, every where. Mostly found in the G.T. while prospecting. The oldest is a 1757 Hamburg schilling, I found at Havelock. I'll post photos of the interesting ones as they turn up. wiley.

 

[wiley coyote]

Medallion. Centenary of Sunday Schools. Victoria. June 1880. Robert Raikes.

 

[wiley coyote]

Here's a button/ medallion I found near Bendigo. So I'll use a bit of poetic licence, and a lot of imagination here. Here's my take on it. The Chinese name for Bendigo was, Dai Gum San, which means, Big Gold Mountain. Also, Bendigo's huge Chinese dragon is named, Dai Gum Loong, which means, Big Gold Dragon. Does anyone know the story/history on this item. It's 40mm across and looks very old. wiley.

 

[Adrian ss]

Might be Japanese. Looks like Mnt Fujiyarma in the back ground.
Any Prisoner of war camps near where it was found?
Might be worth some reasonable money to a collector.

 

[Eldorado]

That medallion is a great find.Can we get a photo of the back of the dragon medallion?

 

[wiley coyote]

Eldorado. The medallion was all mangled and had no back on it. I had to carefully reshape it back to roughly its original shape with some gentle panel beating with a small hammer, as it's very fragile with a few cracks in it. Then I put fibre glass in the back to strengthen it. wiley.

 

[wiley coyote]

Adrian. No prisoner of war camps nearby. Found near Bendigo. wiley

 

[wiley coyote]

Here is a 1790 half guinea "spade" token.

According to Google, this is a copy of the gold half guinea coin. It was used as a gaming token. It's called a spade due to the shape of the shield. 25mm diameter. It has obviously been worn as an ornament on a fob watch chain. wiley.

 

[silver]

And lost pretty quickly in due course I'd recon.... notice there is no real chain wear to the top of the hole, but maybe a slight bend as a short left handed theif made a quick snatch for it... only to have it fling away into the long grass in the dark, lost forever to them both.
So, maybe there is the open end loop from a fob chain not too far from where you found that one wiley.

 

[wiley coyote]

Hi Silver. Maybe the dopey thief snatched it thinking it was a real gold half guinea, then threw it away when he found it wasn't. Didn't some idiot do that at the Melbourne museum with a copy of a huge nugget they had on display in a window. I think it may have been the Hand of Faith. Smashed the window, took off with the copy, then dropped it not far away when, maybe, he thought it was a bit lighter than a gold nugget should be. DOH! wiley.

 

[wiley coyote]

Silver. Maybe it's one of these. wiley

 

[wiley coyote]

Silver. Maybe this was on the chain too.

 

[silver]

It's all good lookin stuff Wiley erfect:

 

[wiley coyote]

Does anyone know what this was used for? wiley

 

[Sandta]

Looks like a stamp/stamper to me
Place the letter stamps in the slot and hold in place with the screw

 

[wiley coyote]

This is about 20mm across, brass, with a square shaft on the bottom. Some one said it may be a the knob off the lid of an plywood box that tea was sold in back in the old days. Does anyone have any ideas what it could be off? wiley.

 

[Sandta]

Handsaw maybe