WOW. Find of a lifetime.
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Bloody Brilliant! Well done Bev!! :Y: 
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That is a shallow target, and that tree in the background looks familiar. I reckon I walked over that screaming signal a few times and ignored it thinking it was junk.
Nice and shiny coins too.
Well done Bev!
Nice and shiny coins too.
Well done Bev!
How could you not notice the weight missing from your pouch.
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Would love to know the story of how they ended up in the dirt.
Very interesting.
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Very interesting.
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Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remarkably clean coins for fresh out of the ground. I wonder if they had been cleaned up a bit before the pic was taken?
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DrDuck said:
gold doesn't tarnish
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Looks like it was found right on the edge of a track. Maybe dropped from a government escort back in the day? Can't imagine stopping for a poo and not hearing 14 gold sovereigns hitting the ground. Maybe the buried stash from some long dead associate of Capt Melville or the like? I guess we'll never know for sure, but an absolute stoater of a find!
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Of course, but the dirt and mud from long burial sticks to gold.
Imagine the poor bloke when he realised he'd lost that!
Back in the early 1980's, a prospector found a dozen sovereigns together in one hole somewhere in Amherst - I think there was an article in the old Gem & Treasure magazine about the find. I wonder if it was anywhere near this latest cache.
My thought is they may have been buried... stashed for retrieval at a later date?
As for being clean, maybe they were in a stack? The outer 2 coins would have dirt and the inner ones would be fairly clean?
Pure speculation.
As for being clean, maybe they were in a stack? The outer 2 coins would have dirt and the inner ones would be fairly clean?
Pure speculation.
I'm still a bit sceptical on this one.
Like I said earlier, very shallow and very clean.
Good luck to her and I hope she finds the rest of the stash nearby.
Like I said earlier, very shallow and very clean.
Good luck to her and I hope she finds the rest of the stash nearby.
Flute said:
1842 to 1857 according to the Daily Mail article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...RTEEN-extremely-valuable-sovereign-coins.html
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They did not state if they were found wrapped up in anything or in a tin or container. That could explain why they are so clean ,too.
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