Final silver for 06

[John (Australia)]

Has anyone had one of those times when you found a coin that must have been waiting for you?
Most Sunday mornings a friend and I detect for an hour or two at our local Show Ground. Last Sunday just before I got to where I was going to cease detecting I got a signal that I assumed was a 1 or 2 cent. It wasn't at the depth I expected so kept digging and out popped a nice florin dated 1957, the year I was born. Always a good day when you dig a coin from your birth year I reckon. This will in all likelyhood be my last silver find for 06 so I am quite satisfied with it. I had hit a few decimal coins with my screw driver during the morning but the florin came out of the ground unscathed luckily, but as I wasn't taking a lot of care digging through the hard ground this was more luck than skill.
John

 

[beachguy777]

Great looking coin John. Did you say it was silver? It looks brass or copper or gold to me? Not sure, what I'm asking here?

 

[John (Australia)]

hello Beachguy, Maybe I should have taken a photo without the flash. I class the Australian pre decimal threepence, sixpence, shilling and Florin as silver, this may or may not be correct but the actual silver content of the pre 1946 coins is 92.5%, from 1946 onwards they are only 50% silver, 40% copper 5% zinc and 5% nickel. So your comment about not looking like a pure silver coin is fair enough.
John

 

[B.RATNY]

Wow thats a great looking coin, congrats.
HH Butch NY

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That's a great photo of a great coin John. I look forward to the day I find my first florin.
Mick Evans.

 

[beachguy777]

So maybe they coated a silver coin with some gold or brass? Very interestring, because I can see where the Quatro would read the silver content, mainly, not the coating, necessarily. Interesting. Thanks.

 

[Golden]

It's really a beautiful coin John, and I love how it turned out as a close up shot too. You've got a great camera there. The camera that I normally use died the other week, and I thought "oh no!". But Garry came to the rescue and bought me another, better one! Quite unexpected.