Birdseed
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Silver and Gold on a Tasmanian beach.
Had a couple of hours to spare so I packed the wife, her knitting and the Sov GT into the car and headed to a little strip of sandy beach I've been thinking about for a year or so. Only about 40 to 50 meters long. Almost immediately picked up my first coin, then twenty more in quick order plus my first rings.
Total haul included 5 silver coins (top left in photo), 2 nine ct. gold rings ( both broken) plus assorted decimal coins all in bad condition.
The silver threepences and sixpences date 1921 through to 1944 and other pre-decimal as late as 1960
The large coin is a 1944 penny.
The larger ring has had the shank purposely cut off, and is engraved RLS. Did Robert Louis Stevenson ever visit Tasmania???
The other ring has parted at the back of the shank, looks like the gold soldering has failed, also a pretty little ruby.
Still about 2/3rds of this little beach to look at.
Interesting to note that apart from the penny, all coins were small and deep. I feel that this beach has been detected before and these finds were too small or deep. Top marks for the Sovereign GT
I am becoming confident with the Sov now and beginning to understand its language.
Will post some more photo when I have a chance to clean things up a bit
Cheers
Pete
Had a couple of hours to spare so I packed the wife, her knitting and the Sov GT into the car and headed to a little strip of sandy beach I've been thinking about for a year or so. Only about 40 to 50 meters long. Almost immediately picked up my first coin, then twenty more in quick order plus my first rings.
Total haul included 5 silver coins (top left in photo), 2 nine ct. gold rings ( both broken) plus assorted decimal coins all in bad condition.
The silver threepences and sixpences date 1921 through to 1944 and other pre-decimal as late as 1960
The large coin is a 1944 penny.
The larger ring has had the shank purposely cut off, and is engraved RLS. Did Robert Louis Stevenson ever visit Tasmania???
The other ring has parted at the back of the shank, looks like the gold soldering has failed, also a pretty little ruby.
Still about 2/3rds of this little beach to look at.
Interesting to note that apart from the penny, all coins were small and deep. I feel that this beach has been detected before and these finds were too small or deep. Top marks for the Sovereign GT
I am becoming confident with the Sov now and beginning to understand its language.
Will post some more photo when I have a chance to clean things up a bit
Cheers
Pete