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Some finds for 2005

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Angela (Australia)

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Hello All,
I thought it would be nice to share with you some of my finds for 2005. As you can see, the Quattro is a damn good machine at it's job! All these finds were found in very trashy ground. Hope you find the pics interesting. I used All metal mode and an 7 1/2 inch coil.
Cheers Angela:)
 
Angela
Great finds from the old P40 Warhawk. That must be quite a story I'll have to ask a friend of mine about it. He's ate up with airplane knowledge no doubt that he will know something about the Warhawk.
Great finds in the case and some great pics.
But since we can't come you you will have to come to us with some more pics.I can see spent shells, horse shoes and buckle but the rest you will have to get some more close ups and give us some history.What are the coin and the blue turquoise rounds in the upper left? When you have the time take some close ups and write out some brief descriptions.
Curious minds what to know!
 
Those are real nice finds Angela. It is neat to be able to hold a part of history in your hand. Good luck and keep the pics coming.
 
Hi there Warriorwon and Nocanfind!
After your post, I realised that the cabinet is a bit congested! So, I took some close up photos of what's in it, with a bit of tidying up of course! Some the bullets down the bottom left are 1800's Henry Martins. We used to have two rifle ranges here, so you find a lot of them. The turquoise finds are glass tops of old Eno and Holbrooks soy sauce glass bottles. I've got a large tin full of different shapes and sizes. The other green round, top right hand is an old ink well. Next to it is a quack medicine bottle, Mrs Winslow Soothing Syrup. It was given to babies for stomach upsets. Problem is, with such a high alcohol content, it tended to kill the babies! True. The other green is an old whiskey bottle, label missing. I often did up things like these when detecting for other sounds. As I've mentioned in an earlier post (I think), I accidently found a bottle dump detecting for something else. What a fluke that was!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos!
Cheers Angela:):minelab:
 
Hi Angela. Love those cricket buckles, they're pretty hard to come by. They were most popular from 1840's to 1870's. Have attached photo of a couple I found last year at some old inn sites. They're usually pretty thin but the one on the bottom is thick and heavy. The top left is missing the middle plate but now I have the quattro I'll go back and have another look. Might get lucky.
Regards, Ken.
 
Angela
Nice pics that helped a lot. The treasures you find are not at all familiar to me. The buckles are outstanding, similar to our Civil War buckles I would guess.I have yet to find one but it must be a thrill.In the last pic next to the glass stoppers are they all marbles? The coins are of interest to me I will have to look them up now that I have the info. The detail in which the early engravers accomplished is remarkable.
 
Wow! Ken I love those buckles! They are in pretty good nick too. The bottom one is quite beautiful in design and pattern. Whereever you got those, I'd spend more time detecting there. It's quite possible you'll find a good amount of old coins and other relics at that site. I've gone back over and over again to some of my sites, and keep finding things. My round cricket buckle is also quite thin, and I'm not entirely sure what it's made of, it's kind of opulent in colour and seems to have had some gold gild over it. It's a strange find.
Hi Warriorwon, they are glass marbles from the old codd bottles. Kids used to break them open to get the marbles out. I've found dozens that were washed up after a good rain, walking in the hills. The black centre top is an internal screw top, and the other black is from a lammonts bottle. Used to have a rubber seal in the grove around it. The white marbles can either be made of clay or bone and handmade, that's why they're irregular in shape. The browm marble is made of some kind of agate? I think, not sure, can't remember the name, but found it in the neck of an insulator by chance.
Cheers Angela
 
Thanks for the history on the Warhawk. That sure makes it more interesting than just seeing a couple of shells in a picture. It really adds to the story, to hear the story. You just keep it up and keep sending those interesting pics and stories. :|:O:geek::|
 
Angela,
I am new to this forum and have been reading. First off, I like seeing other country finds - I have been collecting coins for a while and have some older Australian coins. I also saw your post on the town you live and hunt. I am jealous. You are fortunate. Looks like beautiful country. Also lots of history and a good variety of finds.

I live in the suburbs of a large US city - Cleveland, Ohio. We have a good deal of history but a lot of it has been "covered up" - you know a victim to development. We find plenty of silver coins but mostly 1900's stuff. It's the pre 1900 stuff that is the challenge.

Anyway, I'm curious as to the value of some of your coin finds. In your picture here what is the most valueable and how rare are some of these?

Thanks.

Bob(Mirage)
 
Hello Bob,
First of all, welcome to the forum! Also thankyou for your interest in my posts. It's nice to be able to share these finds with fellow detectorists! But I get as much pleasure looking at other posts too. I really enjoy the pics of other places posted. Brings us all that little bit closer! I'm interested as to what Australian coinage you've found, if you could post a pic? The most valuable coin in the pic above, is the 1911 threepence. In it's present condition, it's worth about $40.00 aussie currency. But what most of us aussies hope to find is the elusive soveriegn, or half sovereign. One guy in South aussie found a full sovereign worth $8000.00! But he detected for 25 years before he found it! I hope not to take that long! But I believe I have every chance of finding one of these gold coins here in the district.
I enjoy trying to build a profile of who might have lived on a particular site by the relics I find on that site. For example:
On one site, I detected a mason's button, dug up old whiskey bottles, clay pipes, and children's doll parts. From that I imagined he was a family man sitting on his veranda enjoying a whiskey, throwing the empty bottle over the edge of his veranda, (that's where I dug up these bottles), he was a freemason, had children, and the fellow enjoyed smoking his pipe.
At the moment I'm concentrating on a site about a km over the hill behind me on another hill. So far I've found heaps of mouth organ pieces, cricket badges, salvation army badges, parts of purses, coins, and parts of trinket or pill boxes. I'll be going back there this afternoon to detect. I've been raking the ground, because there's too much debris to run the coil over. So with this site: I imagined the guy was married, loved music, was active in our town as a salvo, his wife enjoyed nice things, hence the lovely purse parts and trinkets found, and the fellow seemed to enjoy cricket, which our town was well known for. And he must have been reasonably fit, living on this hill (if you could see it!) and he may have had a son who loved playing marbles, hence, all the glass marbles from the old codd bottles. Down the road I detected in the road leather bits of an old horse harness with studs still attached. So he may have owned a horse too. Most of these finds were no deeper than 4 to 8 inches, so the ground hasn't built up too much over time.
HH Cheers Angela:)
 
Nice contribution,Well done.
Nice to see all these old finds some of them a little memento from the immigrants of the old British Empire.Jerry.
 
Angela,
Here is almost my whole Australian coin collection. I actually have a few more coins but they are in the 60's to 80's. Also one 1943 penny not shown. I did not find these with my detector(I wish) but picked them up real cheap at a coin shop. Foreign coins are pretty cheap in the US. We have sold some on ebay but not a lot. One Indian coin we got for .15 we sold on ebay for $70. But I really just get world coins to collect. Anyway, do I have any gems??

Mirage
 
Hi Mirage,
I love your photo! The coins appears to be in very good condition. I looked them up in my "Renniks Australian coin & Banknote Values" book. Dependant on condition of course, but here is a guild:
In VG condition:
1925 sixpence-$5.00
1943 sixpence-$5.00
1944 shilling-$2.00
1920 penny-$3.00 to $4.00
1938 half penny-5o cents (These are only approx figures.) If you're interested, you may be able to purchase this book on ebay. I paid $30.00 for it. The other book that's been invaluable in dating my older coins are "Coins of England & The United Kingdom" Spink 2004 edition. Some aussie coins to look out for that's worth a bit in just GC are:
1923 George half penny-$1,200.00!
1930 George penny-$18,000.00!
1946 George penny-$45.00
1922 threepence-$3,250.00!
1910 florin-$25.00
One 1930 penny in Excellent condition just sold in aussie a few weeks ago went for $600,000.000! Only about six are known to have survived!
Angela
 
Angela, there is also a very good web site called Value of Coins of The UK by Tony Clayton. Has a lot of information and pictures of early English coins and I have found it handy to look up my English finds.
Ken.
 
Thanks Ken,
I didn't know about this site. Just had a look at it. It's excellent. Saved it into my favorites. I love the pictures of the old pennies and farthings. Found a couple of farthings, didn't know much about them and the ones I detected are not in very good condition. One is missing an edge on it, the other is all bent up. The pictures on them are barley discernable. And they appear to be made of copper.
Regards Angela
 
Thanks for the link Ken. Fascinating stuff. Now I have to go home and check my UK coins. I know one that I have is a beutiful BU toned Elizabeth shilling around 1900. I think this site said it was worth about $40. Much to pretty to sell! :)

So I take it you guys find UK coins...what percentage would you say that is? Here in the states I find about 1 out of 100 to be foreign. Most of these being Canadian.

Mirage
 
Hello Mirage,
Prior to the early 1900's Australia used British currency, so you could find a good percentage of these older coins here. But Aussie did mint the half and full gold sovereign in the 1800's, and to find one of those here is a real bonus in detecting. As for later British coins, perhaps in the more touristy areas you may find something there. I personally haven't found any later UK coins here.
Angela
 
Hello,
I just want to make a couple of corrections: The 1922 Threepence in VG (the lowest grade shown for these) is $4.00. The $3,250.00 value mentioned is for the 1922-over-21 variety (again in VG).
Also, remember, these values are listed in Australian dollars, not US dollars.
A couple of other good ones to look out for are the 1925 Penny (VG$60, F$110), the 1933 Shilling (VG$80, F$145) and the 1932 Florin (VG$95, F$195).
Happy hunting!
Toby
 
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