Hi all,
I am a new member, I collect Australian predecs and some bullion issues (member of silver stackers). I started collecting years ago when I took up metal detecting and started to find my first silvers, since then I have started to expand my collection. I look forward to talking coins with you all and hopefully learning a bit as well.
Cheers
Brad
hello , welcome Brad :D
Hi Brad,
Welcome to ACF.
Great to have you here.
Hello and welcome.
To atart the ball rolling, what are your most recent purchases?
Welcome from coin collector and ex metal detectorist. What was your first find with a detector?
Thanks all for the welcome.
First find, that was a long time ago, would have been a two cent or something simlar, first predec was a toasted penny, I was proud of that one. First silver was a threepence 1942. Since then I find a few silvers most times I go out. Its all about the thrill and that potential next signal...
Welcome Brad, glad you made it across from SS.
Hi Brad. I'm PP or PPH whatever people want to call me, I am markn's better half :) Welcome to the forum.
bjacoins: My first coin was a halfpenny. Since then I have detected over/around 28,000 coins and ended up with a mass of pre decimal silver and I have thrown at six ice cream containers of halfpennies and pennies onto/into the now defunct Sunshine tip.
Have you found any nuggets?
Hi PP, is it you or Mark on Silver stackers?
Goldseeker - i also have the a bucket of toasted 1d and halfs, was actually thinking of getting some delft clay and casting them into something. I still prefer to dig them then the pockets of ones and twos...
Found a few nuggets when I lived in Vic with a 4500, I am now in SE QLD so I dont get a chance for gold.
Yet to find a Sov, got a Very worn Gothic Florin last week though.
Hi Brad, welcome and hope you enjoy mate :good:
I have thrown at six ice cream containers of halfpennies and pennies onto/into the now defunct Sunshine tip
:kez_15: You did what GS
:yeah_what_she_said:
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='43686' dateline='1394618602':yeah_what_she_said:
Hi Brad, and welcome.
You will learn that Goldy can be a bit of a worry sometimes....
WHY ON EARTH would you ever throw
any coins away? At the tip, no less???????
..and me,Welcome.
Thanks all
:welcome: Brad. I think there might be gold up around Gympie area if that's close handy at all.
Hi Brad! :welcome: to the Forum. :yahoo:
Welcome to the group Brad.
Enjoy yourself and your hobby here.
:yahoo:
:welcome: to the "Fun House".!!
Quote from: 'bjacoins' pid='43679' dateline='1394617709'Hi PP, is it you or Mark on Silver stackers?
It's me. I'm using the hallowed PP name over there so I have to be polite and behave myself.
I threw the coins out as I was not a coin collector at the time and there were no 1930 pennies or 1923 halfpennies. This was done when I was relocated from Melboure to Sydney way way back in 1981. Couldn't take them with so tossed them.
Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='43750' dateline='1394696489'Couldn't take them with so tossed them.
*cry* :dodgy:
Wish I was detecting in 1981, bet there were lots of virgin sites back then.
they were probably found at the tip and have been recycled through the coin world a hundred times over
remember those old blokes who used to work at the tips going through the rubbish
for sure they were found and it helped some old codger sell them off to the scrap metal guys and at the end of the day, have himself a free beer
copper always has a bullion value and we often sell our rubbish bronze locally per kilo bullion $'s
the same sort of coins for sure show up on eBay as a deceased estate hoard and go for heaps of $$$$
I have too much integrity to do that rip off sell, so the scrap metal guys suit us fine
Talking about copper coins. Every year on ANZAC Day in Melbourne, there is a elderly gent, dressed in his bus/tram conductor uniform and giving away pennies to all he sees.
Most of the penny coins I find are only good for a scrap bucket, I have found the odd nice one but as soon as they get wet and a dose of fertilizer verdigris sets in. Queen Vic penny's on the other hand tend to come out of the ground with a lovely green patina, must be the different metal mixes between the mints.
copper corrodes
maybe gold holds up better if there is a lot of purity in the metal ?
Gold comes out of the ground the same as it went in, it does not react at all. Silver can tarnish and also become encrusted with horn silver. Bronze and Copper, it really depends what they are alloyed with and what the ground conditions are