Hi - New member

Unicorn · March 12, 2014, 09:36:08 PM

:welcome: Brad. I think there might be gold up around Gympie area if that's close handy at all.

Nevol · March 12, 2014, 10:10:58 PM

Hi Brad! :welcome: to the Forum. :yahoo:

humpybong · March 12, 2014, 10:11:29 PM

Welcome to the group Brad.

Enjoy yourself and your hobby here.

:yahoo:

Robster · March 13, 2014, 12:00:58 AM

:welcome: to the "Fun House".!!

markn · March 13, 2014, 07:27:53 AM

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.

Goldseeker · March 13, 2014, 06:11:29 PM

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.

Fulvio · March 13, 2014, 06:52:43 PM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='43750' dateline='1394696489'Couldn't take them with so tossed them.

*cry* :dodgy:

bjacoins · March 13, 2014, 07:55:03 PM

Wish I was detecting in 1981, bet there were lots of virgin sites back then.

robbiegal · March 13, 2014, 07:57:21 PM

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

Goldseeker · March 13, 2014, 09:50:12 PM

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.

bjacoins · March 13, 2014, 10:25:01 PM

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.

robbiegal · March 14, 2014, 04:08:44 PM

copper corrodes
maybe gold holds up better if there is a lot of purity in the metal ?

bjacoins · March 14, 2014, 05:40:55 PM

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