Awsome find for me!

[thommo59]

I've been doing a little park digging since it's winter here and the beaches have gone quiet. Always find the usual, couple coins, 8 guzzillion ring pulls, a few odds and sods but yesterday, my best park find ever.

No it's not gold or a ring, it's a small coin, an 1835 sixpence actually.

So what I hear you say, that's not very old.

Well consider this, *here in Australia, it was only settled in 1788
*the first bank in the country opened in 1822
*Melbourne did not even exist.
*Australia was actually 'New Holland" until the early 1800's
*The entire population was less than 1.5 million in 1835

So to me this is cool, I would love to know it's history.

 

[diggyboy]

That still beats my oldest coin by 65 years! Thats a great find, congrats!

 

[jewelerguy]

So what I hear you say, that's not very old.

I never said that. I think it's an awesome and very old find

 

[PlzBSeated]

1835 makes my day...any day!

PBS

 

[dirtlooter]

totally awesome! congrats and pretty darn old in my book! I would love to find one myself

 

[Ahab8]

That's a great piece of your history! Congrats. Age is relative to where you are and it prob doesn't get much older in your case. Very cool indeed

 

[DigginDownUnder]

Very nice! My oldest coin is a 1866 shilling.
I did find a 1790's half penny token, that is my oldest find here in Aus.

 

[thommo59]

Up until the weekend, coins didn't interest me a great deal but now they do. I just like the fact that this has possibly lived under the field for 180years and what must have happened above ground over all of these years

 

[DigginDownUnder]

Coins didn't interest me much at first either, but now I love finding them, especially the old silver ones.

I'm slowly building my own cache of silver

 

[CRUSADER]

'I would love to know it's history'.

Wouldn't we all like to know that about most of our finds, but at least with coins we have 1 clue.....the amount of 'wear' on the coin. Look closely & you can start to judge how many years it was in circulation & how many thousands of hands it must have gone through. So your 1835 dated coin would have taken how many years to get to Australia? Lets guess 10 years or more based on its wear (you judge, hard to tell in photo & then adjust the figures) & probable journey from the mint across the sea on a boat to you. So that takes you until at least 1845 until it's likely loss. Then you need to discount the probability that someone lost it from their collection very recently & at which point the 'best guess' lose date could be circa 1850ish. Does this then fit in with the local history of that area? If so we have a good match.

Anyways, Will IV sixpences are over 100 times rarer to find by me than a Medieval Hammered, so a pretty scarce coin to go over - congrats on a good recovery.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

'I would love to know it's history'.

Wouldn't we all like to know that about most of our finds,
Anyways, Will IV sixpences are over 100 times rarer to find by me than a Medieval Hammered, so a pretty scarce coin to go over - congrats on a good recovery.

That's an interesting bit of info. I got an 1834 couple years back, and remember you commenting, Good find in nice condition.

So yeah I think a good find no matter where one lives.

 

[voodoo]

Nice!

 

[thommo59]

Good info mate and it came form your mother land too!

I'm struggling to find history for this area but so far it appears to have been a sporting venue forever, also this coin was approx 30 metres from a creek that was very active for transport in the early days and on the other side of the creek was a Hotel.

'I would love to know it's history'.

Wouldn't we all like to know that about most of our finds, but at least with coins we have 1 clue.....the amount of 'wear' on the coin. Look closely & you can start to judge how many years it was in circulation & how many thousands of hands it must have gone through. So your 1835 dated coin would have taken how many years to get to Australia? Lets guess 10 years or more based on its wear (you judge, hard to tell in photo & then adjust the figures) & probable journey from the mint across the sea on a boat to you. So that takes you until at least 1845 until it's likely loss. Then you need to discount the probability that someone lost it from their collection very recently & at which point the 'best guess' lose date could be circa 1850ish. Does this then fit in with the local history of that area? If so we have a good match.

Anyways, Will IV sixpences are over 100 times rarer to find by me than a Medieval Hammered, so a pretty scarce coin to go over - congrats on a good recovery.

 

[rodarian]

I'd say it's pretty old and extremely cool!

 

[46Wheat]

Nice digs and thanks for those pics

 

[The Swed Hunther]

You shall never excuse Your find, the find is in majority based on what it is for you. Its a lovely find and The best thing is when you give us the history about it!

Good presentation and a god find,Nuff said

Happy hunting!

 

[tinpan]

'I would love to know it's history'.

Wouldn't we all like to know that about most of our finds, but at least with coins we have 1 clue.....the amount of 'wear' on the coin. Look closely & you can start to judge how many years it was in circulation & how many thousands of hands it must have gone through. So your 1835 dated coin would have taken how many years to get to Australia? Lets guess 10 years or more based on its wear (you judge, hard to tell in photo & then adjust the figures) & probable journey from the mint across the sea on a boat to you. So that takes you until at least 1845 until it's likely loss. Then you need to discount the probability that someone lost it from their collection very recently & at which point the 'best guess' lose date could be circa 1850ish. Does this then fit in with the local history of that area? If so we have a good match.

Anyways, Will IV sixpences are over 100 times rarer to find by me than a Medieval Hammered, so a pretty scarce coin to go over - congrats on a good recovery.

Hi Coin shortages occurred twice in Australian history between 1801 till the great re coinage 24 government proclamation list were granted on dis used coins . The second was during the gold rushes where silver coins like threepence sixpences shillings and half- crowns and crowns were of same content of silver and size disregard which king or queen or age where used . Not an everyday find but still common. Nice find

tinpan

 

[Jarl]

Congrats!

 

[park pirate]

That is an awesome coin find..congrats..