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Category: Latest Discoveries

Elite

Help from a friend got the results

After almost two years and nothing found, I realised I was high tone deaf and that my settings were too high. After a friend took me out to her patch, set me up and sent me out with the settings changed to suit, I found my first bit: 73g with a

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Elite

A very lucky find in a well walked area

After searching for gold on some private property for several hours for no result, I thought I would go to a well worked area on common land that I’ve always had a feeling would hold a decent sized nugget. This area had given up many small nuggets up to 3g

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Viking Treasure on an Autumn day
Coin & Treasure

Viking Treasure on an Autumn day

A wonderful autumn day in the field yielded some amazing finds: an Odin mask pendant in silver, gold and niello; a Viking-age trefoil brooch, and a piece of payment gold dated to 850 AD. In addition, a medieval bird brooch, and a vessel (rocket ship) to bring me to Valhalla (the

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Cameronians Scottish Rifles Badge
Coin & Treasure

A Historical Find

It was Christmas Eve and I had only recently fitted the Coiltek 10×5” to my CTX. I was doing a solo hunt. I was actually wading in shallow water on a known farm and WWII campsite, which is mostly submerged by local dam waters. It was early in the hunt

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A Feel-Good Find
Coin & Treasure

A Feel-Good Find

I received a call off a friend’s wife who had lost her wedding ring and chain out in a large paddock. They spent several days looking for it and had all but conceded she would never see it again. So I rocked up with the trusty 4500 with the 14″

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Coin & Treasure

Warwick shows me a little colour

Slowly going back to all my old successful spots with this Coil and picking up what I could not before. On this trip I had a mate join me with his Equinox, some quick training, and tips then Boom. His found his very first piece of gold. 15 minutes later

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Coin & Treasure

1780 Spanish Coin Find

I was hunting with my son Nick as we always go together on weekends. We were in a Park I have been hunting for over 50 years. We had been there for about 3 hours and were about to head out for the day.

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Coin & Treasure

$10,500 Ring Find!

Diamond ring was just found recently in chest deep saltwater with the Coiltek Nox 15 inch round coil. I had been out wading for an hour or so with little results, but then a nice sounding target low tone came through my headphones.

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Coin & Treasure

1919 Peace Medal Find!

Most places in Canberra have been heavily detected over the years. This was my first outing with the 14×9″ NOX coil. As we were driving to the next spot, we drove past a small park at the end of a road divide.

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