The find of a life time. Big statement?
Perhaps not. Be the judge. I want your feedback.
On Thursday I went under water detecting with my detecting buddy.
I was hopping for an other Gold ring. After all I had a good string of luck the last two hunts on the beach.
We are about half an hour in to the search, neck deep in the water.
My fried call me over; he was 5-6 meters away of me. His voice sounds scratchy his face didn’t look good. He was shaking.
-Do you know what this is?? Asked and show me a shiny disk on his hand.
Of course I new. I spend most of my spare time looking through coin books. It was a GOLD SOLIDUS.
Perhaps for you guys in Europe or Asia Minor it’s not unusual to find this type of a gold coin.
But a Gold Solidus, in Melbourne, Australia in the water in the bay? Hello? How did it come here? Long bow but does the coin changes the history of Australia’s discovery as we know it?
At the same spot we also found a lot of brash nails. A ship wreck perhaps? Am i dreaming?. Please someone wake me up.
I finish the day with two rings one silver and one gold.
We have not dated the coin yet. I need to go through the coin books and identify it. Perhaps someone in the forum will know.
I photographed a ruler next to the nails showing there size. Any ideas about them?
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