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Hello everyone! I think today I may have found my first gold piece of jewellery on the beach! I need a bit of help though in determining if it is real gold or if it is some other kind of metal. It's a bit beaten up and scratched. I can't see any marking on it saying how many karats or...

Hey guys, I just found this 1942 Half Penny in my backyard. It was literally on the surface eroding out of the dirt. I was walking along and saw a round coin shaped thing in the dirt, picked it up and sure enough it was a 1942 Half Penny. No metal detector required :D The front is mostly...

Hey guys, Well I got my Garrett Ace 250 metal detector a few weeks ago, and have so far only used it a little bit on the beach. My main hunting ground has been my front lawn actually, and out of the 35 coins pictured below that I have found with my detector, 33 of them came from my front lawn...

Hi everyone, I'm about to receive my Garrett Ace 250 in the mail soon and I can't wait to take it for a swing but I have a question. What are the laws regarding metal detecting in Sydney, or NSW for that matter? I am new to this hobby so would like a bit of info that will stop me from doing...

Hey guys, thankyou to everyone for posting pictures of their amazing finds or collection pieces. I thought i'd reciprocate and post pictures of some of my better fossil specimens. My collection of fossils is far too large to post pics of everything but these are some of my favourites and I think...

Hello everyone, What can I say? I'm a fossil-mad 17 year guy who just loves to get out in the field and search for treasures from the distant past. I have been a walking dinosaur and animal encyclopedia since age 3 and intend to go to university next year to study Paleontology and hopefully get...