A big bit of silver in the goldfields

All,

Just thought I'd share the best Gothic Florin I've found with you. Easily my favourite coin to find. They are pretty rare in the goldfields, usually the big silvers are either half crowns or shillings.  Also found a nice set of gold weights (1, 2 & 4 ou Troy).

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Very nicely done GemQ.

That is a beautiful coin gemq, congrats!

GG

Oh yes! That's the way to do it. You should be working for the CSI.

Nice collection well done

Well done GemQ, it is a beautiful well preserved coin. I don't know much about old gold scale weights but the depressions seem strange....... could your finds actually be moulds for making ingots? cheers tributer

The Gothic is outstanding.

Keep flogging it .... There might be a Sovereign .....

Tributer wrote: Well done GemQ, it is a beautiful well preserved coin.  I don't know much about old gold scale weights but the depressions seem strange....... could your finds actually be moulds for making ingots? cheers tributer

Good call Tributer, I was wondering the same thing, I guess the best test would be to weigh them and see if the mark corresponds to the weight,   though I wonder if the writing would be in reverse order for a correct transfer?

Wayne.

Nice find,great looking coin GemQ Around what year / years does this coin date from ?

Eureka Dreams

The Gothic Florin is an early one 1855

GemQ wrote:The Gothic Florin is an early one 1855

Thanks for that info..

I have found quite a few English silver and copper coins but only the one copper token..The penny token i found was struck in Birmingham England around 1859 for Robert Parker / Ironmonger of Moorabool Street Geelong..I found it in an old timers dig hole in Linton  The goldrush was well underway in 1855 here in Victoria and the Eureka Stockade ( 03/12/1854 ) was still sending shockwaves through the prospecting community.

cheers
Eureka Dreams

Nice silver coin, nice settling weights for a gold scale. Used to have a nice vintage scale with brass weights which were stamped in dwt. all the weights would fit into each other....pretty cool. Nice job !

Digginerup wrote:

Tributer wrote: Well done GemQ, it is a beautiful well preserved coin.  I don't know much about old gold scale weights but the depressions seem strange....... could your finds actually be moulds for making ingots? cheers tributer

Good call Tributer, I was wondering the same thing, I guess the best test would be to weigh them and see if the mark corresponds to the weight,   though I wonder if the writing would be in reverse order for a correct transfer?

Wayne.

Hi Wayne and Duck.
The depressions in the top were used so the different sized weights could be put inside each other.....a bit like a Babooska Doll if you like so you could keep putting weights in until it balanced with whatever was being weighed on the other side.
It also helped so they all packed away neatly.
Cheers
Curley