Researching great areas for Coin Hunting in Australia

It’s a great idea to try to locate a great coin hunting area, as you can get finds within an hour if your research (or source) was good.

Good places to search are old:

Schools,
Parks
Train stations
Fairgrounds,
Race tracks, horses or dogs
Soccer / football fields,
Music festival camping grounds
Swimming holes.
Hotels

They all are crowd-based coin aggregators! Festivals atmosphere with money changing hands, meaning that over time people will lose them. Your job is to find these coin rich areas and recover them.

Here’s an example below from a day’s searching in Victoria:

To make your efforts worthwhile you need to find a way to display your coins and other finds – and transport them easily, whether to a dealer for sale, or to a meet with other hobbyists / detectorists.

1. Buy Circular Discs for transportable of your favourite pieces

We recommend the discs above as a perfect way to present your cleaned coins and stop prying fingers from touching them.

You will probably get a better price from a dealer as they can see you have made an effort to clean and present them well.

These collection cases are a bargain for 10 for A$5. The come with washers to hold your coin in place and stop them rattling.

2. Use wooden boxes to present smaller coins and finds

These boxes store 50 coins and come with circular washes to hold your coin in place and stop it rattling around.

Being able to present your collection and store it neatly in a box is a joy. These cost A$20 to store 50 coins.

If you are looking for other boxes with compartments for different shaped items, we recommend fishing tackle boxes.

Here is an army style box for A$35.

Resources to help you plan your treasure hunts.

Dick Stout in his book, “Where to Find Treasure!!” talks about the Big Four (What, Where, When, How Long)

Consider:

What – What is the event? Does it generate a lot of coins on the ground in certain areas or statistically spread out over the entire region?
Where – Location is where? Is that area still accessible? Private or public land?
When – What era of the past did this event occur? Is it pre 1964? Pre 1933? What possible goodies might be on location?
How Long – How long was the event held there? Was it 40 or 4 years? Clearly, you want to give higher priority to long term areas.

The best way is to locate a map showing buildings and site boundaries and then try to match with satellite maps.

Alternatively, ask someone who may have visited the events about physical markers on the ground, look for natural or man-made remains of buildings that will help.

How can you clean your coins? Andre’s wooden pencils produce amazing results!

Watch this detailed 5 min cleaning session & review from Stealth Diggers: https://youtu.be/cMnnLJgTJ9k

You can find the set of crayons on ebay here

Looking to buy a metal detector for coins or treasure hunting?

Check out the fantastic detectors under $500 on Catch