hey i got gold fever and you wouldn't believe it
i'm not chasing gold and i don't want to leave it this gold detector has got me on the run
all around australia it's got me roaming i find a piece to do that today folks i'm the coffee bush
kid and today the rolls have reversed a little bit and this isn't gold digger dave beside me this is
goldie's digging dave welcome to the dark side my young apprentice thank you very much coffee bush
uh this will be a little bit different i've done a little bit of corn and relic hunting before um
always ping the one and two dollar coins i think there might be a one or two dollar coin
in here and that's the program i'm going to start out with uh when we start our hunt here
now dave i reckon we should also tell folks where we are okay today we're at the uh existing uh
bendigo alone tennis association club it's actually been pulled down now as part of the
bendigo strategic plan and they're looking to do something different with it they've got new
tennis courts out near the uh lake weroona now and we're figuring that just from some of the uh
work around here some of the old brick work uh and the fact of where it is right in the center of uh
the great city of bendigo there should be some coins and relics for us to take home and i'm
hopeful i'll have a bag of goldies by the end of this session now it's also where you think
around the circa 1900s for here so there should be a chance of pre-decimals as well as dave's goldies
there could be a chance of jewelry as well but as with detecting you just never know what's in the
ground that's it so i'll use a very restrictive program to start out coffee bush kid's going to
use a wider program and we're hoping to be pulling relics out of the ground like you haven't seen
before well while we're here i think we've both got different game plans of what we're going to
do because there's going to be ring pulls but also our coins maybe a couple of old relics
i'm going to be using my six inch coil just so that i can get in amongst all the rubbish
dave what size coil are you going to use i'm going to use the 11 uh so that's the
standard coil that comes with the equinox 800 and i'm probably going to whip around a little
faster than you with my restricted one and two dollar coin program and see if i can't get those
uh goldies out of the ground uh in the first few minutes hopefully yep that should be good
all right all right we're gonna dig this one it's a beautiful 28 27
a couple of bars down potential for a florin is actually very high i'm not taking my eyes off it
right it's too deep for the pinpointer that is brilliant
because it means that we have some depth to it so we'll just gently get in
get down just coerce the plug out without scraping the bottom there we go we just gently lift it over
and we oh yep come on in here we are right there we can just see the edge of a coin
ah i should be thrilled to see that two cent piece well i got it that's the first one coffee
bush you've opened your account i think i've got one over here that might be worth having a
look at too cool okay i've got this one here look i think it's adding pretty good to be
my first goldie one or two dollar coin possibly still just another ring pull but or a it's not a
rig pool sorry a bottle cap let's just get out the trusty mind load pinpointer here got him working
i'm getting a solid sound in there right under the pin pointer time to get out the trusty screwdriver
move it back a little bit flick a bit of this out of the ground here and see what we have here
it's the first one
goldie digger dave strikes with a two dollar coin
i'm sure there's gonna be the odd one more around here but let's go and see
what the coffee bush kid's up to and see if he's scored any of the old stuff this one right here
it's clipped but it's nearly in the the two one dollar range
but it might also be a uh a bottle cap but we'll we'll find out in just a tick
it's just there not very deep at all we can just smooch that out but here we go
there's a two dollar
that's just 2122 all the day long
right there
yep there it is there's another two dollar coin this is the beauty of the little six-inch coil
and a trashy site because there's lots of 15 16 17s all the way around which are all
pull tabs and everything like that but this thing gets in amongst everything sniffs it all out