I was detecting with a friend in early June, 2021 and we had been detecting a local beach after a recent storm had washed a lot of the sand away. Sadly, there was nothing to find even though it look very promising. We decided to move to another location that had always delivered a few old and new coins and seemed like a good way to spend the rest of the afternoon. I swapped my out large 17" coil and put on the Coiltech 10 x 5, which I find fantastic in weaseling out good targets among lots of ring pulls and other debris. I managed over the next half an hour to get a nice Florin and a couple of pesky 1 & 2 cent pieces. I moved on a bit and got a nice high tone and started to dig the hole. Out came a nice G III halfpenny. Cool! Checking the hole again out came a few more coins and as I went deeper, more and more and more. I had come across a cache of very early coins. I could not believe what I had found. Some of the pennies had fragments of cloth attached to them. Probably buried, wrapped in a piece of cloth. There was no evidence of any form of container in the hole. A total of 68 coins. 4 x Spanish 2 reales Earliest date 1763 3 x USA silver half dollars ED 1818 4 x English shillings 48 x English sixpences (G III, G IV, W IV) A couple counter stamped. 1 x Cartwheel penny 3 x Georgian Penny 4 x Georgian Half penny 1 x G III half Crown The only Victorian coin was one of the shillings (1838) . I don't think I have heard of another find of this size and age in South Australia. It certainly is my find of a lifetime. Cheers Jacko 27