Like with a number of amazing finds you have to be at the right spot at the right time. In this case I was out at an early Victorian Goldfield and rang a friend about getting access to another small rush town. He was just about to head out with his better half and was lucky to get a few hours grace to catch up. The first site was an early house site where I discussed about how good it would be to find a Gold Ring made by a lucky prospector in the gold rush and he about his ongoing search for a gold sovereign (common banter from the team that he hasn't cracked a gold coin after years of searching). We had another hour to kill so we headed to the small rush town and fired up the machines. After taking a quick phone call I turned to swing over a shallow 20/21 target on the Equinox 800, initially thinking it was a shotgun shell, and after digging the rock hard ground out popped a beautiful gold ring. Given the period of the rush the ring was most likely made locally on the goldfields around 1860 by a lucky Irish miner with gold found nearby. The old saying the luck of the Irish was with us as the next day my friend found one of the rarest gold sovereigns minted in Australia with his Minelab CTX 3030. We love getting out on these historical sites as you never know what the next target will bring, maybe a golden piece of Australian history.
GemQ - Victoria, Australia
