Explore / Oceania / Queensland
Queensland
Surfers Paradise, QLD
Gold Coast beaches, post-cyclone coin scour
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Coins and tokensAlso reported: jewellery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Century of resort crowds; cyclone erosion drops the beach to the coin-bearing layer.
The New Daily Mar 2019: dozens of detectorists hit Gold and Sunshine Coast beaches eroded by Cyclone Oma; Murray Beattie found $70 in coins plus rings and jewellery in five daysView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Eroded scarpsRips, heavy machinery during beach nourishment
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