The Victoria Diggers Unearth Rare Artefact Worth $16,000 | Aussie Gold Hunters 

Planted. End of story

I can honestly say I've never dug a target that came out as clean looking as that coin holder.

I'm sure he looks in his display cabinet at home and thinks hmm what should we find today.

I have seen items that were sitting in a drawer for the past 50 years in worse condition. This can't be real.

In the ground for over 100 years and that coin holder hasn't tarnished? He is a coin collector and happens to find this? Ok, that's believable......but in an untarnished silver holder? No. I'm a jeweler and a coin collector.

This is the most scripted thing I've ever seen in my life. I'm an antique collector, and there is no way in hell that thing wouldn't be tarnished completely black and caked with dirt. He literally pulled it out pristine and polished.

After watching this I've decided to believe in Flat Earth and Bigfoot is real

so fake so staged

I'll go with "fake"

*Victoria Diggers Unearth Rare Artefact Dropped 30 Minutes Ago By Producer

Alarm bells started ringing when you saw that fence post with a bloody great piece of iron sticking out of it, just inches from his detector. Then this shiney soveriegn case comes out of the loose ground. If it was desert country I could almost believe it might remain untarnished but seeing as their ground is so boggy they can't dig, it would be black and rotted after 140 years in the ground..I'm not a coin collector but knew immediately it was a soveriegn case.. All coin collectors would know this... This is a con, no doubt...

when Victoria Diggers can't dig planted gold somewhere ........... they still find planted gold somewhere! - i love this dam show!

No way.. the other guys reaction isnt near suprised enough to be real

Bigger fake after oak island...

Turns out it's his 1855 gold coin he buried in "the soft ground" that hasn't compacted in over 130 years!

Congratulations on the awesome discoveries.

It's a shame they let the producers go down the BS route as that area they are prospecting is the real deal and all their natural gold finds so far are 100% genuine

Truly fantastic find! I definitely wuld never rub gold with the thumb as dirt and skin leaves hairline scratches,especially in gold...great stuff fellas..what a find!

love these guys, the 1 makes them a cup of coffe, the other 1 is trying to open the artifact :p the look on the coffe guys face is priceless when he looks over, respect

CLEAN FIND REALLY CLEAN FIND SO CLEAN IT MAKES YOU QUESTION RIGHT.

In the time to say "Hey Nick, look at that" The old guy managed to stop metal detecting and appear by his side. These guys can travel at light speed!

Absolutely amazing you guys!!!! AMAZING!😄👍 I’m almost jealous lol😊 Good job again 👌

I collect sovereigns, those are in amazing condition, stuff dreams are made from...

Lol I just found 2x1927 pennies and 1x1933 halfpenny been in the ground since ww2 I spose, theyre green but in really good condition.

As someone who does metal detecting myself: that would NOT have been that clean after being in the ground that long. FAKE!!

Awesome Find!!

Amazing luck with these guys! NICE!

That’s a bloody ripper mate, fucking noice one mate.

Awsome find guys!

It is kind of crazy out of all that land they knew exactly where to find to find the most expensive phone that's probably out there

WOW.Thats bloody awesome

Incredible find, mate's! I'd keep the gold coins just as they are. I'll wager their historical value is far greater than melting them down for gold content.

1886 Melb sov = $25k, 1881 Melb sov = $gold value, 1855 Sydney mint sov = $15k total approx $40-50K nice find

Also hate to break it to you but those detectors cost $800 each and if they were serious about gold they wood be using different detectors in the Minelab lineup to add to all the discrepancies on this video

great find

Maybe he found it earlier and didn't get it on camera and he cleaned it before he thought about it . Who knows

I had fun watching it even though it was planted there keep having fun guys

Perfectly polished gold coins inside too. Seems legit

This is absolutely real! I find stuff like this everyday!

Why risk the integrity of the show with something that looks very suspect. I've seen these guys genuinely find gold nuggets worth more quite a few times.

if you really found that . you'd be a lot more excited than what he was

I can’t even win a dollar on a scratch ticket haha

Can't even get "artifact" spelled right

i hope they get a Gold Logie . i liked this one

Silver oxidizes gold doesn’t. That would be in that good of shape the ground doesn’t have a lot of water but still would be oxidized

The tire tracks early in the video give it away. Someone backed into that spot.

Nice rare artifact you got there

Haha glad I’m not the only one thought it fake

I gotta get myself to australia and get some sweet gold!!

That's so awesome

What detector is he using?

Looking for relics and artefacts in the middle of nowhere stumble across this expensive rare bounty.... Yeah nah!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow very very nice sir..its gold..its nice and 😲

This has got to be the best season for exciting watching....Ever !!!

Awesome mate after this let’s get a couple of stubbeys.

never seen Au soil that loose usually need a pick to dig.

Totally believable 100% not fake

Show de bola 👏👏👏😀

"You lucky, lucky 'bar steward'.....😜😜

Whoever produced this show has to be on Xanax.

REAL...~smirk~

For me that have done this for 40 years, maybe its real but the soft ground is rare in a dry enviroment. Its a great find but maybe planted after the real digging to show the audience. Ive done this myself cause at the first dig the camera was not rolling (for museum purpose). Maybe he found this much earlier and showed it to the crew.. lets do it :) The silver looked that it been outside the earth for a while, clean and shiny. But ive found 1800 century silver in dry and wet area that seems to been dropped minutes ago.

Would rather see the footage of them setting it up

Awesome!

Did we ever get to find out what mick got for those 3 sovereigns, or did he get them valued and kept them in his collection?

What happened to you on Aussie gold. I was going mad you aren't on it. I was looking forward to seeing how you got on ..

This could happen. The environment may be arid enough and with the added protection of being buried under ground, it is quite possible to find a relic in good, cosmetic condition as this. Precious metals, (eg., gold, silver, platinum, palladium) do NOT CORRODE, rust, oxidize or "turn green," in any way, without exception. Items composed of a base metal, which are gold or silver "plated, filled or bonded," will. Solid gold will not "discolor" at all, unless it is of very low karat, with a high alloy mix and even then, that bit of age patina can usually be removed with a vigorous rubbing. Silver on the other hand, will tarnish, sometimes quite darkly, over significant time and under the right conditions. That said, I have never seen a solid gold or silver coin come out of the ground, with any cosmetic issue pertaining to oxidation or tarnish. The only thing needing cleaned, was the bit of mud or dirt, trapped in crevices, that came out with it. In soft, dry ground, debris likely wouldn't attach at all. As the sovereign case was clearly silver, most certainly 925/1000 parts or higher and the coins were high karat gold of at least 916/1000 parts, they could come out of that ground, in that place, looking every bit as lovely as they did when they were lost in it. I'm not saying they did, just saying they could.

Actually sovereigns were 8 grams with 7.32 grams of gold.

Nevels a good mate

I want them

I cant wait for new episoids so i can see ol boy cry again

It's a rippa mate!

Thats one episode i call fair.

Idk if it's real, but that iron in wood would have made it go off somehow

nice acting :)

Dude planted his cool coin collection. Let’s look here

What kind of metal detector? It looks like a minelab but what model??

Gold goes to the Gold Diggers & and ashes to the poor potty makers.

The coin holder was very shiny it would be tarnished

I feel like I've been robbed 😀

2:57 Nothing suspect here at all "Nice lock in on a high target here" Look at what is in the old fence post... you could have at least marked your spot with something without a bloody huge lump of iron in it.

Fake fake fake.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😎😎😎😎awsome Find Mates

Yeah the advid coin collector happens to find the perfectly perfect supposed artifact that's been buried for years and years in just pristine stunning condition.

why was the soil loose there after so many years of Victoria rain.

It's not impossible to find stuff like that untarnished if it's just been in the dirt

people used to sit under the peppercorns

in the hot dry australian ground, this is very much possible, little rain and hot dry dirt, and a closed capsule, seems well believable to me

What's next you guys gonna unearth all of Atlantis with 2 shovel digs?

Don't know if it's staged or not but I found a 1901 Barber dime metal detecting and it was bright white 8 in deep

Obviously you havent dug under a pepper corn tree before thats standard & great to see blokes having a go & it paying off 🤑🤑🤑👍

Oh my god did that just really happen,going to get myself a metal detector,and head to Australia,my god🙄

Getting on for 150 years in the dirt think of how many seasons thats been sat in the ground with the heat and the rain and it looks brand new not a spec of dirt with zero corrosion it's too good to be true

I've been wrong.

Thats why you dont see him spray the piece with wd40

Hmm seems a little strange.

Só entende ouro e prata

Nice

Don't all relics and artifacts have to be reported to heritage Victoria under our strict laws.and the sale of such artifacts for profit is prohibited

That log w/ bolt was a marker for sure... Don't waste my time please!