Early Ballarat Gold Mine: Australian Freehold Gold Mine, certificate for 5 shares, £1 paid, 1852, no.924, scrollwork left, black with heavy blue underprint, fine and scarce. Early Gold Miner: The Australian Freehold Gold Mine, certificate for 5 shares, £1 paid, 1852, no.924, scrollwork left, black with heavy blue underprint, fine and scarce. Dated February 1852, only a matter of months after the first commercial quantities of gold were discovered in Victoria.