Honking Great GOLD Ring!

This is why "The Goldmine" is called just that. I knew that sooner or later it would give up more than just gold coloured coins. The ring is 18ct, weighs in at 8 grams and was only about 2" deep. It registered 51 both ways on the F4. Boy oh boy, am I doing the happy dance right now! As it is engraved inside with a first name and a date I will, of course try to locate the owner. Made my day! Got some spending and pre decimals too boot............What more could you ask for a 1 1/2 hr hunt.

Quick hunt before dark this evening........

Managed to liberate another $28 in goldies from the goldmine tonight along with a nice silver ring and what looks like a Lamborghini. Not sure what the brass object is, and the mag light was a bonus.

4 Silvers Today

Hit the same park we hunted last weekend, after a slow start with what seemed like a ton of 1 & 2c pieces we finally hit some goodies. The silver fob watch bezel was a bonus, I thought it was a bit of junk when it came out but it is indeed marked Stg 925. As you can see, plenty of old decimal and only a couple of other pre decimal coins. The '47 3d was lying on top of one of the shillings, came up as a pull tab bouncing to a penny signal.........nearly didn't dig that one! Anyway a most productive hunt with 50 coins all up and a nice bit of silver to boot.

Another park........more silver!

No rain today, so this afternoon we headed to a park out of town that we have been to a few times before and had some luck. We have had a few pennys and the odd silver out of here on past visits, so I thought it was worth another try, as I seem to be able to "home in" on those smaller signals amongst the trash now I have more experience. As it turns out, it was worth the drive, 36 coins, 6 silvers and the most mower cut pieces of coin from one spot in one hunt. Included were the 1920 Aussie penny, a nice button and the cut penny is a young head Vicky 1884.

The "Goldies" keep coming.....

Making hay while the sun shines.............the weather forecast down this way is for rain, rain and more rain over the next week or so. So that meant back to the goldmine this evening again for another goldie hunt. We are happy with the results, 48 coins in a couple of hours including $22.20 in spending. The bracelet turned out to be junk but it had us going for a while.

Full moon "Goldmining"

The promise of a few more shiney goldies lured us back to the park this evening for a quick hunt before dark. A bit of a mixed bag  as we were targeting both goldies and jewellery. This shows in the amount of old decimal we dug. The watch would have been nicer if the gold and diamonds were real, the same goes for the plated ring and butterfly charm..........Still, in all a great hunt. At least we did dig 1 pre decimal, a "61 florin.

I know I said we were done at the Field but........

We couldn't decide where to hunt today, the park is too full of curious kids on weekends so we decided to look for new gorund out of town. No luck at the place we tried, and, as we had to pass it I decided ( to Carols disgust!) to give the Field another going over. I certainly raised her interest after digging two pennys in one hole followed by the English 6d. Only 26 coins today, but the 2 silvers made it worthwhile. The little badge is an Air New Zealand Jnr Jet Club badge.......never seen one before, and the Popeye brass is cute too. The remnants of yet another penknife, some old decimal and an undatable copper nickel shilling made up the other finds. Of the pennys 2 are Kiwi and the other  4 are British with the oldest being 1896.

The "Goldmine" gives up some more.

You guessed it, back to the park again this evening before dinner for another goldie hunt. We couldn't go last night as I had to work late.......  :( We managed to rescue another $21 in lost goldies, a silver shilling, a penny and a couple of rings. The pinkish ring is enamelled on brass, the silvery ring has been made from an old EPNS teaspoon.......I like it, think it is quite unique!

A bit more from the "Goldmine"

Jeeez Chris I think you put the mokkers on me when you mentioned my $2-$1 ratio from the park........LOL I am now getting more $1 coins, gonna take me longer to save up for the Etrac this way! Anyway another quick 1 hr hunt before dinner tonight, (pasta and meatballs BTW) netted 27 coins, $13 in goldies and this nice silver and turquoise earing. Saw the "other" detectorist there again, said hello and moved on. I think he is using one of the el cheapo Chinese knock offs, similar to a bounty hunter by the looks of it. He wasn't very chatty, I got the feeling he felt we were "invading" his territory. Shame, I would have liked to compare notes.

More goldies and Silver from the park

The weather was forecast for rain this evening, but as luck would have it the sun shone so we headed back to the park for a quick goldie hunt before dinner. For the first time ever, I saw another person detecting in the park. Gave him a wave but he continued on his way swinging high and fast..............A beginner perhaps. We had picked up a couple of goldies and the other detectorist had made himself scarce so I decided to go over the same ground I saw him do. BINGO! 2 silver rings and a silver earing...........Ok they were all somewhat squashed but I managed to  form the rings back into shape. The last target of the evening, just on dark was the mother of pearl handled pocket knife. Most of these finds were in the same ground the other bod had been over. There are lots of bottle caps in here, some very new and some very old and rusty......all register in the same range as copper and silver on the F4. I have learned it is better to dig 10 bottle caps to find the 11th is a silver ring than to miss out!