BIG! Silver and an interesting mix of coins today.

I am having to head further afield for a decent haul these days, I think I have just about hunted out all my closer local spots. The bits below are from 3 hunts, the first mid week at a picnic area just out of town. I thought it had promise, however the only decent thing that came out was this piece of silver jewellery. It has what looks like a gold bit in the centre, hallmarked 925 on the back.

This morning at first light I was off out to a local school where I got the florin last week, no more silver there today but dug a Kiwi penny, English 1/2 penny and a Fiji penny. Two old decimals and a $1 made up the 6 coin haul. At lunchtime we headed out of town to an old school closed since 2003, we have been there before but it was a wild and windy day and I don't think I was particularly careful........we wrote it off as a bad loss back then, however I decided it was well worth another look. Last time we did dig a penny and 1/2 penny.........so I was thinking there must be more and even possibly silver. Well the theory worked this time, we ended up with 23 coins from this site, the 1/2 crown, shilling, 1951 florin, a couple of Kiwi pennys, an Aussie penny and 1/2 penny, plenty of old decimal and even a couple of goldies. Yep, happy chappie I am!

Two hunts and two results today............

First hunt was this morning at daylight, a very small strip of turf along side an old stone wall on the boundary of the old hospital grounds. There is a footpath running through from one street to another, I've done this place in the early days but was put off by all the junk thrown over the wall. I had a feeling there might be some goodies amongst all the trash so I decided to do it again and dig every high signal. This was the result (the good stuff!) after 40 mins.

The ring is Stg with what looks like a peridot, and how interesting with the Aussie penny and 10c. Also got 2 X  $2 coins. This afternoon we went back to an old favorite school and cleaned up on some more pennys, old decimal and goldies. On the way home we noticed that a grass walkway along side the netball courts had been ripped up ready for paving. Stopped by for an hour and dug some more goldies, the bent pennys and a few old decimals. Pretty good day on the coin count, 42 in total taking the years tally over 400.  I have also shown the "other stuff" apart from the junk we dug today. All the bullet cases came from the same spot. Not researched the headstamps yet but they look like 5.56 nato (.223) shells.   

                                

Up with the birds

We have had drizzley rain here for the last 4 days, finally woke to a dry day so I was up and off by 6.30 to hit a local school. An hour's hunting around the edge of the grass amongst the trees produced this little lot. I have only had one pre decimal penny from this school before and I was convinced that where there is copper there must be silver..........and sure enough there was! All the pennys are English strangely enough, a 1913,1916,1936 and a '36 1/2 penny.