43rd hunt

Spent the afternoon at the picnic area again. Found an assortment of stuff, including 4 and three-quarter silver coins. The ring is light and resembles some sort of mood ring. Was surprised at the shallow depth of the thruppence hardly 3 cms of dirt above it. GL and HH to those that get out this weekend! :)

Pre-decimals on the beach

Finally found a few pre-decimal coins on the beach today, along with alot more older NZ coins, a few more aussie ones, $2.50 clad and a couple more fishing lures.

Short evening hunt

Went over an area i had searched already again today for about an hour this evening, and dug some more of the 50's/60's signals that i guess i had previously ignored as pull-tabs the last time. Looks like i might have to re-search this area again over a few days and dig all the 50's/60's ;)

The silvers below have just been scrubbed under a cold tap with a toothbrush so far. A few other times i've then scrubbed them for an hour with toothpaste, or some sort of bathroom creamcleaner, or soaked them in a jewellery cleaner pottle and scrubbing with a toothbrush with that. I'm interested to know how everyone cleans them up further from here?

Short afternoon hunt

On the beach this afternoon in the midday heat for an hour. No really interesting finds, but i did figure out today, that alot of those iron sounding things i've not dug on the beach might have been rusty new 50 cent pieces - lol!

Short morning hunt

Spent a couple hours this morning checking an area next to where I found 2 shillings back in August. The coins are 3 pennys, 1 half penny, Aussie 50c & 20c, 30c in old NZ currency, $1 clad and a 1934 florin :)

Gold and Silver ( Sorta )

Spent this afternoon at the picnic area coin shooting in the dirt again. $32 in goldies, 28cents old NZ and a 1953 Penny. Good fun :)

The little 925 only just fits past the outer joint of my pinky.

To all those heading out in the weekend, GL and HH! :)

Picnic Area

I've missed getting dirty, so i gave the beach a rest today and dug some holes in the mud.

No silver, no pre dec's or real gold, but the $19 spendable keeps my interest in that spot ;)

Yes, my pinpointing and plug making needs practice - lol ;)

Another couple hours at the beach

Spent another couple hours on the same beach, this time, mostly up on the dry sand. Ended up with $5.80 spendable,  an Aussie 50c, $2.34 old NZ currency, a key and a few bits of junk.
Also took a newly acquired toy along for a play ...

Must make myself one of those pipe type of sand scoops for the dry sand, too much time spent for $1.00! lol ;)

On the beach again

Spent about 3 hours this afternoon grid searching another bit of the beach area i started last week.

Finds seem to be starting to dry up for me there now. I picked up a couple junk rings, a few old decimals, $1.20 spendable, and a few other junk items in the time i spent out there today.

Friday Fun

Top ring is stamped STG, needs a good cleaning as its mostly black. Has 2 buckles like on sandals on the top of the ring. Bottom ring has 3 purple/red colored stones on 3 separate bands, joining at the bottom. Cant see any marks on that one. Pipe #2 I've dug made me laugh, I don't even smoke, normal smokes! Some more old currency, and the $8.40 spendable takes me over $200 in total clad since Aug 1st. Fun Friday! :)

Good luck to all those who head out over the weekend! HH!

Gold Rings - #1, #2 and #3!

Welllll... i guess just #1 seeing they are all linked together - lol!

Weather looked like it was going to crap itself with in the hour when i decided to leave the house today, but after yesterdays finds, i was determined to head back there today, even if it was only for 30/40 minutes before it hosed down. I'd only dug about 3 or 4 coins before hitting the ring. I've been hoping for something gold since the 1st of August, but when #1 actually comes out of the hole, it sure got the heart pumping!

Not long after digging out the ring, the rain started lightly, but, after just finding that, the jacket hood covered the earphones, and i kept on going for another 30 mins or so till it really started bucketing down. Ended up pulling out the gas money for the day and some more older coins.

It had a stamp on one of the bands, and it looked like gold, but i couldn't really make out what the numbers were, and i was itching to know exactly what it was, so i took it into a jewelers on the way home. The lady there told me it was stamped 375 and it was a 9crt russian wedding ring. No names or other engravings on the bands, means its a finders keepers ring in my mind - WOoHoO! Gold #1 - TICK :)

Roll on the next afternoon its not raining!

More beach swinging

Tried a different beach area again this afternoon, a bit closer to low tide today, and this one seems like it could be a little more productive than the others I've had a go on so far.

Back to the beach

Gave another beach a go today, even getting out and wading up to my knees in the water. Didn't pull a single thing out while i was in the water, or even on the wet sand. The stuff below came out on the dry sand. $10 spendable, old 20c/10c/5c, junk ring and sinker. Keeps me interested in the beaches for a while longer ;)

Exercise is good!

After this week of digging around in the dirt, im sore, more sore than i've been in almost 2 years. Each day my arms hurt, my legs hurt, my back, shoulders, wrists and even my fingers hurt! But, knowing all this soreness is my body saying, wow, your exercising again, makes the soreness (and 100's of pulltabs) more enjoyable! The other good thing is, my bum aint hurting from spending 8 hours each day gaming now! ;)

Couldn't search at sports ground 2 today, as there was a group of people gardening or spreading bark or something in the area, so i went back to sports ground 1 for an hour or so and pulled these out...

Here is my weeks trash from both areas...

...and the the keepers.

It's been a fun week of dirt digging. GL and HH to all those that are heading out in the weekend! :)

More sixpences

Another couple sixpences this morning, along with 7 NZ pennys, 4 British pennys, and the usual 2c's and 1c's that seem to be everywhere on this side of this park. The silvers were parked right up against a stump of a tree that had been cut down a while ago, only about 5 cm down. The first trowel full popped them out.

Today and yesterday i've had a few more people stopping and asking about what im doing, and although its want i said i wanted on Monday, it also now means i have to go back tomorrow to finish this area off. New area number 4 will have to wait till next week ;)

Few more silver

Same park, but from the other end, slowly scanning and digging almost every half decent target. Will spend one more morning/afternoon finishing off this sideline area, then ill try another end of the park.

Cant think of an exciting title for a slow hunt - LOL ^^

Started grid searching the area i wandered on Monday, from the opposite end where i found most of the silver and after about 2 hours, i had only pulled up 1 older than decimal coin, a bent 1876 penny. I'll be back to the other end next time ;)

Weighed yesterdays silver coins out of curiosity, although after collecting coins for over 20 years, i don't think i could ever bring myself to send them away for melting down! ;) 

Hands up!

This morning i found myself at a new location... again! lol ;)
I guess i just wanna try em all out, and see if there's any stuff worth spending more time there.
And after seeing all the silver dug over the weekend, i was wanting more!

New area number 3 didn't disappoint . . .

Got out before sunrise, and left about 3pm, just a little bit after i had a visit from some officers!
 Haha, yes, thats right, some busy-body called the police, and said someone was digging up the park! Funny thing, which worked in my favour, is that one of the officers used to metal detect in the UK! So after a bit of a chat, and a squiz at what id pulled out for the day, i was wished good luck, and they went off, hopefully not to be called out to someone elses time wasting arrogance. I plan to head back to the same area tomorrow, and actually start grid searching blocks of the area, instead of just randomly wandering the whole area swinging.

I'll also be writing a little "note to the editor" for the next local paper, directed to the arrogant nosy-parker,
and will suggest to them, that next time, they actually come and inquire what im doing, instead of wasting valuable police time ;) Anyone else had something similar happen???

Semi cleaned scans....

Another Domain

Had a look round another new place today,
for about an hour or so, and came away with these..

Glad it was just 2c after the awful sound it made ;)

Quick Hunt

Just an hour or so at the sports ground again today,
after some fathers day shopping at the warehouse.


Thought, seeing the sun was out today, i wouldn't bother wearing a jersey.
Stupid mistake - lol. Nose running, almost shivering within half an hour from the cold wind.

I tried a different area today during the short time i was there,
and again pulled another 1800's coin, so im definitely going to spend a day here,
when im a little more prepared for the weather ;)