Saturday, 7 January 2012

2011 Coin Count

I'm still hiding from the sun after 4 great days down in Kurow, so today i spent a couple hours counting the coins i detected from August 1st to the 31st December 2011.

  • 44 NZ silver coins (5 florins, 13 shillings, 19 sixpences, 7 thrupences)
  • 4 British silver coins (1 sixpence and 3 thrupences)
  • 10 non silver predec (1 Half crown, 4 florins, 5 shillings)
  • 25 badly corroded pennys & half pennys
  • 22 NZ pennys
  • 9 NZ half pennys
  • 35 British pennys
  • 7 British half pennys ( 2 ship )
  • 28 Aussie coins ( including a few aussie pennys and half pennys )
  • 10 other coins from around the globe
  • 101 spendable NZ $2
  • 155 spendable NZ $1
  • 31 spendable NZ 0.50c
  • 82 spendable NZ 0.20c
  • 220 spendable NZ 0.10c
  • 209 old NZ 0.01c pieces
  • 120 old NZ 0.02c
  • 37 old NZ 0.05c
  • 43 old NZ 0.10c
  • 49 old NZ 0.20c
  • 18 old 0.50c
Makes a total of 1259 coins, if i have used the calculator correctly ;) lol!


The above pic shows some of the other stuff picked up along the way, including the 5 and a half silver rings, 3 other bits of silver and 1 gold ring found in 2011.

Only had the one 2012 hunt so far, which was up in Kurow, with my sister, niece and nephew,
and we only managed to dig up a few bottle caps ;) lol!

HH all !

2 comments:

  1. Hey Ash that's an excellent lot of stuff in only 5 months. Hope this year brings you that much n more.
    Chris.

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  2. What a nice haul Ash. Well done and good luck for this year.

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