Another morning in Hagley

Spent another morning in Hagley Park. Tried a different area that i haven't swung in before, and it ended up making my list of "To go back to's" in the near future.

Ended up with 5 Pennys, 1949 Half Crown (a silver one still eludes me!), 1 half penny, 1987 2 pence, $6.20 in clad, about $1.22 in old decimal NZ coins, 2 silver shillings (1934 and 1940 NZ ones), a 925 stamped ring, and a neat badge with a crown in the middle and National Reserve NZ Railways around the outside.

HH all :)

More Hagley Hunting

Searched a couple different areas of Hagley Park again today, ended up with 10 gold colored coins, NZ 1942 penny, Brit 1920 half penny, NZ 1951 half crown, US 1984 1 cent, 30c in old decimal NZ, another time zone token, an old silver ring that i broke digging up >:| and a NZ 1934 Sixpence :)

HH all :)

Hagley Park Evening Hunt

Spent a couple hours in Hagley Park this evening with a couple other ChCh detectorists (Andy and Chris).

Started off by pulling up about 3 cans worth of aluminum bits, then got a NZ 1941 penny. After that I noticed another detectorist over the channel from me, and went and said hello. Went back to the area i was searching after a short chat, and found another couple pennys (1940 aus and a 1891 brit) then managed to find a 1935 NZ sixpence and a solo $1 goldie.

Silver #3 this week

Tried another park / soccer field area today, over in the Avonside area. Only 3 finds in an hour, but im happy with one being a silver bracelet. The other 20 dug targets with goldie like numbers went in a rubbish bin. HH all :)

  

Water hunting looks like fun...

So i decided to have a hours swing in a stream next to the area i found alot of silvers previously.

2 Pennys, 2c, 30's florin and a couple old lures. Plan to head back when i have a bit more time along with a bigger scoop and togs ;) May even have to waterproof the pin pointer in a few zip-lock bags ;) I hated not having it with me today! lol!

HH all :)

Free money Monday

Finally had a decent mornings hunt, that was half worth writing a post about!

Lots of goldies & 1c's, a time-out coin, a lure, a thimble, a cow and a big flash junk ring and a 1934 shilling :)

HH all :)

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 !