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Cheers mate. Yep, she's hallmarked alright but unfortunately it's unreadable.
How was your trip to the Coast?

A cold but clear night last night, so decided to head back to the "hunted out spot" to give it one more crack........but why bother, it's hunted out.... right?
There I was, sniffing around on me own in the dark for a good half hour, not getting much, when who should I spot appearing out of the gloom.........foiled again and coinnut doing a night mish to the same spot.
After a brief chin-wag and a joke or two about tonight being the night to pull a sov from the said 'hunted out spot', it was time to set to the task.
First decent signal was the cool silver belt buckle ring, slightly squashed but real old and real cool. Not hallmarked but has the word 'sterling' inside the band. Then came a series of musket and pistol balls followed by a modern 10 cent piece..............then............the nights defining moment, the pinnacle of the hunt......the BIG bucket list tick.
A very solid 76-77 on the T2se showing a target at around 6 inches. It hadn't even occured to me that this could be "it".
As I flipped the plug, I knew immediately what was staring back at me.
Coinnut was the closest to hear the almighty "WOOHOO". I think he immediately knew what that meant. Foiled again was way down the far end and missed the call. A second ear bleeding "WOOHOO" and he knew something was up.
Gently I lifted the golden roundness from the hole with both lads looking on, muttering something about 'bastard' under their breath.
What an absolute buzz..........she's a 1902 Edward VII half sov out of the Sydney mint, and as can be seen in the pic's, she's in top nic.
Totally stoked and buzzing with my first half sov....YOU LITTLE RIPPER!!!

It's all ot there lads and ladies.....go get it!

Edited by user Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:39:59 PM(UTC)  | Reason: SYDNEY MINT MARK

Yup bloody awesome GOLD coin my man!!
Time to finally update ya signature!!!!

congratulations:):):)That's awesome #8!! Very nice coin indeed. Stoked for you man .Is that a high reading on the t2? what does a 1c read?

Plenty more in the ground waiting for a coil:)HH

Cheers mate. Yes, a higher reading than I would have thought for the half. I thought 68-72 was the target range but this half was a consistent 76-77.
A 1c is usually 79- 81 on the T2se and a 2c reads 82- 85.

Well deserved!....................And a brilliant little write up. You certainly sounded like a happy chappy on the voicemail when I cleared it.
Whats next on that list??

well done andrew,its in fab condition is there anything better than a gold coin!!!!

Too much. Congrats on the Golden roundness Number 8. Great find, choice post.

HH

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hi andrew cool finds is there a makers name on the shoe i have a feeling its one of the famous ones the same one that tonz finds lots of charles horner something like that, its funny i have one almost identical.

Nice one. Man the silvers seem to be running again in good numbers at the moment...I better get my line in the water!