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whats your oldest coin?
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 1:04:39 AM(UTC)
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Gday all found my oldest coin so far a couple of days ago its only a penny from 1879 but it makes me wander how old other coin finds in newzealand are any feedback would be appreceated cheers
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 2:41:36 PM(UTC)
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Gidday andy. Good old penny that. You'll find older than that tho soon enough I bet!
I think my oldest is a 1817 shilling. I actually have two but the date on the other is unreadable. Could be 1816 lol.
Just wait for the following comments from others...!
Reminds me of a thread I saw on an Aussie website counting down in years of coins people had. They had to go year by year til they got stuck
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 2:51:30 PM(UTC)
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Sweet 1816 is is geting prety old ay.I'm prety sure the place I found it will have more oldies I only found it by chance because I had my machine set on custom settings to discriminate against every thing other than 1 and 2 dollar coins but for some reason it let of a realy strong signal anyway lol
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 2:57:54 PM(UTC)
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Yup pennies can read pretty high-much like big ol silversssssss hehe
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 3:14:29 PM(UTC)
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King George III penny 1806 - 1808. Dates worn off so I can't work out the exact year but these are the only years this coin was minted and George III's bullhead is fairly obvious. Would love to break into the 1700's which could be doable here in NZ. They find cartwheels in Aus so some should have made their way across the Tasman.
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 3:22:01 PM(UTC)
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Yeah there is some cartwheels here kiwijim has a blogg called metaldetectingbop mentioned finding a couple a whileback not sure where tho
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 10:21:47 PM(UTC)
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1854 french penny...I reckon I have older silver but so worn just can't tell at all..
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 11:29:44 PM(UTC)
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chinese coin from Emperor SHENG TSU, AD 1662-1722

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american one cent piece from 1790s

both fairly shagged.

1833 Russian coin excellent condition and

1813 Australian coin excellent condition
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Posted : Friday, 14 December 2012 11:40:31 PM(UTC)
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An 1807 Brit half penny. It came from a coin spill of six half pennies I found in Hagley recently. The others from that spill are also the next five oldest coins I've found. They are 1826, 1827 and two 1848's. One half penny is completely unreadable....just a thin copper disk.

Oldest silver I found only last night in Oamaru. It's an 1852 Gothic Florin.....very worn but thankfully with the roman numeral date intact!

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Posted : Saturday, 15 December 2012 9:04:17 AM(UTC)
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1858 sixpence although I have a 1696 William III crown but it was not dug out of the ground.

Num. 8 you seem to find a lot of gothic florins, awesome stuff! I'm still looking for my first.
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Posted : Saturday, 15 December 2012 9:12:57 AM(UTC)
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1858 sixpence although I have a 1696 William III crown but it was not dug out of the ground.

Num. 8 you seem to find a lot of gothic florins, awesome stuff! I'm still looking for my first.


It'll come for you mate.......just a matter of time and perseverance.
It's actually only the third one I've found. Roy1956 is the king of Gothic Florin finds. He must have 15 to 20 of them I think.
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Posted : Saturday, 15 December 2012 9:46:12 AM(UTC)
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my oldest is a george lll 1806 penny found in hagly park bout 2"under a 1879 penny which was about 6" down. also got a 1837 east india quater anna and my oldest silver is a 1859 shilling.
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