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Dam can't do friday, but will try for one day next week.

Geez mate......you're going "all guns blazing". Congratz on the permission and the resulting finds too.....a nice bit of inspiration for the rest of us!

With all this shyte weather, I can feel a bloody bad dose of the withdrawals coming on. At least I can get some comfort from knowing we're all in the same crap situation I guess. :(

Hmmmph found a signal in my backyard last week, marked it with a funnel (was next to the kids sandpit what can I say). Was way to wet to dig, but yesterday had a small window, waited days to dig it and you guessed it a friggin' 1c piece

Might watch Diggers again - getting that desperate.

ill do my best

best my camera can do not the best pics,

thanks, im sure youll find one if ya keep looking :) goodluck out there

nice coins i reckon, and not to much older, i just had the biggest arguement with a council grounds keeper at the park ive been doing for weeks, even tho i have permission this little 50 yr old man telling me i should clear off soon i said i have permission to be here, no you dont fuck off get a real job he said, well i let the fker have it, i said i tidy this park up more than you, im doing no permanent damage, he said yes you are little circles everywere, as i said to him after 1-2 weeks you will never know. then dick face said ill call the cops i laughed and told him hes a old junky idiot (looked like one) lol. his boss then turned up and came to me holding a cellphone here john (head of the council guy who gave me permission) wants to talk to you, basicly pointless as john said he has no problem with me metal detecting the park as long as there is no permanent damage at all, i said of course not and told him i will come and see him at the council, the guy took his phone back i said he doesnt have a problem, ya mate down there has a chip on his shoulder he needs to sort out. i then left and went to council, also took a shopping bag full of cans,lids,glass,sharp tent pegs,beer lids,random junk. showed john the main man and he was impressed and took a photo of the stuff, he said he had 2 complaints about me, one was who gave me permission to detect there, they were told me (john) lol. and 2nd was if he finds a bag of gold whos is it? lol like really someone actually rung the council and said that lol. good meeting indeed as long as i keep it tidy with zero damage im aloud. still ruined my day made me angry and feeling violent so i left the park for the day as i really didnt wanna see the nutter groundsman while i was in that mood again. anyway big blabble over lol enjoy

yer my plugs are kinda u shaped i leave a small bit attached, i use a garden trowel gives a circle look to a plug, im sure there maybe 1-2 holes out of the hundreds ive dug there that might look abit tatty but very rare and i told him to show me were my holes were i couldnt even notice ones i had done the week before, hes lucky ive calmed down abit over the years or he might need a ambulance, i was a very violent person some years back and still have a wild streak when pushed being ADHD dosesnt help either with stress and confrontaion, oh well i will go back every day just to let him know im the boss at that park. lol thanks for ya comment to. love a good story of troubles from the past :)

Well done on the rings GS.


MK

Hi goldstalker,
Nice finds & a good read. Doing really well over there.
Last year when I was back for a Holiday I spent a couple of hours at Dixon park in Grey. Concentrating on where the old path used to run diagonally from Sawyers Creek to the Remembrance? Bridge.
Found a lot of Coins, especially Pennies & Half Pennies - all rooted. The highlight was a 1914 US Silver Dime, plus lots of 3 & 6pences. A real mixture of English,Australian & NZ ones. However, nothing bigger than a Shilling.
I also spent an afternoon at Victoria park in front of the now demolished grandstand. That area was loaded with targets.
Lots of small Silvers, the majority being NZ 3p's. for 4 hours there I detected nearly 120 Coins, lots of spills of Pennies & Half Pennies - if you thought the soil it Dixon park was rough on Coins, you ain't seen nothing compared to there.
Copper Coins literally changed colour & broke apart once dug up. My favourite find from there was a 1912 Aussie sixpence. Before I left they ripped all that area up into big heaps, you could pick Coins out of the dirt.

I also had a few hours at Omoto racecourse, didn't find much there. But I was talking to an older guy who told me that previously a couple of people from ChCh spent a weekend there detecting. Parts of that racecourse have been built right up - so the older stuff there is really deep. One area there got some really early English Coins.

If you want a good read, get your hands on a copy of Gold, Coins, Greenstone & Bottles by Peter Neame.
He did a lot of detecting around the Goldfield areas on the Coast. The books got some great pictures & stories about the finds he made. This bookshop in Hokitika should still have copies -

http://www.westcoastbook...roddetail.asp?prod=BGold

Anyway, good luck on your future hunts:)!

P.S I forgot to mention the nearly 200+ 1 & 2c Coins dug, bastard things!