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Posted : Wednesday, 21 August 2013 9:56:22 AM(UTC)
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Im thinking if i go looking for the aussie 2 cent then i will find a sovereign. Hopefully the rain will amplify the target.

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Posted : Wednesday, 21 August 2013 7:53:26 PM(UTC)
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Found!!!!




Unearthed a lot of iron to get there lol.
How about any silver coin from 1967, if there is such a thing.

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Posted : Wednesday, 21 August 2013 8:04:52 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: foss391 Go to Quoted Post

How about any silver coin from 1967, if there is such a thing.


Unfortunately there are no NZ silvers in 1967 even USA silvers stoppe din 1965
Please select something that does exists and more abundant
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 August 2013 8:44:04 PM(UTC)
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Ok, how about a 1964 florin, it was the second coin i found when starting.
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 August 2013 8:58:09 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 August 2013 9:04:13 PM(UTC)
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lets forget the silver bit and go with the florin
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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 11:29:05 AM(UTC)
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1964, that not gonna be easy. How about any non silver florin.

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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 12:02:42 PM(UTC)
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Hmmmm. You've got me thinking...

Why do we hardly ever find non-silver florins?

I think when they took the silver content out, the silver ones stayed in circulation because the silver value was only slightly higher than the face value at the time.

When they switched from florin to 20c piece, there was an active removal of the the florins from circulation (possibly with users taking florins into banks to exchange for 20c pieces)?

So even though silver florins only went from 1933 - 1946 - 13 years, they may have been in active circulation until 1967 (or even slightly longer?) whereas non-silver florins lose out by 13 years.

But I still reckon my silver:non-silver florin ratio is higher that this accounts for.
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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 1:20:50 PM(UTC)
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I'm digging a heap of non silver florins in the last few months. Bang on 65 pull tab reading in the gold bug. One just last night hehe
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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 1:36:27 PM(UTC)
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Found!!!!




Unearthed a lot of iron to get there lol.
How about any silver coin from 1967, if there is such a thing.


The only post 1965 silver coin that I can think of is the US half dollar.... they are 40% silver and is could be possible to find one here though nearly improbable.
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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 1:38:44 PM(UTC)
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I hear that the non silver 3ps are hard to find... I only found 4 of them since I started here over two years ago...
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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 8:05:06 PM(UTC)
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I'm digging a heap of non silver florins in the last few months. Bang on 65 pull tab reading in the gold bug. One just last night hehe


I was going to say the same thing as I noticed it too in the last few days of digging them. I never dug the pulltab range before.
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Originally Posted by: Goldnut Go to Quoted Post

The only post 1965 silver coin that I can think of is the US half dollar.... they are 40% silver and is could be possible to find one here though nearly improbable.


Its more then probable. I found a 1964 Kennedy 1/2 dollar (40% silver) on Waiheke a couple of years back. It had a small hole drilled in the top so assume an American tourist wore it on a necklace and lost it swimming. Always surprising what can be found!
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Posted : Monday, 26 August 2013 8:27:32 PM(UTC)
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The only post 1965 silver coin that I can think of is the US half dollar.... they are 40% silver and is could be possible to find one here though nearly improbable.


Its more then probable. I found a 1964 Kennedy 1/2 dollar (40% silver) on Waiheke a couple of years back. It had a small hole drilled in the top so assume an American tourist wore it on a necklace and lost it swimming. Always surprising what can be found!



There was also heaps of Americans here during WW2


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Posted : Tuesday, 27 August 2013 3:55:58 AM(UTC)
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Could always change the comp into what a radio station did 'Send an Aussie Home'.
I have AU$18 (more if I looked harder) to put towards the effort..... just a thought!


Nice job foss391 for finding a 2c Ozzie coin of correct year..in New Zealand
Max have you moved to Oz yet?

I take it were looking for a 1964 one of these things (photo from web):

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Posted : Wednesday, 28 August 2013 2:24:42 AM(UTC)
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one of these,found this the first day i got the detector. I thought it wouldn't be too difficult but if you guys want then how bout,

A Florin from the sixties.
Don't worry about the silver thing lol.

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