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The Goldnut's return - My good finds :)
Metal Kiwi  
Posted : Sunday, 29 December 2013 11:12:12 PM(UTC)
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Well I stopped at a little park on my way back to Auckland from Taupo and convinced the Mrs let me do a quick 5 min hunt... well this is what I found :D and I will definitely be going back.

Hi Ho SILVER!!!!


Nice one GN.

Now how far from Auckland did you say that park was?

:-)

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Goldnut  
Posted : Monday, 30 December 2013 3:13:02 PM(UTC)
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hmm.... I cant remember for some reason ;)
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Posted : Saturday, 4 January 2014 8:55:11 AM(UTC)
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Went out with some mates the other day...

Some nice finds best was the 1943 silver nickel! And to top it all off I found the sixpence that I lost over a year ago!

also interesting is that the other sixpences were both found with non silver sixpences...

All up here's what I found:

Pennies 49Au,49,46,58,48,43,38,38,37,36 : Half pennies 20Au,59,60,44 : sixpences 33,43,45,51,57 : threepence 21 : 1 - $.20, 5 - $.02, 3 - $.01, & 1943 Nickel S mark silver


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Silver nickel

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Posted : Thursday, 9 January 2014 8:22:45 AM(UTC)
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Nice finds Goldnut. Cool nickel.

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