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WestieDiggers finds

WestieDigger		Posted : Saturday, 6 June 2015 7:35:09 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Taken advantage of the shite weather to collect all the spendies from the local playgrounds. Nothing interesting really found until tonight. While mrs westiedigger was visiting some friends I escaped to the beach for 20 minutes. A few spendies and some old decimals in pretty good condition. Going back tomorrow to get rest. WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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WestieDigger		Posted : Sunday, 7 June 2015 8:18:42 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Back to the 20 minute beach. A nz half penny Young queen with tiara Canadian Quarter 3 Lead snakes, I have no idea what they are? Toys? Votive offerings? A ugly heavy earring or brooch Junk ring. Bit of a bracelet More old decimal coins WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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Mudwiggle		Posted : Sunday, 7 June 2015 8:24:06 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 22/10/2013(UTC) Posts: 742 Thanks: 182 times Was thanked: 683 time(s) in 317 post(s)		Originally Posted by: WestieDigger Votive offerings? Hahaha.... Been watching too much Time Team! :) Pixyland Zoo is the best I've come up with though. But not a match Edited by user Sunday, 7 June 2015 9:15:46 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified

WestieDigger		Posted : Monday, 8 June 2015 12:08:40 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		After carefully cleaning my Canadian Quarter and blowing up some close up photos its clearly a 1981 coin so that's nickel not silver. The marks on the snakes head looks like a cobra symbol maybe they are Indian funeral tokens I can remember reading something on a forum about cobras and scattering ashes but I can't find it. If thats the case I will return them to the beach. Edited by user Monday, 8 June 2015 12:16:23 AM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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Metal Kiwi		Posted : Monday, 8 June 2015 7:38:04 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 19/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,210 Location: Auckland Thanks: 498 times Was thanked: 484 time(s) in 322 post(s)		I found a whole lot of those snakes on pt chev beach a while back. Think they will becpme more common as time go on due to our growing cultural makeup. MK
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WestieDigger		Posted : Monday, 8 June 2015 8:04:33 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Are they funeral tokens MK?
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Metal Kiwi		Posted : Monday, 8 June 2015 9:22:15 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 19/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,210 Location: Auckland Thanks: 498 times Was thanked: 484 time(s) in 322 post(s)		Originally Posted by: WestieDigger Are they funeral tokens MK? Yes I think so or something similar WD. I also found elephants at the same hole. See here: http://metaldetectornz.b...4/silver-and-snakes.html MK
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WestieDigger		Posted : Tuesday, 9 June 2015 5:47:29 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Up North for work. Had a swing and there it was just sitting there waiting for me. .925 silver and 14k gold in the form of pandora flowers Charm 790441 I spent rest of my smoko and lunch looking for the rest without success. Very happy anyway WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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roy1954		Posted : Tuesday, 9 June 2015 7:19:31 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 28/03/2012(UTC) Posts: 628 Location: christchurch Thanks: 442 times Was thanked: 372 time(s) in 242 post(s)		great score
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WestieDigger		Posted : Saturday, 13 June 2015 5:46:44 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Back in auckland and tried being a bit smarter with the discrimination and locations. Hit a beach and got a lot of brass, bronze and copper scrap Including the tampered padlock. The heart locket is junk. Brass Hour glass shape I think is the backing plate for a scouting or military insignia. Also eyeball found the stem off a clay tobacco pipe. Earliest coins old decimal 10c and 1c. Will try again low tide tomorrow. File Attachment(s): 20150613_162136.jpg
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trigger		Posted : Saturday, 13 June 2015 7:44:13 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 13/02/2011(UTC) Posts: 142 Location: marlborough Thanks: 12 times Was thanked: 25 time(s) in 21 post(s)		Great finds Westy .need new batteries and I'll be out on a hunt. Surprised still getting out of Auckland beachs

WestieDigger		Posted : Sunday, 14 June 2015 1:48:57 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Trademe pickup messed up tide for clay pipe beach so headed to area that should be good. I have tried there before but was confounded by the millions of pull tabs and bottle caps. Lots of discrimination and saw me pulling a lot of 1c,2c,5c &10c old decimal currency. Most have lost their dates but most that do are mid 70s and the 1970 matchbox car leads me to think that I am not in the right spot based on my research I should be getting stuff from the 1900s and earlier here as well. The bullet shell has lost its head stamp but its probably a .303 Edited by user Sunday, 14 June 2015 1:57:46 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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WestieDigger		Posted : Saturday, 20 June 2015 3:05:16 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Back up north for work. Had hoped to smash a few beaches but work got in the way. Hit a few playgrounds in Dubtown which were pretty clean evidently someone local visits them regularly. Got a few spendies and 2 crusty 5c a 1966 auzzie 2c and a 1968 US quarter. Also tried the beach in front of one of the playgrounds and found a definite musket/pistol ball that I put back into the tide. Drove out to a surf beach after work one night but only found a few spendies but horror of horrors left my sand scoop somewhere on the beach... it was dark once I realized and I could not find it. WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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sycotoad		Posted : Saturday, 20 June 2015 3:22:54 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 9/08/2012(UTC) Posts: 569 Location: downunder Thanks: 120 times Was thanked: 126 time(s) in 97 post(s)		that plain out suxs - I was saving up for a scoop but left my custom shovel at the beach and thought better about losing more money lol - nice finds all the same
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WestieDigger		Posted : Friday, 26 June 2015 8:05:35 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Site of old house. NEW ZEALAND FORCES Button. Brass. Made by J R Gaunt & Son http://www.nzmuseums.co....ccount/3021/object/29927 Edited by user Friday, 26 June 2015 8:08:27 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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Mudwiggle		Posted : Friday, 26 June 2015 10:34:14 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 22/10/2013(UTC) Posts: 742 Thanks: 182 times Was thanked: 683 time(s) in 317 post(s)		Nice. I haven't found any militaria yet - not for lack of looking though.

creamer		Posted : Monday, 29 June 2015 12:20:21 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 19/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 2,022 Location: Bay of Islands Thanks: 2289 times Was thanked: 525 time(s) in 391 post(s)		Awesome find. Probably been through the middle east and then to Galipoli 1914 - 1917. Found one up here along with a Galipoli remembrance medalion, was very happy as military finds up here are few and far between. HH .
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SamAsh		Posted : Wednesday, 1 July 2015 8:26:07 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 13/05/2015(UTC) Posts: 54 Location: Wellington Thanks: 99 times Was thanked: 81 time(s) in 25 post(s)		Originally Posted by: WestieDigger Site of old house. NEW ZEALAND FORCES Button. Brass. Made by J R Gaunt & Son Nice find! - I just found the same button today :)

WestieDigger		Posted : Sunday, 12 July 2015 7:46:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 6/01/2015(UTC) Posts: 217 Location: North Island Thanks: 207 times Was thanked: 291 time(s) in 135 post(s)		Land wars by-catch from a spendy hunt. 40th of Foot button made by Smith Kemp and Wright of Birmingham. A UK metal detecting site dates it as 1840's. A Google search puts the 40th in the area in the early 1860's. Wasn't looking for it but it beats a cruddy 10c. Edited by user Sunday, 12 July 2015 8:16:47 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified WestieDigger attached the following image(s):
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number8wire		Posted : Sunday, 12 July 2015 9:08:21 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 10/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,175 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 913 times Was thanked: 880 time(s) in 425 post(s)		Wow!...stunning find, and in such good nic too. That's the sort of find that makes this great hobby of ours so addictive. What you have there is a small but very real piece of our nations early, turbulent European history. Just imagine what that small button must have been through and what it's owner must have seen and done in the very early years of European settlement. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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