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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 12:06:21 AM(UTC)
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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 8:50:35 AM(UTC)
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Nice going. Thats some field. Ive found 11 silvers in 6 months.. And only 3 pennys at my not so secretive spot.. Speaking of secrete spots, one of the owners saw me at mine yesterday and approached me. "wot have you lost'' he asks. We chatted, he raminded me that i was on private land. Told me some history dating back 60 years and gave me the go ahead to continue fossicking. All good. A lesson there for me.

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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 9:41:50 AM(UTC)
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I bet you thought you lost your good spot! So far I have only been on public land... But I have been eyeing up a couple of nice looking spots I just haven't gotten the balls to ask yet... lol
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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 2:08:23 PM(UTC)
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WOW cool finds there you must put in alot of effort,
thats some serious silver you have found.good to see
your posting again.good combo boats,bikes,detecting,
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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 4:08:55 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Goldnut Go to Quoted Post
I bet you thought you lost your good spot! So far I have only been on public land... But I have been eyeing up a couple of nice looking spots I just haven't gotten the balls to ask yet... lol

Yes i did. Took me down a knotch in the learning curve. Im starting to think that not many would say no if one was to ask. There would be a 99% curiosity rate to start which is the biggest bonus. Land is either council/DOC or private. Wont go there..Go ahead and ask Gnut. Youll be surprised and comforted in the fact that you succured your special fossicking spot/spots.

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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 4:32:26 PM(UTC)
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I have asked permission a few times now with mixed results.

4 x OK's no problem.
1 x no!
1 x too many layers of management to get an answer
1 x asked 3 times now over a 9 month period and got weak excuses every time that really just meant no.

It's like anything else - win some loose some.

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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:20:23 PM(UTC)
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Well lets just say that this spot is a historic spot... might just have to do a night hunt... lol!
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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:40:46 PM(UTC)
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Soon as my detector shows up I'll be in.


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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:44:45 PM(UTC)
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Nice going. Thats some field. Ive found 11 silvers in 6 months.. And only 3 pennys at my not so secretive spot.. Speaking of secrete spots, one of the owners saw me at mine yesterday and approached me. "wot have you lost'' he asks. We chatted, he raminded me that i was on private land. Told me some history dating back 60 years and gave me the go ahead to continue fossicking. All good. A lesson there for me.

Shane


yeah can be like that ae...sometimes common courtesy will go a long way, especially with teh older type owners

I have a theory, if you're finding pennies (large coppers) then there will be small (or) large silvers there also. I have hit this field maybe 50 times, and had silvers every time...it's easy to miss a spot it seems. Today I went there and again found one silver shilling some pennies etc (pic to come below) and thats after a really good rain...all coins scream louder when moisture is around them.

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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:53:28 PM(UTC)
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WOW cool finds there you must put in alot of effort,
thats some serious silver you have found.good to see
your posting again.good combo boats,bikes,detecting,


haha thanks man yeah sculled a 500ml can of V before I started...naa seriously tho this field has been really really good to me and other detectorists that have hunted it...I'd estimate 250 silver coins have come from here that I know of...about 165 of them have been with my F2

still gives me a good "chubby" to find lots of nice silvers...gold too but i've only had the one gold from this spot

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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:56:55 PM(UTC)
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Thanks everyone

I went back to the spot today but only there an hour an the taxi phone started going off the hook for work do's etc so had to leave and do some realy work (lol)

still another silver for the tally tho...

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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 11:13:04 PM(UTC)
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those 1935 shillings seam to be plenty....nice finds dan...i love finding the pre 1900 stuff even if only the penny's....it is just the age of them.
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Posted : Saturday, 17 December 2011 11:45:48 PM(UTC)
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Where you from mate?


I be in Nelson.
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Posted : Sunday, 18 December 2011 3:32:12 AM(UTC)
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those 1935 shillings seam to be plenty....nice finds dan...i love finding the pre 1900 stuff even if only the penny's....it is just the age of them.


yep i'm up to 10 of them now :)
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Posted : Sunday, 18 December 2011 1:32:31 PM(UTC)
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sweet 35" shilling great condition,
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Posted : Sunday, 18 December 2011 2:46:12 PM(UTC)
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Im fairly sure that my site only has a 60 year history hence the lack of silver. Did find a 1934 and 1939 3p and a 1958 penny. So 205 coins there, 2 were silver, 1 penny and 2 half pennys. Alot of the coins are foreign as this spot was a hostel once upon a time. So that makes it a little more interesting.

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Posted : Monday, 19 December 2011 12:39:13 AM(UTC)
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Im fairly sure that my site only has a 60 year history hence the lack of silver. Did find a 1934 and 1939 3p and a 1958 penny. So 205 coins there, 2 were silver, 1 penny and 2 half pennys. Alot of the coins are foreign as this spot was a hostel once upon a time. So that makes it a little more interesting.

Shane


heya Shane yeah man foregin coins are cool they're rarer here :)
the spot I hunted was under use by 1897...gold sovereign era hehe

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Posted : Tuesday, 20 December 2011 1:09:09 AM(UTC)
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went for a drive late sunday arvo and tried some new places out aswell as a scenic drive lol...had some success and got some film of the areas too..

also the wee man I found at local 2nd hand store...he's pretty cool ae! Will be selling him on the buy/sell section lol

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Posted : Sunday, 1 January 2012 4:10:13 PM(UTC)
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Happy new year to you Madsonic. Was just flickin thru your posts and thinkin, i so would like a silver shilling too. All in good time. Post a pic of me silvers for ye.

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Posted : Tuesday, 3 January 2012 6:18:23 PM(UTC)
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happy new year madsonic love your posts
and finds last year cant wait to see what you
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