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nzpoohbear40  
Posted : Saturday, 25 February 2012 11:19:50 PM(UTC)
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sounds about right shane....you do have some very cool finds though if not all silver rings...lol...i beleave you have found more gold rings than i have..or atleast more gold stuff...
I am going to try and spend the whole day at the beach swinging tomorrow weather permitting...will see what i come up with.
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Posted : Saturday, 25 February 2012 11:25:54 PM(UTC)
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Good luck PB !

~holds head~ I predict $6 in goldies and 2 Silver rings!

Shouldn't be to hard to beat, you always have cool finds!
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 12:28:13 AM(UTC)
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ty gaurdian i hope you are right...lol..
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 9:05:25 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: nzpoohbear40 Go to Quoted Post
sounds about right shane....you do have some very cool finds though if not all silver rings...lol...i beleave you have found more gold rings than i have..or atleast more gold stuff...
I am going to try and spend the whole day at the beach swinging tomorrow weather permitting...will see what i come up with.

Ive found one GOLD ring, a few items with some GOLD plating on them and some flecks of GOLD on a quartz rock from thames. That first GOLD ring find is enough to carry me thru to the next one, who knows what will turn up next.. Good luck at the beach.

...just the one find. .925 silver ring and a 10k GOLD ring with tiny diamond.
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:19:39 PM(UTC)
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They would be encouraging for sure.
I found my first car key on the beach the other day - but no gold rings yet.
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Posted : Monday, 19 March 2012 10:50:33 PM(UTC)
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well went to ashburton and did a hunt with robert, I found alot of the normal stuff....but then i found this war metal..or i think it is a metal...
On one side it says.....on the outer circle "europian war August 1914"
and in inner circle. " england exspects that every man will do his duty"

then on the other side it says patriotic New Zealand has a crown at top and a head in the center

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Posted : Monday, 19 March 2012 10:59:53 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: nzpoohbear40 Go to Quoted Post
well went to ashburton and did a hunt with robert, I found alot of the normal stuff....but then i found this war metal..or i think it is a metal...
On one side it says.....on the outer circle "europian war August 1914"
and in inner circle. " england exspects that every man will do his duty"

then on the other side it says patriotic New Zealand has a crown at top and a head in the center


http://www.trademe.co.nz...ls/auction-151634399.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz...ls/auction-151634399.htm

One pierced brass medalette with "PATRIOTIC NEW ZEALAND" on one side along with a profile of King Edward VII with crown above and New Zealand flag & Union Jack around the outer. The other side has "ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY" in the centre with "EUROPEAN WAR AUGUST 1914" around the outer.

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nzpoohbear40  
Posted : Monday, 19 March 2012 11:26:48 PM(UTC)
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ya have seen that one on trademe....and there is another one that still has the picture up

http://www.trademe.co.nz...ls/auction-453122174.htm

this is what it looks like...i thought it was a good find.
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crisyboy  
Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 8:17:06 AM(UTC)
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yeah its a top find,
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Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 10:17:17 AM(UTC)
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Very nice find there Poohbear. I dont think ive found any war finds up hear yet like madals and such.
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Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 11:03:41 AM(UTC)
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Good find alright! A medal is on my wish list to find for sure. I notice you called it a metal though a couple times lol Did you find it with a medal detector? lol Sorry for taking the p1ss but i couldnt resist as it seemed quite funny. :)

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Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 9:35:25 PM(UTC)
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Silver bug strikes yet again..lmao..was out at the groynes tonight with Ash_t and ended up with TWO silver items...hahaha

A silver mens ring and a silver necklace...as well as a few normal coins
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Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 9:49:01 PM(UTC)
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Nice finds there Chris love the silver stuff but man that war medal is something else!! Good stuff :)
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Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 9:56:15 PM(UTC)
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PB,
whats your total Weight of Silver for a year?
I just checked mine and it is about 130 Grams :-)

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Posted : Tuesday, 20 March 2012 10:59:59 PM(UTC)
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hahaha i dont know..i never weighed it and i have sold some off.
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 March 2012 12:03:20 AM(UTC)
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Nice silver. Good finds from The Groynes.

I got sick of housework today so went to Hagley for a few hours. Was walking down the path by that first settlement monument (heading for my target area) and so was holding the detector still out on the grass to the side of the path (so walking normal speed and not swinging the detector - just doing a strip alongside the path) and got a good DING, so dug it and it was a 1942 shilling. That's a good sign, I said to myself.

In the target area, found a pocket spill of 2 pennies and two silver shillings, so gridded the immediate area, and found a worn british sixpence with a hole in it (for a necklace) about a metre from the pocket spill and a few metres away a 1934 half crown. Nice!
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 March 2012 9:29:54 AM(UTC)
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Chunky ring you found there Poohbear. You seem to be a magnet for silver rings.
Well done on the half crown finds to you and Oroplata.
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nzpoohbear40  
Posted : Wednesday, 21 March 2012 9:58:33 PM(UTC)
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well out to hagley after work tonight befor it started raining...met up with ken...the silver is still coming...this time in coins...
got 4 sixpence and a florin...as well as this piece of necklace/earing?...

the sixpence 1933,1934 and 2 X 1940

The florin 1934...all in all a good night for me..also got 4 bucks spendable..
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 March 2012 10:35:27 PM(UTC)
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Cheers for the company out there tonight Chris.
Glad I could help clear all those nasty scraps of cans and pull tabs so you could get the good stuff ;)
It was a fun session though - I have a few more numbers to look for next time I'm out
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Posted : Wednesday, 21 March 2012 10:49:11 PM(UTC)
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hahahaha thanks to one or two guys on here who told me that gold rings come up at between 50 to 55 in signal i had alot more scrap tin than i normally do to..lmao

but yes it was good to find stuff so you could test with your machine to log what numbers come up for you.
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