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Starting my new page off with some pics of last months finds. The best being yesterdays 1834 sixpence. Hard to believe as we were all just posting our oldest coins, whats the chances of that.. Im still buzzing. Not to mention the two 1950 half crowns. A nice GOLD piece would of topped off last months finds, found only Gold plated treasures.
My favourite is the fish lure and the William IV 1834 sterling silver Sixpence. (sounds good doesnt it).

...some pics of last months finds


The silvers. Amongst these is an 1882 french 50 cent, 1908 sixpence, 1834 sixpence and my first nz silver shilling a 1942


The two 1950 Half Crowns. Two badges and a button


Some very old copper treasures here. The love heart brooch appears to be made of copper sheets id say and the sailing boat one appears to be possibly plated tin im not sure.


The police 38 cap gun found on a beach


Hard to get a closeup on my 34... thats 1834


Items found at the first stop yesterday. The rock looking thing dings silver but its heavy. Ill have to chip into it a bit to find out what it is.

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to much bro them brooches are amazing cant wait
to come up anp inspect your finds properly,your
getting some really old finds now bit of good
research there mate you were right about that
sea wall spot on bro.

dude that is an impressive collection just one this page wow !!! Love the wee cap gun its very cool and holy shit 1834 mate you just equalled Karl's and the oldest coin I know of being found my a treasure hunter in NZ!! Damn you hahaaa but shit that is cool!

#65 trip. Totally worn out from the day/night before we toned our second day down to a short buzz around my kneck of the woods. Hit the site for a couple of coins then went to, hmmm, lets say a local park area. Ding ding, straight into the loveheart knecklace. By the time i started digging a small crowd had cottoned onto us and circled around. Bling, there it was, a silverish love heart in full view of the small crowd. Every one was google eyed by now, i swung the detector again and ding straight onto a small ring, the crowd was impressed and so was Chrisyboy and myself. Time for the crowd to go so we kicked back for a bit and one guy brought us a ring too look at which he recently found snorkeling. He dragged as much info out of us as he could and then left, probably to buy a detector..
What a cool time we had, Cheers Chrisyboy. 2 goldies, 3 coins all up, a ring and a kneclace.

Everyone was google eyed by now

Edited by user Friday, 3 February 2012 9:43:56 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I think the reason that you are getting so many 1950 Half Crowns is because it was a good year - My mother would have told you that! It was the year all her dreams came true and the nightmare began!

Edited by user Friday, 3 February 2012 11:57:06 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

wow fantastic finds shane..is that ring gold?..it looks it....dam i am going to have to plan a trip uo there,you finding lots of great stuff.

Hi there Ash-T. That silver half crown is a hard one to find. Ive found three of them, all 1950's, and that was last week. This one spot we only buzzed half of it so i would say its holding more for sure. The half crown i found here was in a hole with a bunch of pennies. Took a while to clean it out.

Heya Poohbear. That ring is copper and diamontes. Next time..
Plenty of room up here. Ill save a beach for you to fossick..

Nice avatar you got there Guardian, I was wondering what you looked like.. That 1965 english half penny was found here in the bay by Chrisyboy under a tree near a beach. Its in really good condition and looks neat as it has a sailing ship on it.

Shane an English sixpence is about 19mm and a 3 pence 16mm diameter
if that helps. I have had some success with white vinegar as a cleaner on
silver coins but you got to keep an eye on it.

HAH HAHHAHAHA nice monkey.....