Mick in Dubbo
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I've put in 3 hunts into my son's school over the last week. I had a cracker of a hunt last Saturday for modern coins with a total just under $63. Combining this week ends hunts, I managed to get those totals up to $104.72.
Yesterday started a bit slow and I was digging most good signals. About 45 Min's into the hunt, I got a signal that indicated a 10 cent piece. On recovery, I pulled it out and that's what it looked like, till I flipped it over to see the back of it. It had a Maori face on it with a smaller than usual 10 on it which surprised me a bit, then looking down to the bottom of the coin, saw the words "one shilling" written on it! Big surprise. The date was 1967. I've never seen anything like it before. It is possible, that it may have been some sort of transitional coin, as the New Zelanders would have changed the currency some time around then, but I'm only guessing. Not long after that, I found a Kiwi 2 cent piece as well. Never seen one of those before either.
Today I was only able to fit in a couple of hours, but managed to turn up a silver ring and a couple of pennies. The area where I found the pennies, was just bare ground, and I figured that it wouldn't produce much. I had a bit of a go at it and started getting good signals right away. Trying to pinpoint them was quite difficult, as no matter where I went in pinpoint, it just wouldn't drop off. I lifted the coil and I'd lose the signal, but the pinpoint was never ending. As I'd just gone past a long pipe only a matter of a few metres away, I thought that it was just continuing in this spot, as it was pointed in this direction. However, that little voice inside me, told me to go back and try again. I finally managed to isolate a target, and out popped a 2 cent piece. Several more 1 and 2 cent pieces rapidly followed. Over here, that is a good sign, as these coins come in the same area of discrimination as a lot of our pre-decimal coins, and If you're getting them, then pennies and half pennies want be far away. Within 5 minutes I had 2 of them in my hand. Hopefully, with the rain that we've been getting, I may get a day off work so that I can go back and check this spot more fully, before my time of permission runs out.
I'll post some pictures next week end when the family returns with the digital camera's.
Mick Evans.
Yesterday started a bit slow and I was digging most good signals. About 45 Min's into the hunt, I got a signal that indicated a 10 cent piece. On recovery, I pulled it out and that's what it looked like, till I flipped it over to see the back of it. It had a Maori face on it with a smaller than usual 10 on it which surprised me a bit, then looking down to the bottom of the coin, saw the words "one shilling" written on it! Big surprise. The date was 1967. I've never seen anything like it before. It is possible, that it may have been some sort of transitional coin, as the New Zelanders would have changed the currency some time around then, but I'm only guessing. Not long after that, I found a Kiwi 2 cent piece as well. Never seen one of those before either.
Today I was only able to fit in a couple of hours, but managed to turn up a silver ring and a couple of pennies. The area where I found the pennies, was just bare ground, and I figured that it wouldn't produce much. I had a bit of a go at it and started getting good signals right away. Trying to pinpoint them was quite difficult, as no matter where I went in pinpoint, it just wouldn't drop off. I lifted the coil and I'd lose the signal, but the pinpoint was never ending. As I'd just gone past a long pipe only a matter of a few metres away, I thought that it was just continuing in this spot, as it was pointed in this direction. However, that little voice inside me, told me to go back and try again. I finally managed to isolate a target, and out popped a 2 cent piece. Several more 1 and 2 cent pieces rapidly followed. Over here, that is a good sign, as these coins come in the same area of discrimination as a lot of our pre-decimal coins, and If you're getting them, then pennies and half pennies want be far away. Within 5 minutes I had 2 of them in my hand. Hopefully, with the rain that we've been getting, I may get a day off work so that I can go back and check this spot more fully, before my time of permission runs out.
I'll post some pictures next week end when the family returns with the digital camera's.
Mick Evans.
