Gold plated coins

[lozz38]

Went hunting yesterday at the old school site where i had recently made some other finds and put them on display in a timber frame in the school which is now a museum. I was showing some of the other members of the Historical Society how the X-Terra 70 performs when i got a nice sounding TID of 32 right beside the kids sandpit. Digging up the target and there was a flash of a gold coin and the old heart skipped a beat or two as i really thought i had found a gold Sovereign. Closer inspection revealed a gold plated half penny made into an earing dated 1962.

Interesting that the coin ID was 32, right where an aussie half penny should be, even with the covering of gold.

The other coin is a gold plated penny that i found a few years back at the local park, but it has been damaged and almost looks like it has been shot a glancing blow from a low calibre weapon. It makes me wonder why a gold plated penny would be used for target practice or if it was like in an old wild west show where the cowboy flicks a coin into the air and then whips out the six shooter.

Ah well, that gold Sovereign is getting closer now, i can just about feel the weight in my hand.

Good luck to all, and thanks for looking.

 

[kiwi-jim]

Sure would get the pulse going seeing that gold colour,I wonder what happened to the owner of that shot at penny?.

 

[Terra1959]

lozz,

Now there's something you don't see everyday !
Great piece for the historical society to witness.
Well done mate.
Hopefully that gold sovereign is not too far away...go get em.

T59

 

[rajae2006r]

Super
Rajae,
Bordeaux, France.

 

[Furious T]

I suspect that the penny has been hit by a spike of some sort. Could be a peg hammered in to hold a rope for a tent pole or something similar. Instead of going through the coin it would have turned it in the ground.
Some detectorists have an annoying system of discrimination, which is ramming a sharpened screwdriver into the ground when they get a signal at the higher end of the range...the spike goes straight through a bottle cap, but will be stopped by a $1 or $2 coin. I once found an 1873 3d which had been ruined by someone using this method. However, I would say that the penny is a bit too thick to have suffered its fate at the hands of one of these fellows. Nice finds, keep up the good work for the Historical Society, it is a worthy cause.