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Gold! Silver! and Bron....... OK it's copper.

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Mick in Dubbo

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Got the nod to hunt at the school my wife works at on Friday. Tried to get there early on Saturday, but domestic duties held me back till 3pm. It was a hot 36degree day (Celsius).Managed a three hour hunt that turned out to be quite productive, just on $35 with a coin count of just over a 100. Just before I left, I had a security guard come up
wanting to know why I was there. It sure pays to get permission. After explaining myself, we ended up having a yarn for fifteen minutes. In that time he was able to pass on some good info on an old Cob and Co. stop that was close to town, that I had no previous knowledge about, as well as an old School house that had been pulled down many moons ago. Enthusiasm is a wonderful research tool!
Sunday turned out to be probably my most successful hunt yet. To be honest, I thought that I had already hit the most productive area on Saturday, and would have been happy to reach a target of $15. Fate had a different outcome in stall. The hunt started slow, there were areas that really needed the sniper coil, All I could do, was take off the large coil and use the standard coil, do to too many targets close together (must have missed a lot as a result). Anyway early in the hunt, got a good signal and dug it up expecting a coin, only to find my very first gold ring!:hot: There was one little happy camper who suddenly found that he was less concerned if I didn't reach my target for the day, but the goodies kept coming at a slow, steady pace.
The out of the ordinary didn't stop there. A short time later, got another good signal, which I duly dug, then out pops a 1955 threepence!Whaoooooh!! This is only the forth silver coin that I've found and on the same day as a gold ring. After that, I found myself checking out all possible 1 and 2 cent coins, looking for pennies and was duly rewarded with a 1958 one. Shame I put the screwdriver strait across the face of it. In the line of the unusual,I also managed yet another Kiwi 20 cents, and amounst a number of commemorative coins, I also found a returned services 20 cent piece which is included in one of the photos, as well as a tree league badge.
The day ended more successful than the first day, with a total of an even $42. Both days were 100+ coin days for a combined total of $76.90. That keeps me on track for the end of year target.
I'll be contacting the Principal tomorrow to see if I can find the owner of the ring.
Hope you enjoy the pictures. Apologies for a couple of them being a bit out of focus.
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Fantastic Weekend, Mick & such a great variety of coins found.

Special Kudos on your first gold ring, too.:clapping:
 
Looks like you had a great two days. A great bunch of finds and some really great pictures. You were due. I hope you have many more good days. I would go nuts if I found all the coins you found. I found a 121 coins the other day and it probably didn' t add up to $5. It seems like you have a greater variety of coins in oz then we have in the states.


I am trying to figure out the shirt.
 
Mick. Bloody bonza mate. It's a great feeling when you bang you first gold ring. 9 ct or 18 ct ? I had permission on one of the local schools here until someone screwed it up for me and found that after cleaning out around the bottom of the play equipment, there were coins and goodies spread all over the place. I ended up with about 600 bucks off this place over 6 months. Got some good pre decimals including 1915, 1916 and 1917 shillings in good nick, 6 florins and a couple dozen pennies and half pennies. Couple of 3 pence and 6 pence bits as well.

The silver badge that was in the GGT article came from this school. I found the more productive areas where were the kids sat with their lunches. Outdoor seats or grassy areas under trees. Found heaps of 1 and 2 dollar coins there. I was asked not to dig on their oval and I was very careful not to and to fill in holes. Some other person in town got on there at night and dug holes in the oval and didn't fill them. So the powers that be decided that they would stop all detecting. Shame because I know there was a lot more there !

Chris.
 
The interloper probably saw you by day and figured to beat you to the greedy punch at night. I ve had that happen.
Wouldnt you like it if someone "bloodied his bonza" for him!?
 
You had a super day !:clap:

Excellent collection of coins and great job on the ring !

Keep those photos coming !
 
Chris. I don't know what carrot the ring is.It has the Numbers 750 508-4 on it.
Sorry to hear that someone fouled up your spot like that. It sounds like it was a ripper of a site! It is a sad fact that their are a lot of detectorists jump school fences to detect without asking. They give the rest of us a bad name. I have been informed of several sightings in Dubbo of people doing just that (at all sorts of weird hours).
This is the third school that I've been able to access. I have a standing arrangement with the principal at my son's school, that I only need to contact the office before I hunt here. The other school wouldn't let me in last year, but they had a need that I was able to satisfy in exchange for written permission to hunt. I now have almost unlimited access to that school.Been there 3 times so far, for a total of $63, and that is only about a quarter of the playground.
That badge you found, looks great. It's not an everyday find. Something that amazed me about your article, was the number of different foreign coins that you'd found. What a collection!
Hopefully a new opportunity will come your way and you can get into a new school.
All the best,
Mick Evans.
 
Thanks John.
Yeah. You're only seeing a small snippet of the variety that we have in our coins. I'll post the different ones as I find them. There is more than 35 different type of $1 coins, probably over a hundred different 50 cent pieces and about 4 different types of 20 cent pieces. The 20 cent pieces are a lot less common, and all have some very nice designs on them.
The shirt I am wearing in the picture, has the Estonian national flag on it. My farther in-law was born there and had to flee it with his mother during the Second World War. My wife and her family went back there a couple of years ago to meet relations over there, and she decided to get her Estonian citizenship while she was there. Estonia is the northern most of the three Baltic states. It also shares it's border with Russia, and is only 45 miles by sea to the Scandinavian counties.
Sorry to hear about your rain (Send it over here!). You've been having some very nice weather till it came.
Mick Evans.
 
Hey Bill. I hate to be the bearer of some bad news. Yeah, we've got big $1 coins; But you seemed to have forgotten. The best things come in small packages! Our $2 coin are small and twice the fun to find! Not to mention, that I tend to find twice as many of those than I do of $1 coins.
Just thought I'd clear that one up for you.:rofl:

Mick Evans.
P.S. Hate to think that you might get jealous.:rofl:
 
What a great pile of loot!! And a gold ring on top of that!! That 250 is really doing a job for you, that's for sure. We're lucky if we get 3-4 dollars total in a hunt, but then again, we don't have 1-2 coins either. Doggone mint, do away with the dollar bill!!!
Permission is a great thing. Before I started hunting the schools here, I got permission in writing and I've been carrying that letter around in my wallet for 5 years, waiting for someone to ask me what I was doing on school property. Finally last week, a cop stopped and asked what I thought I was doing digging on school property and I whipped out the letter and he said, "OK, have a nice day and Do you really find anything with that?" I showed him how it worked and told him Garrett has a CSI 250 and he was going to check it out to carry around in his cruiser.
Anyways, congrats on the first gold ring!!
 
Man....is that ever a large pile of coins you got. Congrats on that gold ring and silver coin. Mmmmmmmm plus 36 C????? I would get heat stroke in those temperatures :lol:
 
I didn't mean a big one dollar coin but coins worth big dollars. Guess I'll have to get the crud out of my mouth so people can understand me or learn how to talk. And to think, I'm a writer. :rofl:


Bill
 
I guess that you must be saying to yourself, "How can I fly like an eagle, when I'm surrounded buy Turkeys!":rofl:
On a slightly more serious note, yes we are very lucky to have such high denominations. Hopefully, you guys and girls won't be too far behind in that department. Despite having such high coinage, it's surprising that the hobby over here, doesn't seem to be as popular as it seems to be in the U.S..
Mick Evans.
 
Wow! That's even better than I thought. I figured that it was probably 9 carrot. After I posted the pictures, I realised that only the profile was pictured. It actually looks like a plain mens wedding band, but is so small, that the threepence only just fits inside it.
It won't even go past the first knuckle on my pinky finger.
Thanks for passing on the info.:clapping:
Mick Evans.
 
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