My first token

Went back to the Tauranga Domain in the rain,worked my way around the old trees trying to stay out of the rain,found the two old silver coins one on top of the other at about 7",the sixpence is 1908,the shilling is 1918.I then moved to another area were an old bandstand used to be many years ago,and got a deep signal about 8"down turned out to be this old token pretty hard to make out the writing,but I can clearly read the words DUNEDIN OTAGO,and an S.WILSON the rest is unclear I will give it a good soak.The date is 1857 one of my oldest coins yet,when the rain stopped I headed out to the soccer field and found the other coins $19 in goldies,an english 1pound coin.the little silver ingot and a couple of pennys and the halfpenny.It always amazes me that coins keep popping up as I have been   over this area half a dozen times now,I guess it comes down to learning your detector and a bit more patience from me.

Back to the beach...GOLD...YIPPEEEEEEE

I just had to go back, as all the holiday familys have gone back home,I went back over the same area again but this time quite a bit slower and intentional,listening to those deeper sounds,one thing I have learnt is to run the etrac on all metal in the sand, and dig most signals.The gold ring (9ct) come up 12:15 if I was in a park I probably would have ignored that, as it is identical to a tear tab.Problem is now I am thinking heck how many fine gold rings have I missed in the past,ah well I will just have to go back to all them spots again,what a tough decision.There is two pictures of the rings, before, and after they were cleaned up, roughly that is the other rings are all silver and $19 in goldies.Thanks Guy you were right about there being gold in this spot,a bit disappointing as a quick test shows that the stones in the gold ring are not diamonds,but I am still a happy chappie.

Good ol' NZ

Well back home after a fleeting trip to the gold coast,we came away a bit disappointed work is very hard to find (especially for us oldies).so back home again and hard out looking for another camper and the intention is to keep travelling as the lifestyle is great,its just the work thingee we dont like,we will be staying around here and do the hairyberry season then move north or south depending on the severity of the winter.

 In the meantime I have been haunting the Mount beaches again,today I came on to an area of beach that had been well washed over after a resent storm and exposed a lower layer,well i had a ball picking up coin after coin,also the three rings two which are silver the other i suspect is brass,$39 in goldies,also of course lots of metal junk the result of the Rena and the containers that came ashore.Funny how the beach had just hollowed out in just this one area about 100 metres long,Anyone got a job for a 61 year old (haha) there is not quite enough in metaldetecting to survive.......