'bit o silver and a 'bit o gold

The pics show the results of the last few hunts with the magic wand, the best of the finds to me is the Aussie florin,that came from an old park in our area along with the pennys.

 Most of the other items are from our beach including the ear ring (21kt),hard work on the beach at the moment with the sand all built up,I guess it is only a matter of time before we get a spot of rough weather and all that will change.Most of the other rings are el cheapo's but still a buzz to find.

Wow this is old for NZ

I went back to a park that I new had seen a bit of action during the colonial days,the military were camped here at one stage,I kept finding enough old pennys to keep me interested and I was getting a lot of falsing on some deep old iron,in amongst this iron I got a real high 12-47 and thought this is either a big lump of alloy, or just maybe a silver coin well 8" down out pops this halfcrown,turns out to be a George 1V,as none of the embossing is readable I tried a Google search and if I am not mistaken the year of manufacture was 1824.The old musket shot came from within 1 metre of the halfcrown and at around the same depth (if only they could talk what a tale they could tell)

 The pennys are all much newer ranging from 1908-1962,and of course the modern coins and jewellery were closer to the surface,also found another token the writing also is very hard to read, it needs a long term soak.

A choice possie

I have spent 2 part days waving the magic wand over two new spots,one is pretty overgrown and fairly hard going but the goodies are there,like Guys spot it needs a herd of sheep to trim the terf a bit,the second spot not to far from the first produced mostly goldies and a few penny's,all up around $60 in $1 and $2 coins plus lots of older penny's,a couple are young victoria heads (still working on the dates),my first gothic florin  (still working on the date on this also),plus the other silvers.The 4 aussie penny's and the military buttons were all close to one another,I suspect this my have been a training ground at some stage.We just had a pretty quick visit to this spot,so it is on my wish list for another visit,the etrac sure is a gun on anything silver and those deeper copper coins,I dont think a day goes by when I dont learn a bit more about its capabilitys.