The last three trips to the beach

I have had verying success at the beach,some areas have been washed out revealing goodies washed out of the sand banks,but also there are areas that are just plain bare,still I had a ball in all around 250 coins most are the older decimals,but also about $45 in goldies,the rings are 2 silvers,one stainless,the others el cheapo's.

 One picture shows the variety of junk on the beach,not good on bare feet,the old lead toy is a cracker,even if it is a bit damaged,it came from an old local park I forgot to post earlier.

'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.

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.......