Been over a month since my last hunt, been itching to get out there, that being said, took this hunt pretty easy, only dug about 6 holes.
Found 2 bucks, a spoon and an old toy car. After doing a little bit of research it looks as if the car is a Dinky toy, modeled after the Speed Of The Wind car from the 1930s.
We probably did 10 hours worth of hunting over those three days, most of which was at the large sports field. Our best finds were the two pieces of jewelry, our first ever, a silver pin and a junk ring.
Not quite sure what to do with the silver pin, I don't think it's worth much, but I guess it could be easy to find the owner, what would you guys do?
We found loads of the old decimal coinage, me jars getting pretty full now, found it strange that we found no pre-decimals at all, I'm guessing the field may have been hunted out back in the day, though we really didn't cover much and passed on a lot of targets, the place was full of junk.
I'm hoping to get back to my secret spot very soon, seemed to be nothing but old coins and $$$, the parks right next to a little row of shops, I think that's what's making it so good for coins.
Three Days Worth of Finds.
Silver Pin With Maybe a Gem and Alisa Written on it.
Spent the other day at a local park metal detecting and it was probably the best hunt I've been on so far, mostly because it was just a great day at a park, the finds weren't so great. I went about midday and was expecting the park to be busy and it was, I drew a lot of attention with the strange looking machine dangling from my arm, all feedback was positive and full of interest.
It was my best coin day so far, most I've found on one hunt, though nothing to write home about. I'm a little concerned that I'm not finding a lot of the smaller pre-decimals, they're either not there, which is fine or the F2 is not picking them up, guess I just have to do some more testing.
The first 4 photos below are from my backyard, the toy handcuffs are my favorite non-coin find so far, the rest are finds from the park.
Toy Handcuffs.
Toy handcuffs, Crescent Toy Co, Made In Gt Britain.
Haven't been out much, the weather's been pretty shite, though I think my latest finds will keep me pretty satisfied for awhile, just nice to find some older coins in my backyard.
One thing I didn't expect when beginning this game was the amount of cutlery I would find, most of it's been silver plate as well, but it would be very nice to find some sterling.
I'm pretty chuffed with the little bottle I found as well, it's kind of perked my interest in bottles now, though I really can't seem to find anything about it, don't think it's very old, but it would be cool to know what it was used for.
I really don't know when I'll be back out, though if the circumstances arise I'm really keen to get back to the beach, so hopefully my next video will be from there.
1920 British Penny Reverse.
1920 British Penny Obverse.
1954 New Zealand Penny Reverse.
1954 New Zealand Penny Obverse.
1941 New Zealand Half Penny Reverse.
1941 New Zealand Half Penny Obverse.
1958 New Zealand Half Penny Reverse.
1958 New Zealand Half Penny Obverse.
1935? British Half Penny Reverse.
1935? British Half Penny Obverse.
Insignia Plate E.P.N.S A1 WP Handle.
Small Nondescript Bottle, anyone know what it was used for?
Had another great hunt at the beach today, got my first silvers with the F2. We picked up where we left off in the last video and detected along a corroding bank that seemed to be releasing it's lost treasure.
One of my best days out metal detecting, we were hunting at a busy entrance to this beach. I decided to hunt with sensitivity at 4 and 5 bars on the Fisher F2 and it seemed to make a world of difference in identifying targets, I had been using low sensitivity based on a few things I had read online about hunting at the beach, turns out you shouldn't believe everything you read.
$10 bucks in Cash.
Boswell, Hatfield & Co. LTD, Mary St Sheffield, Firth Stanless Knife.
Got my first threepence and British penny on this hunt as well as a Fijian 5 cent piece, the penny is my oldest coin so far at 1917.
1917 British penny, I think.
1961 Threepence.
Fijian 5 Cent.
Got these on my latest hunt which resulted in a lot of junk, no coins and I haven't been able to find much information on the spoon and key pictured below, by the way that's my first key ever.
