Around the traps with the sovereign

[rocketaroo]

I will have my day, dont you two worry about that! and for the readers.....I would gone today, but my young son has been pretty sick last few days. Got him to the docs, steriods, and antibiotics. Hopefully back to school next week

 

[Sandta]

Got out for a couple of hours this morning to a park not too far away
Got a nice 1927 half penny

$20 in goldies , a 308 cartridge , half a dozen BB's and a bad arse monkey face badge

 

[silver]

chewy ?

 

[Ramjet]

He doesn't look happy.

 

[TheSilentBugler]

Nice face, thought I'd turned on the front camera of my phone for a sec.

 

[rocketaroo]

scarey ape!

 

[Sandta]

I AM SOOOO EXCITED
I went for a drive late this arvo to a spot i had been eyeing off for a while
It was pretty well dark when i started and i didnt have a tourch
I was hoping to find a few pre decimals and i did ...however they were all pennys and halves 8.(
UNTIL I GOT HOME AND HAD A LOOK PROPERLY
Half pennys - 1911,'47,'2x'48 &'51
Pennys - 1917,'22,'27,'34,'38,'39,'43,'45 &'52

I ended up with 3 very exciting finds

There quite dirty and i dont want to rush cleaning them so im not totally sure of identification
The first can see kangaroo and emu
The second i can make out holloways and i think 1857 is date
The third i cant see any details but its clearly much thicker and heavier than anything else so im hoping its a cartwheel penny

 

[silver]

Happy dance going on here for you Sandta,... your move was the best move,.... ever. :lol:

 

[Wally69]

Great hunt Sandta, love those tokens

 

[Ramjet]

Outstanding Sandta very nice.

 

[Goldpick]

Certainly would have been a surprise pulling those out after the hunt, looks like you are on to a real good spot, well done.

Hopefully the unidentified tokens/coins will clean up a bit to enable identification, as you mentioned, one coin is definitely a Holloway's token, and the one with he kangaroo and emu should also be a penny token, possibly similar to the picture below.

Not sure about the other one being a cartwheel, they are pretty large both in diameter and thickness, even more so than an 1857 penny which is much thicker than the later ones.

The Cartwheel should be 41mm diameter and 5mm thick, whereas a pre 1859 penny will be around 34mm in diameter, and about 4mm thick. Happy hunting.

 

[Sandta]

Thanks GP ... thats it , thats exactly the same

 

[rocketaroo]

awesome, grats

 

[Sandta]

I went for a drive back to the same spot as last night to complete the area
4 pennys & 5 half pennys
1929,'34,'38 & 2x'41 half pennys
1919 ,'34,'44 pennys

If you were thinkng thats the dates of only 3 pennys
Heres the fourth date coin....

Ive only rinsed it under the tap , should clean up pretty good with a toothbrush

 

[silver]

Goo ooood score,... now they start at around $55 for something you can hardly see, so out of the ground should at least equal that,.. hopefully a lot more.

 

[Goldpick]

Congrats on the key date, third rarest penny out there. Now for the 1925 & 1930!

 

[Sandta]

Congrats on the key date, third rarest penny out there. Now for the 1925 & 1930!

Ill go back and dig them up this arvo :lol:

 

[Sandta]

I drove all the way back to the spot for a third visit yesterday arvo
This time , working at 90 degrees to previous visits, i dug all the iffy type signals.
Those being the ones where you hear a snippet of the right sound which breaks up the more you try to home in on it.
And i got some results ...

1927 penny ,1942 sixpence and one of the threepences were each next to something else screwing up a clear signal
The other threepences was found at a different spot
This is most of the rubbish from those 3 hunts

Lead in top right corner , brass/copper bottom right and mostly aluminium canslaw and other crap on left

 

[rocketaroo]

great result, from diggy the iffys

 

[Ramjet]

Nice result. I find the thrips can be iffy on the Pro.