That's a magnificent treasure chest Silver. Well done!
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Ok,...internet running low so here goes yesterdays hunt and maybe me for the rest of the month.
The decimals from the day,...a whole 13 cents.
And I found this object(not sure of its purpose) with no writing on it and it looks like it was used as a washer,...so maybe it was to secure a coms cord to something ?
I found a few half pennies in my travels yesterday as well(not all in the one spot though)
so starting from the oldest one first
1891
1920
1951
And a 1945 penny
But of course it's the coinspill finds that you have all been waiting to hear about,....so without further ado
They were directly under the steel fence and were a bit harder to find,...so I dug and did a pro pointer search to get all three of them.
still,....I wouldn't have got them without the trusty old ACE250 in the first place.
so here are the close ups
1943 1/2 penny
1952 3d
and the 1946 shilling to top off the spill
so there you go,...on those two hunts on the one coin spill,...all in that little area, I scored 13 coins with 6 of them being silver.
The decimals from the day,...a whole 13 cents.
And I found this object(not sure of its purpose) with no writing on it and it looks like it was used as a washer,...so maybe it was to secure a coms cord to something ?
I found a few half pennies in my travels yesterday as well(not all in the one spot though)
so starting from the oldest one first
1891
1920
1951
And a 1945 penny
But of course it's the coinspill finds that you have all been waiting to hear about,....so without further ado
They were directly under the steel fence and were a bit harder to find,...so I dug and did a pro pointer search to get all three of them.
still,....I wouldn't have got them without the trusty old ACE250 in the first place.
so here are the close ups
1943 1/2 penny
1952 3d
and the 1946 shilling to top off the spill
so there you go,...on those two hunts on the one coin spill,...all in that little area, I scored 13 coins with 6 of them being silver.
You'll be opening you're own pre decimal museum soon mate - great finds.
Jaros
Jaros
Love the condition of the shilling!
Nice work
Nice work
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
Nice score, thanks to the Ace's ability to get rediculously close to steel objects, looks like it has paid off. What are you using to clean your more toasted coppers with, just a decent scrub? I'm just going through cleaning up some of my less desirable toasted coins.
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I just used the green plastic kitchen brillo pad on those few coppers GP, so we could see them a bit better than the six pennies the other day, I usually only wash them and when they dry on the outside window sill(months later usually) I throw them all in a big bottle together.
Goldpick said:Nice score, thanks to the Ace's ability to get rediculously close to steel objects, looks like it has paid off. What are you using to clean your more toasted coppers with, just a decent scrub? I'm just going through cleaning up some of my less desirable toasted coins.
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Nice find. Wouldnt it have been topped off with a florin or two in that coin spill
Northoz
Mark
Pennies from heaven,good stuff!
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Darn, ....Now I'd better go and look again,....you know,....just in case of the florins.
Actually I've looked over it fairly well,...and would say that when it happened(pre lawnmowers maybe, or at least not everyone had one as scythes were cheaper to run) they were hard to find if they were known to be lost,...I can imagine the mad scramble through the grass,...retrieving all the big florins and crowns, but having the hard to see coppers and the threepences bedding down further with every shift of the tufts in that mad elusive search for the rest,...even that nice shiny shilling must have avoided the tears and grasping hands,...only to be left for fifty years or so for me to find,...They probably went home head down,...knowing that their story would not be believed, ..and that that most terrible flogging that comes with loosing money would soon fall heavily upon them.
Actually I've looked over it fairly well,...and would say that when it happened(pre lawnmowers maybe, or at least not everyone had one as scythes were cheaper to run) they were hard to find if they were known to be lost,...I can imagine the mad scramble through the grass,...retrieving all the big florins and crowns, but having the hard to see coppers and the threepences bedding down further with every shift of the tufts in that mad elusive search for the rest,...even that nice shiny shilling must have avoided the tears and grasping hands,...only to be left for fifty years or so for me to find,...They probably went home head down,...knowing that their story would not be believed, ..and that that most terrible flogging that comes with loosing money would soon fall heavily upon them.
Northoz
Mark
If only they would have known,Silver,that one day, you would reap what they had sown. :lol:
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