What to do on a rainy day?

[Goldpick]

Being bored and homebound from detecting due to inclement weather, the missus and I decide to empty out a large jar of small change that had been sitting on the microwave for a few years now. Expecting to find boring old run of the mill decimal coin, I was surprised to see how many foreign coins slip through the net, plus a decent nunber of commemorative coins as well.

This is what we ended up with, lots of commemorative 50 & 20c pieces, 1 x 2Euro (2000), 2 x 1Euro (2002), 1x 1973 10 New Pence, 1 x 1995 Singaporian 50c, 1 x 1982 NZ 5c, 1 x 1997 Malaysian 10 Sen, 1 x 1987 Canadian 10c, and the best of the lot, a beautiful 1957 English sixpence.

Whilst nothing of huge value, some good finds to add to the collection, pity the UK sixpence is copper/nickel vs the Oz silver coin.

 

[Silver_Fox]

Interesting indeed!
What you need is a water proof detector
I've got the Garrett AT Pro International, it loves the rain
There forecasting rain tomorrow but I don't care, still going out!

SF

 

[the duck]

My detectors hate the rain bar one and thats a dig everything machine looks like you had a great day well done

 

[Twapster]

Yep its almost as bad as "what to do if you live in the city and cant go prospecting"....spent some time air testing nuggets on my Exterra 70 with 6 inch dd coil. In prospecting mode 10cm on a half gram nugget and 13cm on a .87 gram nugget. A little bit better than I expected however in real conditions I wouldn't be able to use that setting. 15 minutes of "going off on anything" would have me chucking the detector in the bush!

 

[KeeponDiggin]

i tend to go for a walk along the creeks and see what their doing
helps to pick a dig spot when it drops.
and i earmarked 3 likely spots to have a go at in the next week.

 

[Wally69]

Take the edges off a Moranbah diamond

 

[Wally69]

Polish some relics

 

[Silver_Fox]

I got drenched out in the rain but the ol Garrett did well, this is what I got:

8 x 1/2 Pennies, 14 x Pennies, 2 x 3 Pence and 2 x 6 Pence

SF

 

[Paulmarr]

I got drenched out in the rain but the ol Garrett did well, this is what I got:

8 x 1/2 Pennies, 14 x Pennies, 2 x 3 Pence and 2 x 6 Pence

SF

Hi SF - you can't just tell us ya gotta show us!

 

[Silver_Fox]

Better?

SF

 

[Paulmarr]

Wow that is a lot of copper! And some silver to boot - nice work!

Tell me - do you get as disappointed as we do when we get a large penny or half penny? When we find them on the beach they are toast - and only worth scrap value of copper which is about $2 a kilo ... What do you do with them? I call them brown buggers because they sound off like a banchee and when I retrieve it ... Well ... You can't win them all :lol:

 

[Silver_Fox]

Coins tend to come out of the ground in good decent condition here in Canberra. I was lucky the other week where I pulled out a rare 1946 Penny in very good condition. I did however get 2 really bad ones last week that had growths all over them like they had Leprosy or something!
I put the coins into my collection, the doubles I just have them in Jars. This year I decided to created a spreadsheet with a list of all my pre-decimal finds. I'm curious on what I will get for year, so far I have 217 copper and 69 silvers

SF

 

[rgmhot]

WOW indeed, that is worth getting wet for SF, great work!

 

[Still Looking]

some interesting reading here on what to do on a rainy day....I normally sit inside and curse the rain gods...lol

 

[beach detecting addict]

I normally go detecting in the rain my at pro just loves it. And so do I, as the digging is a lot easier.
cheers Rob