Nice morning out at a local school. Enough modern stuff for a bottle of red and enough old stuff to make it interesting. Three pennys , a half penny, a shilling and the smallest coin is a 1924 threepence. The fact that the threepence is 92.5% silver helps when detecting those tiny coins. 1 and 2 cent coins are no longer legal tender in Australia.
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F2 old and the new
- Thread starter Alimo88
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woodwizard
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congrats on a good days digging
Its interesting seeing what you find in Aussie... its similar here in New Zealand, though I was wondering where I would find so many older Australian pennies.. until I found out that New Zealand didn't have its own currency till after 1933. Actually found two pennies this last weekend both cut.. amongst a bunch of other stuff. ( i have photos on my blog.)
@bthom I have a nice little detector book/ field guide here at home. It has a great section on old Australian coins with their sizes and alloy composition as a function of date. It also has a great section on precious metal alloys and their markings and a great section on the conductivity series. Are you using the F2?
We have bought an F2 (with the three coils) and an f4 ..so we will have a bunch of coils to play with, which are currently sitting in customs here in Auckland, so hopefully in a day or two we will be away. Until now I have been using some cheap Chinese thing I got for $100.. in less than three months we have pulled just over $200 modern kiwi money 1 silver and two gold rings.. and a collection of old money and foreign coins.. its been fun.
yep .. fleabay from the states.... the f2 has arrived .. the f4 is in customs.. .. they want more money from me for that one... had a quick go with the f2..., your comment about me being in for a treat... man is that true, it was a real eye opener,bits of the garden which I had thought hunted out with the chinese thing...signals everywhere, real ones too (I checked)... now I cant wait for my f4 and really learn it.
Found a NZ two dollar today, came in at 65. I did a huge range of air tests with the 4 inch coil over a plastic stool i have. I seperated the "coil and shaft" from the "main body and shaft"
at the cam join and had the readout sticking out of my golf bag. try some silver rings and different carat gold rings and all your NZ coin. and pull tabs oh I have a hint
when I first got the machine I wrote all the coin numbers on a small sheet of paper and double sided taped it to the top of the detector head. good luck
at the cam join and had the readout sticking out of my golf bag. try some silver rings and different carat gold rings and all your NZ coin. and pull tabs oh I have a hint
when I first got the machine I wrote all the coin numbers on a small sheet of paper and double sided taped it to the top of the detector head. good luck
yes... when I get the 11"dd with the f4 I will do a big test with the four coils with both machines..and a range of targets should be interesting. I like your idea with the list and the numbers taped to the unit until you learn... i have a feeling I'll learn pretty fast... there seems to be plenty of places around where i can to go, and judging by the ease of finding the old pennys , not hunted yet..perfect.