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Found a Aussie penny from the first year of minting.

M

Mick in Dubbo

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Took the XS out for a bit of a spin yesterday to a site that I haven't hit for a while. I tend to hunt modern coins and have quite a fetish for the $1 and $2 coins, but as this site is fairly old by Aussie standards (about a 120years from memory) I decided to keep an eye out for the pre decimals.
It turned out to be my best hunt with the Explorer to date (mostly a park hunter) with $41.85 in modern stuff and 2 pre decimals. One is a 1949 half penny and the best one is a 1916 penny. This was the first year that they were minted in Australia. We have them pre-dating that, but they were minted in England. This is also the oldest coin that I've found, mostly because I tend to hunt modern coins.
The penny is on the top right corner with the half penny below it.
Mick Evans.
P.S. Sorry that I can't get a closer shot, but the camera and I aren't getting on too well at the moment.
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Congratulations on a very successful hunt Mick. :clapping:
We even find some Aussie large pennies (1941) up here in Oregon
every once in a while. They have a beautiful green Patina when
we do find them. HH and thanks for sharing your finds.
Gold Nuggets :wiggle:
 
That's the nice catch with you guys with the Euro coins, you can get some decent cash just from swinging the coil, all we get for modern clad is pennies, dimes and an occasional quarter.
 
Thanks.
There are also moden 1 and 2 cent pieces right beside the penny. The 2 cents are the larger coins with the 1 cent pieces being the smallest coins at right underneath. A big differnce in size.
We are pretty lucky to have the high denomination coins in common cerculation. If you look closely at the $1 coins, you will see quite a variety of designs on them. There seem to be a few new designs released each year.:thumbup::ausflag:
I had another go at photographing the penny and half penny using my son's camera. Still not real good, but better.
Mick Evans.
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Those 2 cent coins are a pain in the you-know-what!! I dug 19 of them today - they ring loud and bright on my Cibola. My pile of low denomination decimals gets bigger every day!

Nice goldies Mick - I love bringing home a pile of those!

Steve
 
Nice finds, especially that early penny. That must have a pretty low mintage. Also, to find over $40 in modern coins in one day is amazing. Best I ever did was about $16 US after hitting a weekend carnival site (I was hoping to find jewelry that would have fallen off when people were on the rides but it was not to be). Keep up the good work and happy hunting.
 
I think I would be hitting everything in sight just to dig all them $1 and $2 Coins. I wonder what a 12 hour hunt would yield??? Bet a person could break the $100 mark no problem. Now that is a ton of loose change and worth going out and finding it. Congrats to a very successful hunt Mick! :thumbup: And congrats on the first minting issue of the Aussie Coin. Continued Success, Good Luck and HH to you and hope you bring in a ton more pocket change!:detecting:
 
Funny you should ask. When I was in Sydney last Christmas, I got out for a 12 hour hunt and achieved my first $100+ day ($11:geek:! It was literally a non stop hunt where I started at 5:45AM and finished around 5:30PM. I must have had the detecting bug bad that day, as I didn't eat breakfast or lunch and didn't feel hungry all day. I even ran out of water (it was 35 degrees Celsius) 2 hours before I quite. Although I was really thirsty, I kept going for an hour longer than I thought wise. I was trying to crack the $110 mark. I thought I was just short of it (less than a $1 but do you think that I could find that last couple of coins to take me over the line. I had to abandon in the end as I was starting to get a strong headache from lack of fluids. Paid the price that night with a bout of heat stress. It took a couple of weeks to get over it, but recounting my finds that day revealed that I had exceeded that amount and had a couple of pre-decimal and foreign coins!
If I'm in Sydney, my average hourly find rate is around $11 an hour. As I live in a country town 400kms away from there, my normal find rate varies between $3 to $6 an hour. This hunt was only 3 hours long.
I dropped in on a detecting shop over on the coast on Saturday as I was coming home and the chap there was telling me about a few fellows he knows that use the E-Trac. They hunt the beaches regularly and average from $50 to $65 each hunt. From what I've heard in general, that's about average.
Mick Evans.
 
great finds Mick those older pre decimal coins are quite hard to find :thumbup: i still get a thrill when i see the big one penny with the ring around it i start thinking 1930-1930 come on 1930 then i clean them off & find any thing but 1930 :laugh: i love finding the 1c-2c coins as usually this means there's pre decimals hiding there some where, last weekend i found 51 of em little suckers i chuck em in a 15lt bucket it"s about 1/3 full now.
you better be careful diggin those oldies you might catch the silver bug & it"s real hard to shake :heh:
lazyaussie
 
You might just get lucky with a 1930. I've heard that there are a few other dates that are quite valuable as well. I'm not sure which years though. A little tip if you want to get a 1930. back then it was considered good luck if you put a penny under the sill of a window sill (of the year the house was built). So if you are lucky enough to come across a derelict house of that year, who knows, you might just get lucky!
I'm starting to get a bit of an itch for silver. I've been so distracted by the gioldies, I haven't been looking for silver. I've never found a Florin before, so I'll make it a goal to get one before years end. I'm heading back to the same spot on Saturday, so I'll see how I go. The question is, will I take the Explorer or the GTI?:shrug::devil:
Mick Evans.
 
I love diggin' up the older style pennies too - they seem to hold up pretty well compared to the design issued after coronation. There are 1930 pennies out there...somewhere!

Such a buzz finding silver - I only got my first florin a few weeks ago - and I dug 2 really nice threepences just this week.

Check out my post on the Tesoro forum re the 1797 cartwheel penny I found recently.

Steve
 
Does your camera have a macro feature? (often marked by a flower icon)
It can help greatly with the pics.:detecting:

Nice going,
Eu
 
That's one heck of a hunt to bring home over $100 in Pocket Change!:surprised: Hope you keep popping tons of that stuff out and look forward to your next post. Continued Success, Good Luck and HH to you.:detecting:
 
Yeah. I used that featiure, but I think that I've 'adjusted' something that I shouldn't have. I think that I'd better read the manual.:devil: It's a pretty fancy camera and I'm not familiar with it yet. Kinda like getting to know detectors.
Mick Evans.
 
Finding that first Florin would have been a great moment. I'm sure others will follow now. I noticed that when I got my X-Terra a few years back, all those higher hits were all iron or other rubbish, so I reached a point that I ignored them.:nono: I can see that I'm going to have to retrain myself to start investigating them again. My son has a descent collection of them. He doesn't mind my borrowing them to practice on.:thumbup: I have pulled up a few shilling, sixpence's and three pence's though. I'm looking forward to finding silver.
That cartwheel penny was a fantastic find! I'm yet to find anything pre 1900. I did find a gun powder flask that was from about the 1880's though a few years ago.
Keep up the great hunts. I sure wish I was in your part of the world. it sure would improve my find rate.:wiggle: I did get to Newcastle last week though.
Mick Evans.
 
nice one...would love to see a closeup
 
good luck with finding a florin Mick yeah it"s a good feeling digging up our biggest silver coin.
so far in 5 years i"v found 40 florins 12 are from 1947.
lazyaussie
 
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