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Not much happening today, hence tried my luck on the bushland surrounds of an old cricket ground that rarely sees much use these day. The location has produced some good silvers in the past, just not in droves though, better than nothing I guess. The spot is also ring pull hell, so it can be a bit of an assualt on the ears at first trying to pickout the deeper targets. True to form the arvo only produced a couple of coins, and at least two silvers to finish off with - the 1945 school issue peace medal was a surprise being my second so far, at least this one doesn't have mower blade marks on it.
Other finds include a large shield button with shank on the rear, and a weird little lead seal with a coat of arms stamped on both sides (turned out to be from an early 1900's Johnny Walker bottle). I always enjoy unearthing those huge Martini-Henry cartridges and associated slugs, shows the area has some age to it.
Other finds include a large shield button with shank on the rear, and a weird little lead seal with a coat of arms stamped on both sides (turned out to be from an early 1900's Johnny Walker bottle). I always enjoy unearthing those huge Martini-Henry cartridges and associated slugs, shows the area has some age to it.
Nice hunt GP, is that a marble or piece of turquoise jewellery?
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Chris Johnson
Heatho said:
Reckon it's a marble, unfortunately damaged on one side, probably hit by the ripper on the fire break.
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Chris Johnson
Just a quick park hunt from tonight, nothing special other than the 1950-51 SA dog tag, and a couple of crusty pennies from 1922 & 1913. The lead object is most likely a table cloth weight.
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You cash in your modern silvers? I tumbled 40 bucks worth, and fed them into a coles self service terminal yesterday. I managed to feed in half of the ones, that I panel beated back into shape as well. Free groceries
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rocketaroo said:You cash in your modern silvers? I tumbled 40 bucks worth, and fed them into a coles self service terminal yesterday. I managed to feed in half of the ones, that I panel beated back into shape as well. Free groceries
Yep, just cashed over $400 in coins after tumbling a whole ton from the last 2 years. Still got more to go that need cleaning up, as I have to bag them for the bank.
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Goldpick said:rocketaroo said:You cash in your modern silvers? I tumbled 40 bucks worth, and fed them into a coles self service terminal yesterday. I managed to feed in half of the ones, that I panel beated back into shape as well. Free groceries
Yep, just cashed over $400 in coins after tumbling a whole ton from the last 2 years. Still got more to go that need cleaning up, as I have to bag them for the bank.
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Do you put any stainless steel media with coins?
Always good to do a cash in, might have to get myself a tumbler as well for cleaning.
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Chris Johnson
caparobertsan said:Goldpick said:rocketaroo said:You cash in your modern silvers? I tumbled 40 bucks worth, and fed them into a coles self service terminal yesterday. I managed to feed in half of the ones, that I panel beated back into shape as well. Free groceries
Yep, just cashed over $400 in coins after tumbling a whole ton from the last 2 years. Still got more to go that need cleaning up, as I have to bag them for the bank.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1695/1509439399_img_20171031_192019.jpg
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Do you put any stainless steel media with coins?
Aquarium gravel goes into mine, cheap and not too harsh on the coins. Steel shot would be fine for modern spendables, though wouldn't use it on anything too delicate or valuable.
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I go every few days....I'm just waiting for store policy to change or an update on the machines that allows 9nly a certain number of coins within the one transaction....Awesome deal though something for nothing.rocketaroo said:You cash in your modern silvers? I tumbled 40 bucks worth, and fed them into a coles self service terminal yesterday. I managed to feed in half of the ones, that I panel beated back into shape as well. Free groceries
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Chris Johnson
Bit of a skill brush up today, hitting a well detected and nail infested church/house site . Wasn't expecting too much, was running the high frequency coil still on 14kHz, though with iron discriminated out, reactivity set on 4, and with the sensitivity and audio repsonse wound back a bit to dull down the iron feedback. Was looking to dig anything breaking through discrimination that wasn't obvious wrap around iron tone, and was surprised on how many targets I could still pull from the flogged ground.
The spoon although reasonably large was sitting sideways in the hole, hence only had a very small cross section to pick upon - just a hint of non-ferrous. Same for the half penny, a slight mumur of something non-ferrous several inches down. The ground is so contaminated that the pinpointer sounds off constantly in the hole, making it quite a chore to locate the actual non-ferrous target. Ratcheting back the pinpointer usually tones down the smaller iron in the hole, revealing the actual target that was initially detected - once the nails are extracted.
Iron masking is so bad here that you often encounter other non-ferrous targets in the same hole whilst searching for the orginal target. Hence why you really need to rescan the hole after each target is removed, along with removing the iron culprits that cause the masking in the first place.
The sixpence was previously missed sitting under the edge of a rotting log (pays to roll them over for a look), the threepence was once again just a repeatable mid tone inbetween other iron targets, didn't actually expect that to pop out being a lot lower tone than expected for such a coin.
The decorative hinged locket came from a hole right next to the half penny, took me a while to pinpoint that amongst all the other crap in the hole.
Amazing how you can train your ears to listen out for such non-descript but repeatable tones from the ground, especially after park hunting for much stronger and obvious high conductors that in comparison nearly blow your ears off. Most wrap around iron was easily identifiable, even the good sounding but faint iron - a quick pinpoint will usually show something much larger at depth not worth digging. Might not be a 100 coins, though still fun to pick up some silver in what is a challenging environment.
The spoon although reasonably large was sitting sideways in the hole, hence only had a very small cross section to pick upon - just a hint of non-ferrous. Same for the half penny, a slight mumur of something non-ferrous several inches down. The ground is so contaminated that the pinpointer sounds off constantly in the hole, making it quite a chore to locate the actual non-ferrous target. Ratcheting back the pinpointer usually tones down the smaller iron in the hole, revealing the actual target that was initially detected - once the nails are extracted.
Iron masking is so bad here that you often encounter other non-ferrous targets in the same hole whilst searching for the orginal target. Hence why you really need to rescan the hole after each target is removed, along with removing the iron culprits that cause the masking in the first place.
The sixpence was previously missed sitting under the edge of a rotting log (pays to roll them over for a look), the threepence was once again just a repeatable mid tone inbetween other iron targets, didn't actually expect that to pop out being a lot lower tone than expected for such a coin.
The decorative hinged locket came from a hole right next to the half penny, took me a while to pinpoint that amongst all the other crap in the hole.
Amazing how you can train your ears to listen out for such non-descript but repeatable tones from the ground, especially after park hunting for much stronger and obvious high conductors that in comparison nearly blow your ears off. Most wrap around iron was easily identifiable, even the good sounding but faint iron - a quick pinpoint will usually show something much larger at depth not worth digging. Might not be a 100 coins, though still fun to pick up some silver in what is a challenging environment.
Really showing your skills with your chosen tool. Good results.
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
ktmman said:
Thanks mate, this site is conveniently the closest early 1900's/late 1800's spot to home, though really had to drag my butt away from home and get active swinging (lazy bones).
Sometimes it's the "want" to find something good that makes all the difference to the end result (ie. attitude).
I like that locket cover :Y:
Your absolutely right about attitude ....
Those types of sites require extreme patience and determination
Your absolutely right about attitude ....
Those types of sites require extreme patience and determination
