This is a 1925/3 shilling, still a bit hard to tell even from this photo.
maybe it's the inner edge of the lower part of the 5, and maybe a little over the top edge of the flat at the top of the 5. 8)
Thanks Santa, it is a strange spot, can't find any info on the site yet it must have been popular 100 years ago.
Just a small cricket field in the bush,with a LOT of beaver tails to wade through.
And on the third day of Christmas(Holidays) my honeyhole gave to meeeee.....
After hour 2 and only having 2 x $2 and some BB's I was almost ready to give up until the first silver of the day popped up,
and it was a Florin. The silvers just kept coming after that.
Good to see the old timers were well off enough to shoot perfectly good sixpences for fun.
Cracking site you've got there, must have been well and truly overlooked by other detectorists judging by the amount of silver coming out of the ground, great stuff! Sixpence target practice?
Thanks Goldpick, the silver to copper ratio seems way out of proportion.
The old cane/dairy farmers in the area must have been making good money to drop so much silver on the ground,but i'm sure glad they did.
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what an excellent hunt ! 8)
Bet the old boy was a great shot (or old girl), but I recon the young uns fingers woulda smarted for hours after holding up that 1928 6d ,.... mind you, a really really good shot woulda had em foist up a 3d I recon (ha).
Probly took the shot from a hundred yards too !