Digger_O'Dell
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Hi all,
Went on a short hunt Tuesday after work at the old zoo and found an unusual silver- a 1943 Australian 3 pence! Its quite small, very good condition, and turns out its .925 silver. Here's the link to the specs: http://www.allcoinvalues.com/australian-coins-and-notes/1943-australian-threepence-value.html
Thursday I went on a road trip about 2.5 hours across the state attempting to find some place that wasn't hit. My ex wanted to come along and detect too so ended up about 6 hours late leaving home, the lost a lot of detecting time listening to rants about the heat, humidity, etc. I suppose most can relate to this! :lol:
The first little hamlet I had great hopes for. It has a lot of history and has an old school house at the corner of the park. But as it turns out it had been dug up and refilled in the recent past. Only one area between a couple trees gave up a rosie and a couple wheats, a 1919 and a 1929. I also found what looked to be an irrigation nozzel still in its plastic tube.
So off to the next town. Once again delayed because she was hungry. But around dusk we finally made the park. Almost immediately I started finding deep wheaties, and ended up with 4 of them before dark and a long ride home. But, at least this town warrants a return trip soon, as it also has a couple more old parks nearby.
Lastly, I had about an hour before work so I stopped at the old zoo once more. No keeper coins this time, but I did find another watch, an old looking copper bracelet with 3 indian thunderbird engraved on it, and some junker jewelry. In total I also got $8.86 in clad.
Went on a short hunt Tuesday after work at the old zoo and found an unusual silver- a 1943 Australian 3 pence! Its quite small, very good condition, and turns out its .925 silver. Here's the link to the specs: http://www.allcoinvalues.com/australian-coins-and-notes/1943-australian-threepence-value.html
Thursday I went on a road trip about 2.5 hours across the state attempting to find some place that wasn't hit. My ex wanted to come along and detect too so ended up about 6 hours late leaving home, the lost a lot of detecting time listening to rants about the heat, humidity, etc. I suppose most can relate to this! :lol:
The first little hamlet I had great hopes for. It has a lot of history and has an old school house at the corner of the park. But as it turns out it had been dug up and refilled in the recent past. Only one area between a couple trees gave up a rosie and a couple wheats, a 1919 and a 1929. I also found what looked to be an irrigation nozzel still in its plastic tube.
So off to the next town. Once again delayed because she was hungry. But around dusk we finally made the park. Almost immediately I started finding deep wheaties, and ended up with 4 of them before dark and a long ride home. But, at least this town warrants a return trip soon, as it also has a couple more old parks nearby.
Lastly, I had about an hour before work so I stopped at the old zoo once more. No keeper coins this time, but I did find another watch, an old looking copper bracelet with 3 indian thunderbird engraved on it, and some junker jewelry. In total I also got $8.86 in clad.
