First Time Out In 12 Months, Wife Showed Me Up.

[Yarrum]

Been so busy working on the house and spending time with the young bloke I hadn't put coil to soil for about 12 months. Well I decided it was time to give the two detectors a work out so the wife and I headed up to the old Gold Mining town of Mount Morgan. Dropped the boy off and took the dogs with us.
Mt Morgan, by the time the mine closed in 1981 had produced 225,000kg of gold and 50,000kg of silver .
The mining company still owns the rights to all the land around so any
gold belongs to them. Didn't stop us coinshooting though, which was what I wanted to do anyway. It was 35c/95f and was stinking hot. Our two Pomeranians were just about melting
the poor things, had to wet em down a couple of times.
Anyway I pulled up 3 coins fairly quickly and was trouting (as you do) saying me 3 wife 0. I thought knowing my luck she'll pull out a gold coin and I'll have to eat my words
Not a goldie but she pulled out a 1951 penny which beats my oldest date by 3 years. I was really stoked for her. We ended up with 7 coins between us plus a key and the usual pull tabs. We've got heaps more to cover so we'll head back up there at some point in the near future.
In the pic the penny on the left is hers and the right is an example I already had. The nice shiny 1c and 2c are also examples I own.
Thanks for reading.
HH

 

[lovedigging]

HH, Enjoyed your story and Congrats to your wife

 

[tinpan]

hi , glad to see you getting out, Great pics and HH

tinpan

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice view 8)

Shame the 1951 Penny wasn't British as thats a semi-key date

 

[trikikiwi]

Good stuff Mate
Great pics of all your treasures. I look forward to seeing your future finds from that area.

1951 beats my earliest coin (a Kiwi 6pence) by 2 years.
Cheers, Mike

 

[Deno]

Cool finds. Give my congrats to your wife. Hey, you got to let em win at something every now & then.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Good you got out and made some finds! Even better that wifey went with. Nice pics and HH, Mike

 

[mikewaz]

Nice that you got out together, maybe she'll go easy on you next time.
Mike

 

[terpfan]

Must be great to have a wife who also enjoys the hobby. Thanks for posting!

 

[DigginThePast]

Congrats on the finds. Nice pic of the countryside there, thanks.

 

[Yarrum]

Thanks for all the replies guys, was great to get out after so long.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Looks like you had a great time out in the Aussie sun Be glad when it moves back up here Nice hunt and some nice coins too

 

[Old Fart in TN]

A year is to long to be away from hunting, remember life is short. I enjoyed the story and pictures. Jeff

 

[allen]

nice finds...my wife gets bored in about 5 minutes of detecting...

 

[mlayers]

It nice to heard that you got out. It is going to be about 4months before I get out because os this cold frozen weather. So I sit in the kitchen and do some panning so I can get that rush of finding something...mlayers

 

[seger98]

It happens to the best of us once in a while!

 

[nebstater]

Glad you were able to get out.

I'm pretty sure, that the wife would show you up everyday!

 

[49er]

You have to get out more blok so the wife does not show you up. Give her on her finds from me...WTG