Sportsground finds

[Harry_Morant]

After getting about $220 in coins and $300 worth of rings and jewellry from my local sportsfield I thought I'd prospect another. I only did a very small area and picked up $33 in a few hours and a couple of other bits and pieces. I had one chap wander over for the customery "what cha doing" chat. Nice enough guy but I realised he wasn't all there (not quite the full quid, a slice short of a sandwich, a few roos missing in the top paddock). After explaining that no I couldn't find a $20 note with my metal detector he suddenly changed the subject to the types of birds I'd seen - okaaaay back away slowly.

Aside from the clad I picked up a token, a Saint Christopher medal engraved on the back with "Love Donna" and a nice fat silver ring.

I stuck all my collection of dirty coins which I've dug in the last eight weeks in a tumbler to clean them up (99% are only worth face value). When I took them out there were a few suprises. My favorite was a 1967 New Zealand Shilling/10c coin. In 67 the Kiwis (New Zealanders) were changing over to the Decimal system with their coins and had both the old and new denomination on the coin. The other is a yet to be identified 1 cent coin from one of the South Pacific nations.

I've also dug up recently an Anniversary of Federation medallion which was given to all Australian schoolchildren and a nice silver skull. It never fails to amaze me what is buried waiting to be found.

 

[Harry_Morant]

After tumble finds

 

[Harry_Morant]

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[ps_jb]

you have found right place for searching

 

[ModernMiner]

Man, I wish I could hit playgrounds like that! Awesome finds. Funny story too. Thanks for sharing.
-MM-

 

[Harry_Morant]

You guys should petition your local congressman (I saw it in the movies so it must be true) and get them to introduce $1 and $2 coins - makes a huge difference to the end of day haul rather than digging pennies etc.

 

[tinpan]

Hi harry,Nice haul of rings and clad that equals way more cash than all those pre-decimal coppers i find.Which by the way a good one is worth about 10cents lol

tinpan

 

[Moonshadow]

That's a great spot! Sounds like lots of fun to hunt. Keeps you busy!!

HH,
Moon

 

[ran-man]

nice finds

 

[Nana40]

WoW Harry! You must be the only one hunting in your area! 8) GREAT finds! AND that St. Christopher must be mine!

Donna

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Great finds Harry, congrats, that's a lot of clad! Gotta love those 1 & 2 Dollar coins. HH, Mike

 

[Harry_Morant]

So many sports fields so few people with detectors

Heres a picture of the fields I've been hunting. Some trends I've noticed with hunting sports fields - more coins where the grass is greener as people sit on the softest grass, under the shade of trees. Coins quickly sink from view on the green stuff whereas areas of sparse cover leave obvious coins on the surface where they readlily get picked up.

Its worth taking note of the types of sports played there. Spectators and teams sit in different places depending on the sport. These ovals are used for soccer and softball. Softball players and spectators sit at the corners of the fields (the diamonds) and soccer players and spectators sit in a more central position alongside a field. Don't discount detecting on the playing fields themselves as long as you are really carefull not to leave unsightly or poorly filled holes. The good thing about the playing area is that there is generally very little junk on them as the eating and drinking ( and rubbish) is usually on the sidelines. They are also better watered making it much easier to cut a nice neat plug which goes back in the same hole and is all but undetectable.

 

[Nashoba]

Hey I see a hole you forgot to fill up in your excitement.
~Nash~
Sweet digs man!

 

[goldencoin]

Nice!

HH
-GC

 

[coolcash2004]

COOL!

-CC