trikikiwi
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Hello to everybody,
I have managed to hunt two beaches in the last two days and it was a pleasure getting out, even if it was only for about two and a half hours in total.
Spring has sprung here at last. Well, maybe just 'officially' - because a weather bomb is about to dump around 500mm (Yes, half a metre) of rain on our Fiordland Region over the next couple of days. A not too uncommon occurence down there.
The first beach I hit on Monday was Kohimarama Beach, on the Waitemata Harbour, close to central Auckland.
My 'panorama' didn't quite work, but you can see the majestic volcano Rangitoto which popped it's head above the sea about 600 years ago and now guards our inner harbour. It's a 'must do' to climb to the top if you are ever in Auckland.
On Tuesday, I accompanied Number 2 son, James, on a driving lesson and of course, we had to drive past and stop at another local, more southerly beach, Maraetai.
Maraetai means 'Meeting place by the sea' and this pic which son James took, says it all.
Most of my finds (I have excluded all the crappe) were from the first beach; recent NZ coins, a pewter bracelet, my Rock-it, which has been ID'd as a nose cone from a cap bomb and my favorite - a 1953 NZ 6 penny piece.
That was found very deep, at about 10 inches, beneath the layer of recover sand. Unfortunately it's later than 1946 and therefore Nickel-Copper rather than 50% silver.
I have included my 'lucky dime' in the pic for size comparison.
Here's what the 6 pence once looked like.
HH everyone,
Cheers, Mike
I have managed to hunt two beaches in the last two days and it was a pleasure getting out, even if it was only for about two and a half hours in total.
Spring has sprung here at last. Well, maybe just 'officially' - because a weather bomb is about to dump around 500mm (Yes, half a metre) of rain on our Fiordland Region over the next couple of days. A not too uncommon occurence down there.
The first beach I hit on Monday was Kohimarama Beach, on the Waitemata Harbour, close to central Auckland.
My 'panorama' didn't quite work, but you can see the majestic volcano Rangitoto which popped it's head above the sea about 600 years ago and now guards our inner harbour. It's a 'must do' to climb to the top if you are ever in Auckland.
On Tuesday, I accompanied Number 2 son, James, on a driving lesson and of course, we had to drive past and stop at another local, more southerly beach, Maraetai.
Maraetai means 'Meeting place by the sea' and this pic which son James took, says it all.
Most of my finds (I have excluded all the crappe) were from the first beach; recent NZ coins, a pewter bracelet, my Rock-it, which has been ID'd as a nose cone from a cap bomb and my favorite - a 1953 NZ 6 penny piece.
That was found very deep, at about 10 inches, beneath the layer of recover sand. Unfortunately it's later than 1946 and therefore Nickel-Copper rather than 50% silver.
I have included my 'lucky dime' in the pic for size comparison.
Here's what the 6 pence once looked like.
HH everyone,
Cheers, Mike
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I guess people travel the globe and lose coins everywhere. Nice find and pics. When it's spring down under it won't be long till were in the grips of the nasty man called "old man Winter" 
