2.5 MEN GO COIN SHOOTING PART 2

Here we are back at the coin shooting field, me and my son James. James is using the Vista Gold. I've actually read the instructions now so I know how to set it up and he's got a good signal here so we've dug down. It's almost to it and we're going to see what it is. Nearly there, oh yeah! It's an old penny, it'll give a great signal. Very good, can you see the date on it at the bottom, just near the thumb? It'll say 19 something. 1916. 1916. Pretty old, George V penny. And I've also got a signal on the E-track over here. I've dug down, and by the looks of it, we've got another. What's that one? That's George VI penny on edge at approximately 9 inches deep. It still gave a pretty good signal, even though it was on edge. James has got a good signal here with a Vista Gold. Keep on going over it, James, just to see where it is. Okay. All right, so we want to be about here. Now, I haven't checked this with the E-track. Really, there should be no need to. We've got quite a high level of discrimination dialled in on the gold. So, hopefully this should be a good target. The soil looks nice. You seem to get this sort of nice looking soil when there's a coin there, so I'm hoping it's a coin. That looks like a coin ball to me. Let's see what's in it then. Another big penny. Another George V one. Ugh. We're heading right up the top of this hill now to go into some pasture land that used to get ploughed years ago. God, I'm unfit. We were detected up there the last time we were here and we found a couple of hammered coins, something that we've never done in this bottom field that we've just walked through. We really came here today, right tonight, to go to the top fields, so getting those few coins in the bottom field was just a bit of a bonus. There, we're up the top now, just out of this little bit of wood is the fields that we're going in. See what sort of a, well you can't really see, but when these trees weren't here this would have been a hell of a good vantage point. We're right down into the valley. Just got a signal reading 10.38 there and I've just pulled up the biggest musket ball that I've ever seen. It's massive. Put it in your hand James. Let's give some idea of scale. It's like a little cannonball lad. We've been joined by Jimmy. Well actually we were joined about an hour and a half ago by Jimmy but none of us have managed to find anything so there isn't much footage. Not far from the musket ball. Jimmy has got what looks like a coin ball. Maybe a button, just the same. And it looks like a big Big monkey button. That's a big, dirty big button. No need to yell at one of them. Still, there we are. Better than out, I suppose. It is. This is quite a nice button that Jimmy found. Well, it's still quite a nice design on it. Turn it over, please, James. Let's have a look. Pretty good condition. Jimmy's got a possible coin ball here, or a button ball. Button as the case may be, I think. That's a button. Yep. Surely all those people that were wearing buttons would have been having coins dropped as well. Jimmy's got another signal here. Says it's a good one. It's obviously dug pretty close to it. Another button, like. God, it's black. There's a coin. Whose is that one? As good as my eyes aren't, because you might even see better on the camera what it is. Yeah, I love a look with my eyes, good eyesight, which is remarkable really when you think about it. Thank It's a young head Victoria. God, it's worn though, hellish worn. you Oh yeah, you can't see a bit of detail from over here. very Jimmy's just found a coin, we've just dropped back down into this coin shooting field much. because we weren't getting many signals up in the top pasture. I've also got a signal, a little threepenny bit. A bit? Yeah, it looks like a pound coin, doesn't it? Yeah. If you just see that bit there. Let's have a look then. It does look like a pound coin, doesn't it? Yeah, it's about as thick as a pound coin. James has just found a coin with a vista gold. I think it's a... Yeah, it's a modern two shillings. Modern two shillings. If that was an older one, it'd be called a florin. And it'd be silver. Yeah, that's what I thought it was. I thought it was a florin. Same size. Well, it is still a florin, but unfortunately it's a newish one. Let's put this back and we'll find a silver one, shall we? Well we're just about to come away. I've got a signal, a very iffy signal and I dug a, what looks like a George V sixpence. So I was beginning to think we weren't going to get any silver for the day and we have got silver. Get in. Yeah get in indeed, there you go. See it's got the lion on it. Well it's almost dark now and I've just dug up a coin ball. It just remains to be seen what sort of coin's in it. Have you found it? Yeah, she said. Is it a half penny? It is, yeah. Too dark to see what it is though, but it's another coin anyway. Three buttons there, this is between me and James, a few old pennies, trapped me a bit, a couple of half pennies, a huge musket ball and a silver sixpence, and Jimmy Coin Master McCall has got six coins all by himself, so on a scale of things Jimmy did best, that's not bad. All back in the house now, giving that sixpence a bit of a clean up with baking soda, and it's come up not too bad, 1927, George V. Not bad at all, pretty good condition, so that was probably the highlight of the hunt. Hopefully there'll be some better finds next time. Thanks for watching.