I wait a year to find my first silver hammered coin then in the space of 4 days I find two. The first one was a King Edward I penny (Exeter mint - rare) - in previos detecting video and the one I found today was a King Henry VIII half groat (London mint - I think). Apart from the finds in the video there was also a small bronze? ring and a silver book clasp but I left those in my trousers and they went in the wash so I forgot about them - Will put them on the end finds update video coming soon. Other club members also found a few hammered coins, georgian & victorian coins, a silver thimble and there was a nice decorative medieval ring recovered too. If I think on, I will put as many club finds as I can photograph on one of my videos. Detector I used was a Minelab Etrac using the 'Roman Coin' pattern. Although I started with the 18" x 15" SEF coil, I found that the cleaner signals came from the 11" stock coil - Thats what I made most of my finds with. The hammered coin gave a 13-15 signal and was approx 4" deep. Check out my other detecting videos on my 'Metal Detecting' playlist. Thanks for watching - Subscribe for more....
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I'm on my way to Holy Island to do a bit
of metal detecting today with the Blading Club
and I thought I'd just had a pull
in and show you this wonderful sunrise.
What a way to start the day.
Unfortunately the camera doesn't seem
to be capturing just how beautiful it is
but even if I don't find anything this morning that's just made my day.
Holy Island
is actually linked
to the mainland
by a causeway which is
this thing and certain
times of the day or night tide comes up right over
the top of this so you can't actually
Get to and from Holy Island.
Hopefully you'll be able to get off in time tonight.
This is Holy Island
and we're spread out across three fields.
I'm actually in the top field where
nobody else is. I don't think there's been anything found in here yet
but there's a bit of a ruin at
the top side of it
so you never know,
might find something.
There's a lovely
round musket ball,
I think that's four or five I found today.
I haven't videoed them all because they've been
sketchy signals but as the day wears on and it must be,
god it must be nearly four o'clock now,
Solid signals for whatever reason.
I don't know.
I don't know why.
But I'm starting to make a few finds.
Oh, I get a turn.
This one isn't a button.
I found a million and one buttons.
This one actually looks like a hammered coin.
It is a hammered coin.
Oh, hey.
I don't know whether it's silver.
It's very black.
Um...
I'll have to give it a bit of a clean
when I get home and have a look at that.
But it definitely looks to have some detail on it.
Good.
That's two in a week.
It takes about a year to find my first one.
Then I get two in a week.
And hopefully it won't be copper.
So this is just about the sum total of what I found up at Holy Island.
There's an early Victoria ha'penny,
loads of buttons, a few old nails and so on.
I don't know what that is.
And four musket balls.
And then there's the hammered coin as well.
This is the coin. I'll try and keep it steady.
To the best of my knowledge,
it's a Henry VIII half-groat.
That's
the portrait side.
Looks in reasonable condition.
Half the portrait, the bottom half, cleaned really well.
I used tin foil with a bit of spit on and just kept it pressed on.
That corrosion just lifted clean off.
I'm a bit reluctant to clean it anymore, though,
because I don't want to damage the coin.
Henry VIII reigned from 1509 to 1547.
That makes it a pretty old coin.
