Whilst working in Newcastle, I got an early finished so launched myself into a local park for a quick hour of metal detecting with my Minelab Etrac. I was using a Detech SEF 18" x 15" coil so I headed into the middle of the field away from all the modern rubbish dropped on the footpaths.
I will return and have a good session here as I quickly found over a dozen coins which were mostly pre-decimal including a nice 1921 Geroge V shilling and a large unidentified ring.
A good day with my 11" coil and my new 8" x 6" coil for the contaminated parts should produce a good haul, so stay tuned for more videos of finds from this site.
I told my wife that I would find hammered silver coins before the end of the year and I've found everything but, so the pressure is on. Expect a video of hammered silver soon as I'm going to lay siege to the local ploughed fields to complete my quest since I hardly ever get time to go on the club digs.
This is a very quick finds update.
I've just been doing a job in Newcastle and I decided
that seeing as I'd finished a bit earlier than I expected,
I would give it an hour in a local
large park. This is what I found.
These are all modern one pences, two pences.
Terrible condition.
Sackless coins there. Must be just made of rubbish.
Talking of made of rubbish, there's two
half crowns there.
Unfortunately they're late 50s and 60s so they're worthless.
Same thing can be said for these Threepenny bits, in poor condition.
What's in reasonable condition, but very crusty,
you know I haven't cleaned any of these, is that.
1921 George V Penny.
That should clean up quite nice if I can get that crust off.
George V 1921 Shilling, which is in reasonable condition.
Not bad.
Silver.
That's a good find.
And the last thing I found,
apart from a pocket full of trash, is a huge heavy ring.
I don't know whether it's made of bronze or what.
Some viewer might have an idea of what it is.
It's definitely a ring, you know,
but it's a really heavy, monstrous sort of ring.
So if anybody has any ideas, they can let me know,
because I really don't know.
Thanks for watching.
