Nice finds and great post. Love that pistol!
Because you luv it.
Welcome to the .38 club.
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Revisited the old school site this morning before the rain.
Hit the jackpot - Pennies, pennies and more pennies (and a half)
Oldest was an Edward VII
Nothing else though, no fence staples, no lead head nails, nothing but pennies - Which was weird.
Definitely be back to see what I missed.
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Nice!! In your own words just have to clean out the pesky pennyâs to get into the sneaky silvers lol and being a school site must be plenty of sixpences & thrupsâŚjust have to work out where the rich kids had their lunch to get a sneaky sov!!
Now thatâs the sort of site I really really want to find ! Bound to be some of those sneaky silvers there somewhere. Just gotta find where. Good score
You found someones stash!
Not really - these were all singles. Would love to hit a decent coin spill.
As an aside, found this picâŚof a pic on the internet which I think sums up the links with the past weâre all trying to connect to, a long-forgotten party in this case
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Holding a window to the past in your handâŚso cool!!!
Well, you are certain to get some silver next, now that youâve cleared the pennies.
Welldone on the spot, looks amazing.
Shot out for an early evening stroll along the beach down by the port. Usual lead and old decimals. Best find was a WW2 shottie and a handmade? brooch (centre of pic) - whatever was on the front has long since gone, I thought there may have been a cameo nearby, but two spirals in opposite directions gave nothing.
Have to be in to win.
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Been a month since I was able to get out, so I decided to brave the frost for an early morning bush-bash.
Despite being a clear sunny day, it was still bitterly cold in the bush and I spent a fair bit of time just sitting in a patch of early sun to thaw out 
Revisited a spot looking out over the city (Nope, not the monument, try again 
) where we had found old coins as kids (long since swapped or lost!) but I reckoned although we had the ones off the surface, there might be more there.
And there were.
Nine for nine holes.
6 pennies and three halfpennies.
Tough going in the undergrowth, and the cold and wet soon got to me so I chickened out.
Added to the list for a revisit on a warm summer afternoon.
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Youâre hard. I didnât muster up the courage to take a river dunk this morning.
Water was fairly frozen in buckets too!
Tomorrow, Iâm going to do it though.
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Nice one KT, a couple of 1904âs are some nice early ones. Its freezing up here tooâŚ
Happy hunting
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Woke up that morning with best intentions, saw the ice on the car andâŚnope.
Well-earned rewards. 
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Late afternoon trawl along the edges of a park.
Spent much of the time digging foil scraps, as youâd expect next to a city playground!
First decent hit (I lost count of the 2 and 5cents) was a nice 1937 sixpence
Then almost stepped on a very small omelette!
A very stroppy Spurwing Plover was shouting at me from above, but was no match for the noise-cancelling phones. I moved a few dozen metres further on so she could resume her motherly duties.
More decimals, more foil, then a big hit in the phones which sat just under the buttercups
Ooh - a pretty button - Navy I think (Havenât got a definite fix on it in Google yet)
That was about it - a couple more vanilla sixpences, and a weird ceramic thing which turns out to be some sort of mega heavy duty fuse
Finds of the day
Time for wine I think 
Kate
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Gee thatâs a nice button!
Yeah the button certainly looks Navyish doesn,t it. Interesting haul, well done.
Thatâs a good page GP - unfortunately mine is a one piece, with eye cast into it. The closest Iâve found was Admiralty Civil Police - Whatever they are.
Admiralty Civil Police
Although that is a three piece button, the design is just about spot on I reckon.
Maybe an older version?
Trying to tease the backstamp off it, so far looks like I have an âA & Sâ
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Okay, searches were drawing blanks on the button until I realised I hadnât seen that crown before. Looks like itâs not British, Kiwi or Australian, but maybe Imperial German Navy???
Any thoughts-
Only words I can make out are:
Bottom of button: A&S with a 5-pointed star each side
Top: K. D________rine
And as I typed that last line, it clicked to try DeutschMarine and TaaDaaaa! a direct hit, so to speak.
1888 German Imperial Navy.
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