When original plans change and your day suddenly becomes free, what do you do? You arrange with your mate to go metal detecting of course! After some research we decided to visit a pathway alongside a creek. Amongst the loads of trash and a few ammunition casings, a few coins and relics were found. Here is the pick of the bunch. I also thought I'd try to put some perspective on the age of the items found by including a little fact about something that occurred during that

Field trip with the Adelaide Treasure Hunters Club, 20 August 2017. In the allotted timeframe I originally ended up with $15.48 in modern coins, but after lunch I went back out and increased that total to $22.68. On an interesting side note, one of the club members was having problems with his machine. I offered for him to use my spare machine which I had in the boot of the car. He accepted and landed himself an 18K wedding band. Total loot Matchbox Peugot Quasar, 1986. Bu

South Australian Jockey Club Member Pass - 81/82. South Australian Jockey Club Lady Member Pass - 81/82. AMSA pin, made by Wallace Bishop Jewellers in Brisbane. No information is available at this stage as to what AMSA means, but they are looking into it for me. $1.80 Coin Spill. 1948 Penny - King George VI 1951 Penny, King George VI Summary, $2.62 in decimal coins, 2 x SAJC member tags from 81/82, AMSA pin, .22 shell casing, part of some costume jewellery, 1948 KGVI penny a

I find things other than coins when I go metal detecting. Most of them don't make the photography or filming cut. Here are some of the more interesting ones... 1977 Hot Wheels '57 T-Bird Matchbox No. 56 Hi-Tailer Unknown brand, Ford Sierra XR4Ti Gordon Baseball Watch part Lead bullet 303 shell casings I think this is a shot gun sell casing. This one is all metal, I mostly find paper ones. D buckle. I love finding buckles! Owl letter opener Metal tube - Colgate toothpaste

Metal detecting haul. 9:30am - about 4:00pm. The weather was forecast to be absolutely awful, but fortunately it held off for us! Just shy of $23 in modern coins, sadly only one pre-decimal but a few interesting relics! Overall haul. Seahorse head, judging by the weight I think this is lead. Dog registration tag. It looks like rego number 3, district 53. Reverse side of dog tag. Close up of the date you can see, it's July 1930, presumable to June 1940. My oldest dog tag