Out 'n' About With The CTX3030

Was sorting through the scrap bits n pieces this morning,
from yesterdays hunt

Laxative tablets , stationary engine , and a triumph side car

Oow sidecar. Way cool.

No.4 too.

BUGGAR !!
I wrote a long detailed story explaining todays events ...then changed pages after preview and lost the lot
So you just get pictures

BUGGA, left us all hanging on the date of the old thrippy too (ha).
Just shoot me a PM if you don't want everyone to know. :lol:

1893

Nice hunt, great read

rocketaroo said:

1893

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Close .... 1888
The other side is pretty grotty can only just make it out
Will post another pic once i get it cleaned up

Nah, she be all young and horwomanly there, gotta be an younger date on her. 8)

Sandta said:

Was sorting through the scrap bits n pieces this morning,
from yesterdays hunt
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3188/1465702906_image.jpg
Laxative tablets , stationary engine , and a triumph side car
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3188/1465703012_image.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3188/1465703037_image.jpg

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Love the Lesney's

Must be a lot older to get the young queen.

not sure how old though.

Maybe its 1838 then .
Its hard to see
Havent got any cleaning stuff with me

The young head can range from 1838 - 1887, so a pretty vast number of dates to chose from. Regardless, still a very nice silver Sandta, look forward to seeing it cleaned up - here's hoping for an early date.

No haste that would warrant scratching it at all, we could wait (days even if required) :lol:
hope it's 1838

I think 1883 , unfortunately the coin is bent too
This is the best i can do at the moment

I concur. 8)
That's still a great find.
Recipe for success.
Two nice flat metal surfaces, two pieces of medium thickness leather, boil your coin to add heat, stack, metal leather hot coin leather metal, then hit the top of the stack with a hammer just enough to take out the bend, and you should have a straight coin if all goes well.

How deep was the three pence

treasureman said:

How deep was the three pence

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About 2"

Ok ,ill try to repeat what i lost last night.
Following Heatho's suggestion, i made a 'goldies & 50c' program
I went for a drive to a spot id been before ... "The park of plenty pull tabs" :lol:
(This spot is directly in front of a kiosk and has produced many goldies in the past)
I started in standard coin mode. With every swing i got a dozen or more targets (pull tabs)
So i changed to the goldie & 50c mode ... AHHH ... much quieter
I didnt find any goldies but did get the 3 50c coins
To my dismay though ,ring pulls with the beaver tail folded into the ring, give the same signal as those 50c so i ended up digging a heap of those too

Then i switched back to standard coin mode and went for a bit of a wander... Thats when i got the spendables , badges and the dozer (pictured above with the ring pulls)


Next spot i went to has also produced good finds in the past. First with the ace250 and then with the sovereign
So i thought it would be good to see what i could pull with the 3030
A good test spot i figured, about 5 meters by 25 meters with almost no junk at all
The first target was the penny .. Under a tree , amongst the roots
The only other responses i got were Very ify signals.... And both turned out to be the threepences

Here are this mornings finds

Happy to find a florin

The coppers that i can identify are
'53 & '55 half pennies
'35 comm , '52 & '55 roo pennies
The other 3 are commies , but i cant see the dates