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Posted : Thursday, 4 August 2011 11:45:07 PM(UTC)
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Went out after work and after wading through an unbelievable sea of bottle caps and pull tabs and the odd coin I was about to give up and go home when I found a coin purse with 4 pennies in it. The newest penny was a 1950 so I figure it had been there a while, but the leather is in amazingly good shape. Then I found an old brass compass and magnifying glass, and then a half crown (my first ever). While heading back to the car I had a wild signal which turned out to be a group of 5 pennies. So all in all a pretty productive evening.


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Posted : Thursday, 4 August 2011 11:58:57 PM(UTC)
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excellent find buddy..
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Posted : Friday, 5 August 2011 1:31:34 PM(UTC)
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Oh so jealous
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Posted : Friday, 5 August 2011 4:44:20 PM(UTC)
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by the way what is a half crown..lol...which one in the picture
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Posted : Friday, 5 August 2011 7:19:37 PM(UTC)
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The buzz of a night time mission. Nice finds.

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Posted : Friday, 5 August 2011 10:08:36 PM(UTC)
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by the way what is a half crown..lol...which one in the picture


I'm glad you asked:

2 Farthing = 1 Half Penny
2 Half Pennies = 1 Penny
3 Pennies = 1 Three Pence
2 Three Pence = 1 Six Pence
2 Six Pence = 1 Shilling
2 Shilling = 1 Florin
2.5 shilling = 1 Half Crown
2 Half Crown = 1 Crown
2 Crown = 1 Half Soverign
2 Half Soverign = 1 Soverign
2 Soverign = 1 Two Pounds
5 Soverign = 1 Five Pounds

It is perfectly logical like all things British...

I believe New Zealand had everything from the Half Penny to the Crown with the Three Pence to Crowns being silver from 1933-1947. So the big silver coin in the middle is a 1943 New Zealand Half Crown.
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Posted : Friday, 5 August 2011 10:16:44 PM(UTC)
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lmao thank you for all that info bud...hopefully we will find some more on sunday when we go out....if the park we are going to isnt old enough there is another one further down the road that has been there for years and years..lol
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Posted : Friday, 5 August 2011 10:45:26 PM(UTC)
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awesome finds!! Nice big silvers those half crowns and they sing nice and high on the detector aye!!
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mem  
Posted : Saturday, 6 August 2011 5:57:11 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for that rgm ,its liked being back at school again ,lol.
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Posted : Saturday, 6 August 2011 7:23:39 AM(UTC)
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3 Pennies = 1 Three Pence


AKA "thruppence" :)
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rgmcbrid  
Posted : Saturday, 6 August 2011 10:17:34 AM(UTC)
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Yes that is absolutely correct’ in addition when I dug up a half penny on a farm in Southland I was informed by the shocked landowner (who couldn’t believe a metal detector could actually find metal) that it was a ‘hapny.’

I researching the British coin system on the internet I also learned that meaning of slang I had often heard on TV and in the movies. It turns out a ‘bob’ is a shilling and a ‘quid’ is a pound. Others I hadn’t heard:

Mag = farthing
Joey = silver three pence
Three penny bit or more properly thrumpny bit = brass three pence
Tanner = six pence
Two bob bit = florin
Half dollar or two and a kick = half crown

One other interesting tidbit that I read was that a shilling was the equivalent value of a cow or sheep in the Anglo Saxon era (5th to 10th century). Apparently there has been a bit of inflation since then.
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