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Better than a gold sovereign?
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Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 1:38:11 AM(UTC)
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Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 8:30:36 AM(UTC)
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wow.. Thats wot i call a real coin find. Totally awesome tonz.

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Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 8:50:05 AM(UTC)
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great find there tonznz
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:21:25 AM(UTC)
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Yeah great find TONZNZ but pardon my ignorance I have not heard of a dump before, is it a coin?
Can we see the other side?
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:54:44 AM(UTC)
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The best find I have ever seen in this part of the world - tremendous - I thought a 'dump' was a colloqualism for a Number Two or somewhere to throw things out!

Back to seriousness I think these coins were the centre taken out of Spanish coins - NSW had to make their own coins I think so they got Spanish ones and stamped the centre out so that the centre was the 'Dump' and the outer ring was known as a 'Holey Dollar' - They must be used today because the Pope will buy his Fish and Chips with Holey Dollars I assume!...Or would that be Holey Liras?

Congratulations on what I think is the best find yet - I think it must be silver? Am I right - regardless of that I actually do think it is better than finding a sovereign and I would rather find that whether it is silver or gold than a sovereign.
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:59:41 AM(UTC)
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 12:20:47 PM(UTC)
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I think you may just have the find of the year there tonznz.
Thanks for sharing the link about it.
Once again I am amazed at where this hobby can lead us
and the interesting and unusual things we can learn from our finds.
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 12:37:48 PM(UTC)
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Wow, I kind of have it in my mind that there are no real 'treasures' in NZ, just might have to give it a re-think. Thanks for letting us in on such a great find.
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 1:26:46 PM(UTC)
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I have found a sovereign, but that Dump would beat it hands down! Congratulations!

Now you just have to hunt around to find a Holey Dollar to make a set! :)
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 4:30:56 PM(UTC)
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Wow!! That is very very cool indeed well done ol chap!!
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 4:44:10 PM(UTC)
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Bloody awesome mate!!!! Good on ya!!!
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 7:31:08 PM(UTC)
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fantastic find there tonznz..i think yours is the class A1 by looking at it...and it is pretty good nick..very very cool find..
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 7:36:58 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:12:50 PM(UTC)
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HI, Tony, still buzzing, will make a great story for the grankids.Last night I grided a section 2pennys thripence 2florin 10dollars new money .One of the pennyies was on the surface,keep going mate
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:43:17 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:46:27 PM(UTC)
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good luck tonznz and if i ever get down your way i would love to get togethr for a hunt.
my detector goes everywhere with me these days...even if i go to doctors..hahah never know where im going to stop on way back home.
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Posted : Thursday, 8 September 2011 7:10:55 AM(UTC)
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Posted : Thursday, 8 September 2011 8:54:08 AM(UTC)
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well if you get up this way drop me a line and maybe we can get together for a hunt.....i know of 3 or 4 parks and school grounds you must of missed...ahahahahahahahaha
As for the avon i will have to give that a shot..and am thinking on hagley park also...alot of ppl go through there.
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Posted : Thursday, 8 September 2011 12:38:06 PM(UTC)
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good luck tonznz and if i ever get down your way i would love to get togethr for a hunt.
my detector goes everywhere with me these days...even if i go to doctors..hahah never know where im going to stop on way back home.


I love chch for detecting! I swear I've cleaned up every public and school bark playground there! Te he he! My trick for schools is to take my kids as field agents. When I'm with them no one thinks about the guy with the detector, as in what is that fat middle aged guy doing at our school with a metal detector. All they see is a father with his kids playing in the playground. Cunning plan! I was told by the miners den people in chch that a detectorist has found over 30 gold sovereigns on the banks of the avon through Hagley park, where people used to sit back in the day. I've never been game enough to dig hagley park though.



Digging up hagley park! Imagine the arseholes you would get moaning at ya?! I was with nzpoohbear40 the other day and had kids telling us that it was their school and that they wanted any coins we found....staunch little buggers.....i asked them if their parents didnt teach them any manners and they kinda shut up....for a minute. :P
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Posted : Thursday, 8 September 2011 1:12:47 PM(UTC)
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I was with nzpoohbear40 the other day and had kids telling us that it was their school and that they wanted any coins we found....


Tell them they are radioactive and beng removed for their safety, and that they should really stand back. Way way back.
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