500 Won in the Park

I felt I would give the beaches a miss for a day choosing instead to give the playground in Sunkist Bay Road an hour of my time. So on Sunday evening I grabbed my detector and my brothers dog, Nellie, and set off to uncover what lay beneath the bark. A big 'Dog's not allowed' sign thwarted my plans but only for a short time. I returned with Garfy on Monday morning leaving poor Nellie at home.



Copper nickle and only 90 million minted
Picture from net, mine very worn.

 We spent an hour and a half covering the park which luckily was empty and though the return was small we had some interesting finds between us. My first find of note was a 1991 500 Won, Korean coin. My first foreign coin of the year. It was a few inches below the surface and as brown as the bark it lay in.

We both then found $2 coins within seconds of each other. Then there was a long wait for anything worthwhile before Garfy found a Auckland Zoo pendant with an elephant and the zoo's logo impressed on the surface. Garfy said that there was a machine in the zoo that printed your animal of choice on the oval pendant for the cost of a few penny's. I can't recall seeing it but Garfy knows his zoo machines. There followed a flurry of nails and bottle tops before another couple of low denomination NZ coins surfaced and lastly an old five cent piece that was rather battered saw light. 



Garfy trying to reel me in

Gareth had spent time on this outing trying to learn more 

about his discrimination modes and is now able to have a fair idea of what his targets were.

I, of course, just dig everything ! :) 

The heat was starting to get very oppressive so we headed back home to the pool and a well deserved cold beer or two.

See you out there.