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Title: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: mole on August 21, 2009, 08:07:26 PM Went out last sunday with the old explorer 11 on some commonland about three hours into my search I recieved a great signal or should I say signals covering an area six foot square starting digging out popped a ship halfpenny from 1964 which had be partially filed away ??? a few minutes and a lot of digging ::) later I had eighteen in total ;D apparently they were used years ago for the old slot gas meters when people ran out of money they were a substitute for shillings ;D until the gasman called :( never mind next gold staters ;D ;D
Title: Re: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: KANE (DES) on August 21, 2009, 08:22:19 PM hi found three bags of half pences and give two away, kept one for myself
Title: Re: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: Jonola (Jon) on August 21, 2009, 08:29:29 PM 20 squashed and flattened old pennies and halfpennies in a field by an old coal train line up Garndiffaith. Apparently the kids put the coins on the line and the trains ran over them and flattened them. Showed my dad them and he told me what they were. Strangely one or more of them may have been his from decades earlier. Someone must have found some and buried them. Weird.
Title: Re: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: DIGGA on August 21, 2009, 08:40:21 PM I FOUND 9 OLD SMALL HALF PANCES IN THE SAME HOLE ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: willow tree on August 22, 2009, 05:10:14 AM i found 186,567,ring pulls scattered all over wales if only i would have kept them all ;Dwhat a big hoard ;D
Title: Re: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: earth24 on August 24, 2009, 06:38:40 PM johnny found a hoard of 78 pound coins along with my 8 it was a good haul
Title: Re: HAS ANYONE ELSEFOUND AN UNUSUAL HOARD??? Post by: mark barrett on August 24, 2009, 07:21:44 PM yes in my local wood not long ago i found 145 brass fruit machine tokens, it took over a hour for me and shungav to get them all, We were near a pub so maybe they were stolen from their place,..
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