A Detecting Session Of "Two Halves"

[Expat Aussie]

On walking through the entrance to my favourite beach (being good for finding pre-decimals) I noticed that the recent high tides had removed a reasonable amount of sand in a fairly small area and consequently shortly after starting,found a coin.By the time I had finished there,I had found quite a number of coins most of which had been there for some time.Only one was immediately recognisable as a George V penny (1936) that had been drilled in the centre presumeably to make a washer.Later back home I found that only one other was pre-decimal - a 1962E one shilling.I then moved over to the far East end of the beach where I located some recent losses.I had been detecting for nearly 5 hours and was returning to the car when the mobile shop owner called me over,explaining that a young lad had lost a £1 near the step there and could I have a look for it? On the plus side the area to search was small but the 2 shops were in old shipping containers so plenty of steel to hamper the search.First sweep produced only a small rusty steel bolt but on the second sweep bingo! the missing £1. which was surprisingly deep,no doubt caused by the lad and his friends scrabbling about with their plastic spades and rakes.He was delighted to be reunited with his £1 and the shop owner gave me a fresh hot dounut and a cup of coffee to end off an enjoyable detecting session

[lord lovell]

nice finds mate its normally a coin in a hole not a hole in a coin lol

[oldartefact]

Well done ... for a minute thought that this was gonna be a tale of two halves pences!!!!! B-)