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#874100 6th May 2014 7:52pm
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Had a couple of hours today so thought I would start the May finds thread.

2 silver six pences

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Pre decimal pennies dated from 1860 to 1930

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Post office bag seal

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Silver Indian Rupee love token with initials, undated, but some time during queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901)

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Half penny 1932

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American one dime 2006

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Bullet casing and bullet tip (WW2 period I think)

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And the little old half pennies!

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I will update my finds when I get more. Thanks for looking smile



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Pretty awesome finds, it's history in itself wondering the circumstances of how they were lost.


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Cheers Ste, it is mate, bet the Victorians were gutted loosing their coins, they had alot more value in those days

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some nice finds x I had five silvers today 2 sixpences a shilling a florin and a half crown

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Wow Jeff that's a really good haul mate, well done! Where they Victorian? I wouldn't mind finding one of those Edward VII florins with the standing Britannia, they look ace.

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1852 for the shilling 1930 half crown 1933 florin and 1928 and 1940 for the sixpences

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Very nice early shilling mate, thanks for uploading some pics, I thought no-one ever would!

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few more finds

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No more pics have come up Jeff

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having trouble resizing them

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Ok no worries. What i do is upload them onto photobucket first, the click the image url, and paste it into the reply box

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next time we go out you can take some photos of my old finds to put up

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Ok will do mate


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