# A day at the Racecourse **URL:** \ **Category:** Coin and Treasure\ **Created:** [5 August 2022 03:15 UTC](https://forum.pmat.org.au/t/a-day-at-the-racecourse/860 "2022-08-05T03:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![howard.55.ha](https://forum.pmat.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@howard.55.ha](https://forum.pmat.org.au/u/howard.55.ha)\ **Post date:** [5 August 2022 03:15 UTC](https://forum.pmat.org.au/t/a-day-at-the-racecourse/860/1 "2022-08-05T03:15:29Z")
Getting a bit tired of the wintry weather I took advantage of a fine day to re-visit a Northern Tas old racecourse which is no longer used as such, hoping to snag a coin or two. I usually manage to find something to take home even though it has had an absolute flogging from other detectorists. Other people using the area often will come up for a yarn and tell me " Oh you won’t find anything here mate - it’s been done to death by every man and his dirty black dog" . Yeah, right! Anyway, I proceeded to an open area and after digging numerous ringpulls, bottle caps and assorted shredded aluminium cans I got onto a spill of decimal coins dated between 1966 and 1980. Moving on I decided to detect along a fenceline where I had previously detected a few old pennies and a 1900 3 pence. Using the 6 inch coil on the Equinox enabled me to work close to the metal fence and the old pennies and half pennies started turning up. Not long after, my first silver - a 1951 sixpence saw the light of day. A bit further along, out popped a 1951 florin - you little ripper!! Always good to find florins. Working my way back along the other side of the fence towards the car, all I was getting were aluminium cans generally down deep. The weather started to look a bit ominous, it was getting late and I’d had a pretty good day so decided to walk back to the car. A patch of disturbed ground right under the fence where someone else had dug caught my eye so over I went and swung the coil over it. Some low value junk targets there but just a few inches away was steady 32 to 33 signal. I dug out a clump of soil and broke it open to reveal a penny sized coin. Carefully brushing away the dirt I could see the silver colour. It was my find of the day - a Queen Vic half crown dated 1881. Just shows that there’s still good old stuff to be found if you’re prepared to put in a bit of work - no- one gets it all. ![20220803_093207](https://forum.pmat.org.au/uploads/default/original/1X/0ca012777abb368fcdd71e98c8107867e99b5cb0.jpeg) ![20220803_093045](https://forum.pmat.org.au/uploads/default/original/1X/27f3ea769708a9a7ac58fb522e007b46f25ab84c.jpeg) ![20220803_092948](https://forum.pmat.org.au/uploads/default/original/1X/0e9b0f9b08bbde4c561b60c87be7372b3c00ec2f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Corey](https://forum.pmat.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Corey](https://forum.pmat.org.au/u/Corey)\ **Post date:** [5 August 2022 05:59 UTC](https://forum.pmat.org.au/t/a-day-at-the-racecourse/860/2 "2022-08-05T05:59:58Z")
Wow nice effort mate! That sounds like a good day out for a winter run. ---
**Author:** ![warrenaw](https://forum.pmat.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/53a042/32.png) [@warrenaw](https://forum.pmat.org.au/u/warrenaw)\ **Post date:** [5 August 2022 07:34 UTC](https://forum.pmat.org.au/t/a-day-at-the-racecourse/860/3 "2022-08-05T07:34:41Z")
That’s brilliant mate!! What a haul!! ---
**Author:** ![Wilsonag](https://forum.pmat.org.au/user_avatar/forum.pmat.org.au/wilsonag/32/1422_2.png) [@Wilsonag](https://forum.pmat.org.au/u/Wilsonag)\ **Post date:** [7 August 2022 09:29 UTC](https://forum.pmat.org.au/t/a-day-at-the-racecourse/860/4 "2022-08-07T09:29:30Z")
Congratulations a great find 👍 ---
**Author:** ![lyn8curt](https://forum.pmat.org.au/user_avatar/forum.pmat.org.au/lyn8curt/32/529_2.png) [@lyn8curt](https://forum.pmat.org.au/u/lyn8curt)\ **Post date:** [7 August 2022 09:56 UTC](https://forum.pmat.org.au/t/a-day-at-the-racecourse/860/5 "2022-08-07T09:56:18Z")
Whoa ! Half Crown in great nick . Congrats mate , that’s a beauty .