Cq Detectorists INC Metal Detecting Club

 

A Token hunt was organized for our meeting in October. Marvin kindly donated 5 Commonwealth Penny’s for the kids to find, to win a nice Token each, also donated by Marvin.

The adults section had 2 tokens buried and the first person to find a token won a 1oz 24k Gold Knights Templar Token, again donated by Marvin. The second one found won a bundle of Roo Penny Coasters.

It was a great day and a successful hunt with both the adults and kids enjoying themselves trying to find the tokens and penny’s. Take a look at some of the pics collected and see who won the prizes. 

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For this months hunt, we spent 2 nights at Ogmore, searching some of the many old places that were available to us. Andrew done a great job researching and finding out about the history of the old place and gaining us permission to hunt there. We found out that many a thirsty old coal miner dropped there coins at the pub, well under the pub anyway, as the coins dropped through the floorboards and ended up in the dirt.

We had 2 good days of hunting and we managed to find quite a number of old relics from the past. Also lots of pre-decimal coins and some lovely old bottles were found. There were well over 15 silver coins found, many penny’s and half penny’s. Leeann found what we describe as a full house of pre-decimal coins, that’s one of each denomination.

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Just a short wrap up and show and tell of our last few Club Hunts. In June we had a small, but successful little hunt at a local park here in Rockhampton. Everyone chimed in with some nice coins. Andrew also found a heap of them on his day out in NSW.

For July’s meeting we headed up the hill to Mt Morgan, a place called Car-Lyn Prospecting. Sophie found a very nice 1907 Edward VII Britannia Penny, Brendan found an old vintage Yale lock and John found some gold in Long Gully.

August seen us back at the Mount, not far from the old gold mine. Was a good day out everyone went home smiling as we all found something worth remembering. Karen found a nice big old Jackson Tasmanian lock.

Overall its been a very successful couple of months for all of our members, not just on club hunts, the rate of finds coming out of the ground is a sight to been seen.

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Hello, its been a while since the last update. We have had a disruptive past 12 months with Covid and all the restrictions, but we are back to normal now. If anyone would like to know more about our club please send us an Email.

Our June meeting was held at Mt Larcom, the showgrounds was the venue of choice. It was a bit wet which luckily enough held off for most of the morning. There was quite a lot of coins found, most of which were spendable, there were a number of pre decimals unearthed as well. The prize for the find of the day was won by Kim Gunson, who scored a nice old Esso truck and possibly a collectors item. For the find she received a 1930 Penny Tribute Token.

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The venue was Emu Park for this months meeting, it was a little bit chilly early but a nice day overall. There was some nice finds found on the day and it was an overall success. Will see everyone next meeting, happy hunting.

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Was another good meeting on Sunday the 28th of March. We had a good showing of members, 17 in total. The ground was fairly soft so that was a bonus after many months of digging hard ground like concrete. The park itself has been well hunted over the years but we still pulled a few good finds from there. A couple of pennys, a threepence, silver ring, couple of buckles, locks, some modern coinage and a couple of badges.

There was another hunt in Newcastle to coincide with our club meeting. Andrew our President, cleaned up with some really nice finds, including 2 pennys, 3 half pennys, a wheat, a threepence, a 1940 German coin, forces button and a rising sun collar badge. Great hunt Andrew.

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A great weekend was had at Seeonee Park at the inaugural Greg Egretz Memorial Hunt weekend. We had alot of members that travelled many hours to attend our meeting, they came from Bundaberg, Gladstone, Mackay, and all round the CQ area. Thank You to all those who attended. Thank You to Anthony for organising this weekend in memory of his father, and everyone else who took part in the organisation as well. It was very enjoyable for both detecting and socialising.

It was a very hot weekend, but that didn’t stop our members from getting out amongst the WW2 relics that were scattered throughout the old camp and Scout grounds. And little did we know a Police Badge from the mid/late 1800s was going to be found. Plenty of other relics were found around the property as well. Too many to mention them all, but includes coins, buckles, silvers, bullets, buttons, spoons and more.

Anthony awarded the winner of the inaugural Greg Egretz Memorial Hunt to Leonie Story, with her Queensland Police Button. Congratulations Leonie.

Another important thing on the agenda for the weekend was the annual AGM, and with all the general business taken care of, we had the election of the clubs office bearers. Congratulations to all those elected and I’m sure all members are looking forward to the year ahead. The following people were elected…

* President – Andrew Mason

* Vice President – Marvin Curnuck

* Secretary – June Birch

* Treasurer – Graham Ward.

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It’s on every detectorists bucket list, the very elusive Gold Sovereign. Well at last Sunday’s club meeting, Graham Ward, our treasurer found 2 of the golden beauties!!

After finding the first one Graham called us over and as we were admiring the Sovereign he thought there may be another one in there. So with most of us watching on in anticipation and Marvin filming, Graham dug down further to reveal another Gold Sovereign, we were all so excited and jumping around high fiving each other…Its an experience I will never forget. What a thrill to see not one, but two Gold Sovereigns come out of the ground. Congratulations again to Graham.

There were also quite a few other coins found by members on the day, being Pennys, Shillings, Sixpences and even an old Token, one of the coins dating back to 1816. But the day belonged to Graham and the golden pair of 1861 Australian Sydney Minted Sovereigns.

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