I discovered four old coins in my jacket pocket this weekend at Struan Farm. Think I must have found them when we cleaned out Maurie's workshop a year or so ago and stashed them there. Brings to mind the rhyme "Find a penny pick it up, all the day you have good luck."
Upon clean up and closer examination we saw that these are old New Zealand pennies.
A young Queen Elizabeth II is on three of the coins, with what looks to be a classical laurel wreath in her hair. The fourth is of her father George VI, King and Emperor, and is dated 1947. The backs of all are similar, and feature a NZ native tui (bird) and kowhai (flowering tree).
What a lucky find!
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