When an Eketāhuna resident found a coin among her possessions, she had no idea what it was.
The coin, inscribed Success to New Zealand Contingent, was among other coins found when Cheryl Banks was going through them one day.
The inscription was difficult to make out, but when she saw the date, 1899-1900, she wondered if it could have been from the Second Boer War.
On the other side, Queen Victoria is pictured with the inscription “British Transvaal War”.