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    My October Finds in Germany (pic heavy)

    Hi Diggers,
    Between work and family I'm only able to get out for a couple hours on Sunday mornings. Luckily the weather has been warmer than normal this month. I found a good array of relics and coins ranging from about 200 A.D. up to the mid 20th century. Here is some pics. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed digging them up! Best wishes and happy hunting to all, Dave.
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    Oldest Coin: 100-60 BC Gallic bronze coin (Sequani Tribe)
    Oldest Silver Coin: 1156 hammered Pfennig from (now) Bavaria
    Oldest U.S. coin: 1805 Draped Bust Large Cent
    Best Coins EVER: 1625 4 Sols from Kingdom of Chateau Renaud, France
    1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
    Best Relics: Bronze Age Arrowheads & Spearhead, 2c Roman silver ring, complete medieval knight's spur (x6)
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    Global Moderator Fire Fighter 43's Avatar
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    Amazing finds as usual Dave! I’m so damm jealous, WTG.


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    I agree, fabulous finds! What's with that 1924 coin, looks gold?
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    Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.

    2023 Silver: 1 Gold: 0

    Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
    Oldest/best coins: 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
    Oldest find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
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    Great post, Thx for the photos. You really finds some great stuff. WD
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    Quote Originally Posted by Digger_O'Dell View Post
    What's with that 1924 coin, looks gold?
    Great question! After WW1 Germany was so broke they had no gold or silver reserves to back their currency. The only thing of value they had was the bounty of the land so they issued Renten Pfennigs (renten means mortgage in German) and used the value of the harvest to back the money (hence the wheat ears). The coins are cheap aluminum with a gold colored coating. Most of them I dig up are basically rotted aluminum slugs but every now and then a good one pops up.
    Oldest Coin: 100-60 BC Gallic bronze coin (Sequani Tribe)
    Oldest Silver Coin: 1156 hammered Pfennig from (now) Bavaria
    Oldest U.S. coin: 1805 Draped Bust Large Cent
    Best Coins EVER: 1625 4 Sols from Kingdom of Chateau Renaud, France
    1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
    Best Relics: Bronze Age Arrowheads & Spearhead, 2c Roman silver ring, complete medieval knight's spur (x6)
    YouTube Channel: Full Metal Digger

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    A couple of hours a week? Wow Dave.
    Congrats on all those amazing finds!!
    I'm loven all those amazing buttons that you've been digging!!
    Oldest Coin: 1699 William III Halfpenny


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    Quote Originally Posted by DaddyDigger View Post
    Great question! After WW1 Germany was so broke they had no gold or silver reserves to back their currency. The only thing of value they had was the bounty of the land so they issued Renten Pfennigs (renten means mortgage in German) and used the value of the harvest to back the money (hence the wheat ears). The coins are cheap aluminum with a gold colored coating. Most of them I dig up are basically rotted aluminum slugs but every now and then a good one pops up.
    Thanks, that's some great info. My grandfather who came over from Germany start of the third Reich had some like that, but they didnt have that coloring.
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    Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.

    2023 Silver: 1 Gold: 0

    Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
    Oldest/best coins: 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
    Oldest find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
    You Tube: Rediscovering America

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    I think you are surrounded by too much history. You need to dig all that stuff up! Great post!
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    Your musket ball pile is larger than all of mine(even after all the years). Great finds as usual. Detecting for only a few hours your keepers are amazing.....
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    That 1707 caught my eye! But seriously...that's some ridiculous hunting, Dave! There's like four posts here
    Did you luck out and land in a region where nobody ever heard of metal detectors?
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    I'm still ogling over that bronze spur Dave! Your musket ball count nearly exceeds all I've found in the past 3 years here in VT. Nuts.

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    So many wonderful finds in only one month! There is a history book full of information in those finds, so much to research and learn about. The spur is phenomenal. The 1707 silver coin is spectacular. The buckles and buttons are nice pieces of history as well.

    Congrats on the super month, Dave! I can't wait to see what you find next!

    Lifetime totals:
    9 Large Cents, 415 Indian Heads, 2 Two Cent Pieces, 1 Capped Bust Half Dime, 1 Seated Half Dime, 10 Shield Nickels, 68 V Nickels, 124 Buffalo Nickels, 31 War Nickels, 16 Seated Dimes, 131 Barber Dimes, 405 Mercury Dimes, 249 Rosies, 4 Seated Quarters, 18 Barber Quarters, 19 Standing Liberty Quarters, 89 Silver Washingtons, 1 Seated Half, 3 Barber Halves, 16 Walking Liberty Halves

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