Bavaria Mike
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- Feb 7, 2005
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Have not been posting much and just a little lurking in the background as I am on a business trip for 21 days, last week of the trip and Monday finally arrived. It has been Monday for a long time, LOL. Have been out after work detecting most days doing night hunts. I lived in this area for over a year and will be moving back soon so I had a few hot spots I knew of and have been concentrating on those areas. I was happy to see the field I wanted to hunt being harvested of sugar beets my first day here. I asked the farmer if he minded me detecting the areas already harvested and he had no problem with it, he asked everyday what I had found as it took three days to finish the harvest. Here’s the field to the left and the pile of sugar beets on a nice day before we set the clocks back.
Here’s a picture of the field arriving after work and after setting the friggin clock back. Day light savings time my butt, I lost an hour and want it back!!! That is the same pile of sugar beets in the background. The field has been plowed and seeded with winter wheat over the two weeks I have been detecting it.
A few finds from my last hunt at home over two weeks ago. A medal with a King’s bust and I just noticed there is a Queen behind him while posting this. And a ring with a heart on it. My detecting friend Florian had found two coin weights with orbs (ball with a cross on top) on them during this hunt, I also found one of the same awhile back on the same field.
A few coins found on this field, I found a small hand full from late 1800s to early 1900s.
A large cross I found in pieces, looked for the rest but did not waste much time on it. Looks like a zinc based metal, upper part still has wood inlay, about 8” tall. A tap valve, two musket balls and a button. Have found several buttons and musket balls.
An older looking buckle and odd as it has a wide tongue or whatever the part that goes through the hole in the leather is called. Not sure what the other piece is, the part to the right is flatter than the rest, maybe a book mark type thing?
Two different style thimbles and a weight. The open ended thimble on the right is for someone who would have used a thimble for hours at a time, a seamstress for example. Being open ended it allowed the finger to cool so it did not sweat much. The weight has a crusty build up but I can see a few marks on it, have to clean it.
Two early 1800s copper coins in poor condition, two 1924 coins and upper left an aluminum beer token good for one glass of beer.
Two silver coins, 1848 and an earlier 1800s coin. I have come to realize most of these tiny silver German coins were only .333 or 33% silver, even a large portion of the later 1700s silver were debased. That is why they do not hold up well in the farm fields.
Thought this coin was an average 1851ish copper, it had a very thick crusty patina over it so just for grins, I decided to run the dremel over it with the wire brush bit. Turns out to be a copper ½ Kruezer 1762 coin in very nice condition until I hit it with the wire brush, the crusty patina protected it until I found it, LOL.
Reverse of the 1762 coin. The ½ K can be seen from top to bottom middle. The date of 17 is about the 0800 position and 62 is about the 0400 position on the legend.
A man’s ring and a thimble I found yesterday. The ring has the same crusty patina as the 1762 copper coin had. I do wonder if it is about the same age as the coin? HH, Mike
Here’s a picture of the field arriving after work and after setting the friggin clock back. Day light savings time my butt, I lost an hour and want it back!!! That is the same pile of sugar beets in the background. The field has been plowed and seeded with winter wheat over the two weeks I have been detecting it.
A few finds from my last hunt at home over two weeks ago. A medal with a King’s bust and I just noticed there is a Queen behind him while posting this. And a ring with a heart on it. My detecting friend Florian had found two coin weights with orbs (ball with a cross on top) on them during this hunt, I also found one of the same awhile back on the same field.
A few coins found on this field, I found a small hand full from late 1800s to early 1900s.
A large cross I found in pieces, looked for the rest but did not waste much time on it. Looks like a zinc based metal, upper part still has wood inlay, about 8” tall. A tap valve, two musket balls and a button. Have found several buttons and musket balls.
An older looking buckle and odd as it has a wide tongue or whatever the part that goes through the hole in the leather is called. Not sure what the other piece is, the part to the right is flatter than the rest, maybe a book mark type thing?
Two different style thimbles and a weight. The open ended thimble on the right is for someone who would have used a thimble for hours at a time, a seamstress for example. Being open ended it allowed the finger to cool so it did not sweat much. The weight has a crusty build up but I can see a few marks on it, have to clean it.
Two early 1800s copper coins in poor condition, two 1924 coins and upper left an aluminum beer token good for one glass of beer.
Two silver coins, 1848 and an earlier 1800s coin. I have come to realize most of these tiny silver German coins were only .333 or 33% silver, even a large portion of the later 1700s silver were debased. That is why they do not hold up well in the farm fields.
Thought this coin was an average 1851ish copper, it had a very thick crusty patina over it so just for grins, I decided to run the dremel over it with the wire brush bit. Turns out to be a copper ½ Kruezer 1762 coin in very nice condition until I hit it with the wire brush, the crusty patina protected it until I found it, LOL.
Reverse of the 1762 coin. The ½ K can be seen from top to bottom middle. The date of 17 is about the 0800 position and 62 is about the 0400 position on the legend.
A man’s ring and a thimble I found yesterday. The ring has the same crusty patina as the 1762 copper coin had. I do wonder if it is about the same age as the coin? HH, Mike
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