Bad weather but still found 12 coins...

[Bavaria Mike]

I have not been out all week due to hurricane like weather here in Germany. Today the weather was better, but not much, high winds and a little rain. Thought I would give it a try and it was not bad all bundled up. I detected for about 1.5 hours then my batteries died, I may have a weak battery as all but one still had sufficient voltage and I did not have many hours on the freshly charged batteries. The only spare batteries I had were in my camera, no problem I thought, back to the car, changed batteries, turned on the machine and back to the field. About half way to the spot, the machine turned off, hmmm? Turned it back on and noted low batts then it shutdown again, spare camera batteries were also low. Oh CRUD!!! Still had two spare batteries in the car but, the wind and rain picked up big time and I just took it as a sign, give it up! I had already found 12 coins and few relics. Here’s the field I detected today, I was detecting around that dog leg spot in the middle. Have always thought that spot only looked good and would not give up anything.

The relics. A musket ball, a button and I’m not sure what the other two items are.

Obverse of six coins, the 12 coins date from 1875-1950.

Reverse.

Obverse of the other six coins.

Reverse. Had a nice hunt, I want to say the weather was bad but it was good for January 20th. HH, Mike

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

Thanks for the nice comments! The button is just a plain button, thought the reverse with loop would be more interesting to show. The long thing with a leaf on it may have been a piece of furniture decor or a carriage decoration. HH, Mike

 

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[dugupfinds]

Thanks for the nice comments! The button is just a plain button, thought the reverse with loop would be more interesting to show. The long thing with a leaf on it may have been a piece of furniture decor or a carriage decoration. HH, Mike

Or decoration from a ornate French style clock??

 

[Daisy]

Hey Mike great finds!
The four holey whatzit... I'm thinking a wind up key for a clock maybe?
Hope the weather clears up for you. Always enjoy your posts. Keep it up!
Daisy

 

[comfyinvermont]

Hey Mike, nice finds. Don't want to hear you complain about your weather though. Its -7 degrees here now with a thirty mile per hour wind. Congrats Lance

 

[tsgman]

Great coins and relics as usual! I hope your weather gets better. We have had some nasty weather here in Missouri. Freezing rain, sleet and ice build up on the power lines and trees. Thousands and thousands of people without power. I lost my power for 6 days. Luckily I had a generator and propane powered fireplaces upstairs and down.

 

[civilman1]

That's great you can live by the old "mail man motto"....Great find's as usual Mike!!

 

[bryan]

i dont know much about foreign coins. are those worth anything nice finds btw

 

[Mirage]

Nice group of finds. Looks like more of a coin day. Some of those get pretty bad looking. Do you try much cleaning or just kind of wash them up? Still some nice coins.

Bob

 

[coinman66]

Nice stuff Mike! HH Coinman66

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Hey Bob, I do not clean much other than a rinse in water and a lite brushing with a soft toothbrush. I do occasionally clean silver coins in a silver dip cleaner. I figure I will clean finds when I can't get out and that might be soon.

Mark, there are more caches and treasure found in Europe than you will read about, alot of it makes its way to flea markets and Ebay. I prefer to hunt for Medieval and older. WWII relics are nice to find, I have a few with swastikas, one of my favorites is a bottle cap with a swastika on it, best bottle cap I ever found, LOL! I just donated a Mother's cross from WWII to a friend who has a small military museum in Canada, unfortunately it was not in great condition. Most WWII relics sell for a premium and are expensive. HH, Mike

 

[99Brown]

Another batch of good finds. WTG Mike!!