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
I'm on a business trip, working on a WWII German Airforce base. Have several hours hunting around it, haven't found much in the Nazi areas besides a few swastika coins. Best find is unidentified but I think it is a copper coin about 1000 years old with a hole in it, it was encrusted in a coating and I picked away the crustation. No time for pics, later. Met up with two other seasoned detectorists and had a fun hunt. I found the 1000 yr old coin and a silver 925 St. Christopher pendant, and a few other coins. Jeff found 16 coins that day, a beautiful man's silver ring with a green emerald surely over 100 yrs old and surprise find that we thought was a tree number. All the large trees in this town have a silver dollar in size aluminum number nailed on them and we blew it off as one of those. He cleaned it up when he got home and revealed a beautiful WWII German Eagle clasping a Swastika with the number 1 on it and a hole through it. Found it just behind a Luftwaffe airplane hangar about 5" down. Vern found a few nice coins also and what he called a mystery coin, 1870s 2 pfenning common find around my area, LOL! We have many other finds as well but this could get pages long. More later when I can post some pics. HH all, Mike
Looking for an ID on these coins, not much to work with.
This is a copper coin, about the size of a dime. Reminds me of a Carolingian period coin which puts it around 1000 years old, it was completely encrusted with a coating when I found it and I picked it off, properly cleaning it would have destroyed what features that remain as it?s really fragile.
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This is a coin Jeff found 2 weeks ago here in Germany, almost certain it is silver, not sure what kind of language that is. Any ideas?
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Some of the fields I wanted to detect but I just couldn?t ground balance! I use a White?s XLT, any ideas, LOL! This nuke plant is outside of town where I?m working. I was going to tell any bothersome people I was checking for radiation at a beach but, nobody bothered me. HH and any ideas on the coin IDs would be appreciated, Mike
Looking for an ID on these coins, not much to work with.
This is a copper coin, about the size of a dime. Reminds me of a Carolingian period coin which puts it around 1000 years old, it was completely encrusted with a coating when I found it and I picked it off, properly cleaning it would have destroyed what features that remain as it?s really fragile.
Reverse
This is a coin Jeff found 2 weeks ago here in Germany, almost certain it is silver, not sure what kind of language that is. Any ideas?
Reverse
Some of the fields I wanted to detect but I just couldn?t ground balance! I use a White?s XLT, any ideas, LOL! This nuke plant is outside of town where I?m working. I was going to tell any bothersome people I was checking for radiation at a beach but, nobody bothered me. HH and any ideas on the coin IDs would be appreciated, Mike
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