My finds today in Germany, Please help with ID

Lance15t

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Dec 26, 2013
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Well we got permission on this field and these are my finds. Only got to detect for half a day. Cant wait to get back out. Please help with ID. Especially the moon, it has faces on both side, man and woman. Looks very old.
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Nice finds there !
 

Lance15t wrote:
> Please help with ID.

Lance, welcome to TreasureNet. :)

The eagle emblem of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany) is on two of your coins, which would date them to sometime between 1949 and 1999.
What is the value of a Bundesrepublik Deutschland coin
(After-posting edit-note: I see Mackaydon has already identified your final-photo coin as a German 2 Marks coin from that time-period.)

The broken disc looks like a "White-Tombac" (metal alloy containing mostly copper, with about 10-to-15% zinc, and 1% arsenic) 1-piece flatbutton, manufactured primarily for civilian usage, not military. But please note, you only gave us a photo showing one side of it, so I can't be sure about identifying it as a button. White-Tombac buttons date from the mid-1700s to the very-early 1800s. The front of White-Tombac buttons is most often plain (blank), but some have an engraved or depressed design.
BUTTONS 3 - silversimon

I do not recognize the other three objects in your photos. I see you've posted the crescent-moon-with faces object in the What Is It forum. We need to see photos showing the back of the other two objects. Also, please clean those two a bit better. The grey disc seems to have the letters "O Co" on it... but I can't be sure about that until I see it after additional cleaning.
 

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Thanks everyone for your help. I tried cleaning them better with no luck. You were right about the tombac button and the coins. One is a commerative 20th anniversary coin. The moon is tricky. But I think I got a explanation. Here it is: http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=514
 

Second photo appears to be a nazi coin and the eighth photo appears to be a 1924 Rentenpfennig.
 

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