Old silver Quarter and few other finds...

Bavaria Mike

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Bavaria Germany
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Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
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All Treasure Hunting
Had a good weekend on a field in Bavaria. Tried all last week to get my coil over something but it just didn’t happen, LOL. Did a water hunt early last week, it was cold even in a wet suit. Here’s the son of a beach that gave up .70 Euro cents and not much more, did find a key that was reported lost about a month ago, gave it to the guy in charge of the little park and lake. There is also a gold wedding ring in there somewhere I would like to find for the owner. I need to get a weight belt as the wet suit makes me too buoyant and is hard to dig.
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The field finds. Lead whatsit far left, two clay marbles, two musket balls, a lead seal and a lead spindle whorl.
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Another whatsit, an aluminum coin from 1921 and an interesting buckle.
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A brass wedding band, may have been gold plated as it does have a stamp in the band however, I can not read it. A small copper religious pendant and two glass beads, left bead looks like it could be very old.
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A nice silver ring missing the loop, I did look for the loop. The ring has the initials IHS with a cross on top and rays at the bottom, IHS are the initials of the Greek word for Christ adopted by the Roman Catholic religion.
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Obverse of a copper coin, not sure of the date but I think it is early 1800s. Has the words “Bewahrt Von Leid Bleibt Allezeit” Means something like hard times are always sure to happen.
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Reverse of the copper.
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Quarter of a milled silver coin, probably broken in the field.
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Reverse of the silver. HH, Mike
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Thanks for sharing that shot of the village-what a picturesque place to live! Love the relics-really curious about the whatsit on the far left is-very interesting finds!
 

Sweet finds Mike. It is funny what you mean by "silver quarter" as compared to what we in the US think of as a silver quarter. I like yours much better than the normal ones I find. Keep up the posts...Ryan
 

Nice crude ring :)
 

Great old stuff Mike. That ring is really cool. The water detecting is not always as easy as it appears. I got something in the mail yesterday - I'll pm you. ;D

Bob
 

Great finds
I'm scheduled to find a missing wedding band at a local lake beach. I went back to the stock XLT Coin/Jewelry Program, it helped me find some older coins. 17-20 Aug is a 4 day weekend, I'm hoping to detect at Wurzburg Kasern before it closes, if anyone is interested.
HH
 

I wonder how old the IHS ring is. That has to go way back!

Nice field finds!


Ridley
 

Great finds once again Mike The Mrs. and I always look forward to your post.
Your where I wish I were! HH and keep up the post! :D

Desertfox and Lady Fox
 

Thanks all for the nice comments! The silver IHS ring could be Medieval (500+ years old) as it does have a very crude look about it, certainly hand engraved. The field where I found it has already been planted, will be about 1 year before I can get back on it. HH, Mike
 

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