6 Hours worth and a lot of pics...

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
Got about six hours of detecting last week between renovating a room and working for a living. Had a special hunt with my Archaeologist friend Sunday for about 2 hours in an area where he found a nice Stone Age arrow head with a broken tip. He found a nice stone musket ball from Medieval times, no picture, and I found a small blue glass bead on the surface 300-700 years old maybe and an 1863 silver coin with the detector. My Archie friend sure was interested in the detector but wouldn?t try it out. Here are the finds, some lead, a lead bullet left, 6 musket balls, an oval whatsit with writing that I have not looked at much and lower right a lead seal with an image on it, not sure what it is.
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Seven coins from the late 1800s to 1941. Found ten coins total.
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Three religious crosses, the one in the middle looks encrypted and maybe a date can be made from the left part of the cross.
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Some of the interesting relics, upper left a small cuff button from a French Grenadier uniform, I found a larger one last Fall about 3 miles away, they date to the late 1800s and have what is known as a bird cage fastener as it looks like a bird cage, this one is broken off. A little Hitler youth cap badge with a swastika, not sure of the class and grade of gold, silver or bronze as it is not in very good condition. A watch or clock winder, a possible flattened candle snuffer and the cool blue glass bead, hope the bead is old.
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The obverse of what I think is a 1755 copper, date at the lower part of the coin, need to research it.
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1755 reverse.
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Obverse of a copper Austrian ? Kreuzer, shows the bust of Francis what?s his face, the last Holy Roman emperor, date is 1800.
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Reverse of the 1800, top of coin shows a double headed eagle with a crown in the middle, spread wings with a ? in the middle of the coin, date of 18 at the 8 oclock position and 00 at the 4 oclock position.
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Obverse of a silver 1863 Bavarian 1 Kreuzer, they are very small.
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Reverse of the 1863 silver. HH, Mike
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BM,

very nice artifacts; collector items all.

have a good un.........
 

Man Mike,between you and Birdman it make's me want to take a serious road trip.Still kicking myself in the butt for not detecting when I was over there...Excellent find's,all of them.Congrat's and HH this year..
 

very neat finds -- so much history -- so little time :)
 

WTG Mike your the man!!! :) I sure enjoy the pictures. HH Burdie
 

MIKE, Great Finds, As Usual, Congrats. Good Hunting. trk5capt...
 

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Wow Mike you just never know what will come out of the ground you hunt. Very old old stuff and such a variety, and you do a excellent job researching your finds. Tsgman
 

Ambien....Tylenol PM.... :D I don't know how you sleep! :D

WoW! Love those finds Mike!

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Nice finds Mike,

hh

lonewolfe
 

great digs mike!
 

wow! coins is super! hitlerjugend badge - no comments - SUPER!!! in russia dont possible find it :(
 

WOW Mike!!!! Hope i can keep up with you when i get my MXT. The hitler badge is cool. Vern
 

Mike as always,Amazing stuff. I wish I could find more of the older coins like you do. I don't get past 1850 to often.Great digs!
 

Hello,

Nice finds! I need to become friends with one of you over that way. So I can fly out sometime and go metal detecting we will find like a cache or something if we work hard. (I would need a new detector) Some of those Romans would be cool or some old gold ha! That would rule!

Keep @ it and HH!
 

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