Amazing coin found at Bastogne in Belgium

[bastognee]

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbee here, my name is Pierre and I live near famous Bastogne in Belgium. Most of my leisure time is dedicated to hunting relics of the battle of the bulge. Recently I stumble upon this coin ring lost by an american soldier in a fox-hole near Bastogne and thought some pics were worth to be posted here.

Ot was made from a british 2 shilling coin of 1942.

Enjoy.

ps : I'm using a garrett gti 2500 ... but with the tremendous amounts of shell splinters here, I often have false positive signals, anyway, it's a great detector in my opinion.

thanks for this GREAT website.

Pierre

 

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[Mental Granny]

If you still get on her and read this please let us see more pics and if you found the family!

 

[MEinWV]

Hi Pierre,

Welcome to the site and thank you for posting your story. You brought Thomas Gent back to life to finish the story of his life. This is why we should do what we can to reunite personal finds with the owners or, in some cases, their loved ones. There is so much more true value in our efforts and satisfaction when we can complete the journey of a long lost item.

Thank You so much!

 

[discovery_bound]

Great post and video. A good friend of the family's younger brother died during that battle and is one of very few bodies to have never been recovered. I went to the cemetary in the Ardennes area a few years ago when I was stationed in Germany and made a video tape for her and found her brother's name ranked among the many. Sadly, she passed this january, but I'll never forget her expressions while watching that video. If anyone gets a chance to go to that area, I highly recommend it, it's truly an amazing place of history.

JW

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Outstanding find on the ring. A coin would be great enough, but that puts a person at the site. I can imagine someone bored for hours, terrified the other half of the time and burning off the restless energy making that ring by tapping it on the side of his bayonet.

NUTS!!!

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