Bavaria Mike
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Got into town a little early yesterday where I work and was talking to my neighbor who works for the town. He was telling me they tore out a large section of bushes beside an old Jewish cemetery last week. I wanted to see the old cemetery and detect the area where they tore out the bushes. The bushes were beside the cemetery, not in the cemetery, I don't do cemeteries. Oldest readable headstone date was 1865, several others that are older but I could not make out the words or numbers. Some of the cemetery is maintained but the oldest part is not and is very spooky. I detected the edge of the cemetery where the bushes were, found a square nail and a piece of iron. Walking back to the car I was looking down and saw a coin partly in the dirt, picked it up and it was a 1938 10 Pfennig Swastika coin. Also found a silver coin this weekend. I will try to get pictures up this evening. HH, Mike
An old headstone from the cemetery in an obscure place on the side of a hill, I couldn’t read the inscription on the headstone. Take a close look in front of the headstone and you can make out a coffin shape, probably not buried very deep and I can attest the soil here is extremely rocky. The cemetery is high up on a hill in a forest. Trying to dig a target even on plowed field can be tough up here. This part of the cemetery looks to have been desecrated as there are several headstones laying flat or they have just fallen over from years of neglect.
The 1938 Swastika coin I found near the car on a path, the date washed off when I rinsed it.
A lead seal with the number “4” on it, a musket ball, a clay marble, a glass button and a glass rosary bead with a metal loop in it. The metal loop is not a good sign as I have found several similar glass beads however, I know the beads with slightly larger holes are the older beads.
An interesting brooch with a glass cover, I can only imagine what the image inside was. I did not take a picture of it before I washed it and learned a lesson as sometimes playing with the colors can reveal something, looked like a greenish puzzle patina before I rinsed the dirt of and some of the dirt got behind the glass. A large military button from the mid 1800s with a rampant lion facing left in the picture.
The silver coin I found Saturday dated 1875 on the right, nice condition for a farm field and my first 50 Pfennig coin from this era. On the left is a 10 Pfennig coin dated 1874 or 1875.
Reverse of the coins. HH, Mike
An old headstone from the cemetery in an obscure place on the side of a hill, I couldn’t read the inscription on the headstone. Take a close look in front of the headstone and you can make out a coffin shape, probably not buried very deep and I can attest the soil here is extremely rocky. The cemetery is high up on a hill in a forest. Trying to dig a target even on plowed field can be tough up here. This part of the cemetery looks to have been desecrated as there are several headstones laying flat or they have just fallen over from years of neglect.
The 1938 Swastika coin I found near the car on a path, the date washed off when I rinsed it.
A lead seal with the number “4” on it, a musket ball, a clay marble, a glass button and a glass rosary bead with a metal loop in it. The metal loop is not a good sign as I have found several similar glass beads however, I know the beads with slightly larger holes are the older beads.
An interesting brooch with a glass cover, I can only imagine what the image inside was. I did not take a picture of it before I washed it and learned a lesson as sometimes playing with the colors can reveal something, looked like a greenish puzzle patina before I rinsed the dirt of and some of the dirt got behind the glass. A large military button from the mid 1800s with a rampant lion facing left in the picture.
The silver coin I found Saturday dated 1875 on the right, nice condition for a farm field and my first 50 Pfennig coin from this era. On the left is a 10 Pfennig coin dated 1874 or 1875.
Reverse of the coins. HH, Mike
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I would bet alot of people walking there maybe after a funeral, diggin for a hankie, would have dropped some good coinage. Happy hunting whatever you decide!
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