Field hunt... Old silver

[Arctica]

I was hunting on field with my g/f and Mr. Aquila. Weather was quite bad. It was lightly raining all the time and the field became quite muddy. But it was worth it, because I found this old silver.


1/12 Riksdaler (Swedish) 1779

Here are all my finds

1/12 Riksraler 1779
10 penniä (Finnish pennies) 1938
50 Penniä 1942
1 penni 1869
5 penniä 1982 (looks like silver but it is made of aluminium)
Two unidentified coins
One bullet, one buckle and four musket balls

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[FortBedfordbob]

Nicely done

 

[Tank69]

beautiful finds , love the big silver you got

 

[CRUSADER]

I detected in that rain first on Saturday, its the same rain that came across from us to you on the Sunday

Nice Silver

 

[TommNJ]

Congrats on the oldie and other finds, thats a cool looking coin !!!

TommNJ

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

cool finds thanks for sharing and hh

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

Nice finds, Arctica! Love the old silver!!
Dale

 

[rjw4law]

better than Euros!

 

[detectahead]

Love the old silver you got!!

 

[Rusted_Iron]

That is a beautiful old silver! Congratulations! Looks like you found a lot of nice old stuff there.

HH,
Rusted

 

[Arctica]

Thanks everyone!

 

[JerV3]

Nice coin,

I'd a got wet for that one

HH Jer

 

[wyattrr]

Man nice hunt...Congrats

 

[allen]

Artica, do you have any history on that sweet coin?
im not familiar with that type of coin.

 

[romeo-1]

Nice...gotta like the 18th century silver!

 

[Arctica]

Artica, do you have any history on that sweet coin?
im not familiar with that type of coin.

I’m not sure what kind of history you meant but…

Finland got its first own money Markka (Finnish mark) 1864. Before that Russian or Swedish money was in use. The area of present day Finland was part of the Swedish kingdom 1249-1809 and part of Russian Empire 1809-1917. During Swedish era every king or queen of Sweden had his/hers own set of coins. Also Russian emperors or tsars had own coin sets during their era. So, dozens of different coin types have been used here in Finland.

In this coin that I found the “G III” means King Gustav III

More information about Swedish riksdaler can be found from here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_riksdaler

And pictures of different Swedish coin types can be found from here
http://ingemars.se/coins/

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[ohannos]

Thats a very nice silvercoin indeed
Little info on it: 50,7 % silver and 888 876 were made
/ Ohannos