German Silver Mark 1875

[Benjamin52]

Hello everyone.
This is my first silver coin I found in my home country Germany so Im a bit excited.
I went to a field by my house where I had previously found some musket balls and copper coins very early at about 4.30 was swinging for 2 hours with no result, only trash and it was time to go back for a family trip.
I crossed another field on the way back and just swung around without much hope when I got a 12.46 on my ctx. As soon as I opened the hole I could see the shiny silver rim of the coin! What a great moment. It came out so nice and clean and after washing it gently with water it was almost like new. Enjoy the pics.





Happy Hunting! And thanks for looking!

 

[kingvegan]

that is fantastic, i have never found one that old

 

[trapperart]

Congrats looks to be in good condition

 

[austin]

Bet the "Iron Chancellor himself left that for you to find. Congratulations...

 

[tomhighland]

Congratulations on old silver. Thank you for sharing your find with us.

 

[Texas Ed]

Benjamin one bodacious 1875 German Mark - has great detail and cleaned up nice - thank you for posting pictures of your find and story - I wish you many more great finds while out dirt fishin.

Texas ED
S/E Texas Gulf Coast

 

[Westfront]

Very nice one. Almost uncirculated + you don't get them often under the coil. Congrats!

 

[beerguy]

Great coin, dude! Congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the first silver!

 

[Gridwalker306]

What a beautiful coin, congrats

 

[Benjamin52]

Very nice one. Almost uncirculated + you don't get them often under the coil. Congrats!

Hope we can hunt together soon!

 

[UnderMiner]

Cool, the German state was only unified for just 4 years by 1875! Very early German silver coin!
Was likely lost very soon after it was made as it is in great condition!

 

[A2coins]

Sweetness great coin for your collection!!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

You won the lottery, first silver & great condition. It proves what I say about those freak silver coins that come out the ground looking like they never went in.

 

[Steve in PA]

Beautiful coin! Don't you love the way silver comes out of the ground after digging so many corroded coppers? A coin like that will really motivate you to keep looking.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Congrats on the nice old silver coin! Very nice.

 

[Benjamin52]

Thanks! :-) Too bad I scratched the back a bit but after digging 50 pieces of scrap metal and musket balls one does get a bit careless :-)

 

[park pirate]

Sweet coin brother...