Bavaria Mike
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- Location
- Bavaria Germany
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Was planning on having a friend over to detect today (Iroc88Army) but the weather being the way it is, we decided to try again in a few weeks. It did go down to -6C/21F last night but the snow covering on the fields acted as insulation and they did not freeze. The day was sunny but only got up to 1C/34F. I detected for about 1.5 hours and made a few nice finds. Promised my daughter we would go sled riding this afternoon then took the dogs for a nice long walk. Here’s the finds, three musket balls.
Obverse of a neat 007 special agent badge, it looks better than the picture and has some quality to it.
Reverse of the 007 badge. Pin assembly is bent. It is small, about the size of an American quarter.
Obverse of three coins dating 1903, 1901 and 1876. No reverse picture.
Obverse of two copper coins, left is an 1851 and right is too worn but you can make out a bust facing right. No reverse picture.
A nice seal matrix with the initials N.G. used for wax seals. I mirrored the image. These are the last generation of seal matrixes and dates to the late 1800s and possibly into the very early 1900s. Have 4 or 5 of this type now. It will fit into an American Nickel for size comparison.
Top of the seal matrix with stem that would have fitted into a wooden handle.
This little beauty popped up just minutes into the hunt, a 1791 silver 12th of a Thaler. On the legend it says “Eine Feine Mark” or “A Fine Mark” referring to the German coinage of the Deutsch Mark that went to the Euro in 2001. Very confusing trying to figure out older German coinage, blows my mind, LOL, but it is very interesting! I did some research on the coin, not sure where it is from but other coins with this date are .833 silver, they did keep some standards as the coins could be passed from kingdom to kingdom. It was about the silver weight and not what king or denomination was on the coin.
Reverse of the 1791 silver. Also found a few buttons and a badly corroded religious pendant and a few miscellaneous things. I had more good finds than trash today and that is because I take all the trash out of the fields as I go. HH, Mike
Obverse of a neat 007 special agent badge, it looks better than the picture and has some quality to it.
Reverse of the 007 badge. Pin assembly is bent. It is small, about the size of an American quarter.
Obverse of three coins dating 1903, 1901 and 1876. No reverse picture.
Obverse of two copper coins, left is an 1851 and right is too worn but you can make out a bust facing right. No reverse picture.
A nice seal matrix with the initials N.G. used for wax seals. I mirrored the image. These are the last generation of seal matrixes and dates to the late 1800s and possibly into the very early 1900s. Have 4 or 5 of this type now. It will fit into an American Nickel for size comparison.
Top of the seal matrix with stem that would have fitted into a wooden handle.
This little beauty popped up just minutes into the hunt, a 1791 silver 12th of a Thaler. On the legend it says “Eine Feine Mark” or “A Fine Mark” referring to the German coinage of the Deutsch Mark that went to the Euro in 2001. Very confusing trying to figure out older German coinage, blows my mind, LOL, but it is very interesting! I did some research on the coin, not sure where it is from but other coins with this date are .833 silver, they did keep some standards as the coins could be passed from kingdom to kingdom. It was about the silver weight and not what king or denomination was on the coin.
Reverse of the 1791 silver. Also found a few buttons and a badly corroded religious pendant and a few miscellaneous things. I had more good finds than trash today and that is because I take all the trash out of the fields as I go. HH, Mike
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