Swedish/Belgian Coin

[Detector mom]

Found this last week actually but since it’s Veteran’s Day, thought it was appropriate:

Found this on a c. 1870 permission I’ve been detecting for a year. I believe it is a Swedish/Belgian kroner from the 1930’s. (Haven’t been able to make out exact date.) Interestingly, as you may have seen on another post I just wrote on WHAT IS IT, I’ve found a button from a merchant marine uniform on this property. Through research, I leaned that a young man who lived here served in the merchant marines in WWII—like my own grandfather did. Unfortunately, though, this soldier did not return home; his ship was torpedoed in the Pacific in 1945. 😪 Of course I don’t know for absolute sure if he was the one who dropped this coin on the front lawn of a farmhouse in northern NJ, but it seems a reasonable explanation, as it seems he was at one point stationed in Europe. Maybe he was home on leave?

As an aside, this same house years earlier was the home of 2 young men who served in WWI. As far as I can determine, both of them survived.
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[Red-Coat]

Nice history, but the coin is a Belgian 5 Franc piece in a design that wasn't introduced until 1948, after the war ended.

 

[Mackaydon]

As Red-Coat mentioned, the series began in 1948 (though 1981). There are no rare or valuable dates in the series so you may opt to clean the coin and get the date.
Don in SoCal
PS: Composition: Copper-Nickel, 6g, 24mm

 

[ArfieBoy]

Cool find anyway! Thanks for sharing.