Todays finds: 7 nickels 7 dimes 7 quarters and one what?

CoinandRelicMan · Mar 15, 2015

Here it is, you will have to look to see it !

Have no idea how it ended up in American soil ,would be an interesting story tho ! It read lower than an ate zinc-olin penny around 30 on the E-Tracs conductive scale. Glad that it was unearthed and made an other wise regular coin shooting day great =)

fyrffytr1 · Mar 15, 2015

It's from Austria. Schillings were the currency of Austria until adoption of the euro in 2002. Before they were removed from circulation a lot were hoarded by collectors. At the exchange rate in effect in 2002, one schilling was worth about a dime.

CoinandRelicMan · Mar 15, 2015

fyrffytr1 said:
It's from Austria. Schillings were the currency of Austria until adoption of the euro in 2002. Before they were removed from circulation a lot were hoarded by collectors. At the exchange rate in effect in 2002, one schilling was worth about a dime.

Thought it was from Austria , thanks for the confirm fyrffytr1 :coffee2:

P.S. Looks like the coin is 91.5 % copper and 8.5% aluminum according to the site below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_schilling

cjon455 · Mar 16, 2015

interesting coin top find in America, pretty cool!

park pirate · Mar 16, 2015

Its a nice one..

I-DIG-IT · Mar 16, 2015

Nice digs.

BigWaveDave · Mar 16, 2015

I found one, dated 1954, on a basketball court years ago when I was a kid. My Dad was with me. Its funny, I had forgotten about it until reading your post...Thanks for sharing.

CoinandRelicMan · Mar 16, 2015

cjon455 said:
interesting coin top find in America, pretty cool!

Hi cjon ! Thanks bro :occasion14:

park pirate said:
Its a nice one..

Hi park pirate ! Yaarr thanks 8-)

I-DIG-IT said:
Nice digs.

Hi I-DIG-IT, thanks you able to dig out there yet ?

BigWaveDave said:
I found one, dated 1954, on a basketball court years ago when I was a kid. My Dad was with me. Its funny, I had forgotten about it until reading your post...Thanks for sharing.

Hi BigWaveDave :hello2:

Its neat how a picture can make your memory work ! Great story there :headbang:

Msbeepbeep · Mar 16, 2015

Neat find!

I run across foreign coins at the beach sometimes.

CoinandRelicMan · Mar 17, 2015

Msbeepbeep said:
Neat find!

I run across foreign coins at the beach sometimes.

Hi Msbeepbeep , thanks :headbang:

Yeah got into a massive penny spill yesterday, dug 63 copper pennies of those 1 was wheat 2 were Canadians . Spent several hours just cherry picking it. I will have to hit the area some more today if time allows.