Todays Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

[bazinga]

Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

I tested out a new park today with hopes of finding some more silver. It was hot, but about every 20minutes I went back to the car for another drink.

Even had some cute young girls come up and start hitting on me. They quickly left after 1) they realized I wasn't golfing, 2) I wasn't 16 like they were, and 3) I wasn't interested.

One of the Mercs was in a coin spill with 3 wheats, all stuck together.

Total finds:

4 Mercury Dime - 1920, 1942, 1945 (2)
12 Wheats going back to 1909
Marble
Button that I need IDed. There is some writing on the back that I'm still trying to make out. I don't want to try and do too much cleaning until I have an idea if it's any good or not.

 

[PBK]

Re: Toady's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

The head on the button is a depiction of Mercury or Hermes, based on a sculpture by Praxiteles. Similar images appear on a number of 19th century classical/mythological motif buttons.

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[bazinga]

Re: Toady's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

The head on the button is a depiction of Mercury or Hermes, based on a sculpture by Praxiteles. Similar images appear on a number of 19th century classical/mythological motif buttons.

Thanks for the info. I will try to see what it says on the back and combine those two bits of info into a google search.

 

[bazinga]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

The maker of the button is:

Eingetr Muster

I'm finding some buttons by this maker, but not any like this one. I will continue my hunt.

 

[PBK]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

What would appear to be the same button— but without any reference to a backmark— appears in the "Mythology" section of Hughes & Lester's buttons book, Plate 172, No. 16, pp. 414-15.

"The head is of brass, applied as an escutcheon to a flat brass back."

 

[PBK]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

The maker of the button is:

Eingetr Muster

I'm finding some buttons by this maker, but not any like this one. I will continue my hunt.

Actually, it's not the name of the maker, but an abbreviation of Eingetragen Muster, which is German for, "Registered Pattern," i.e., "Registered Design."

 

[bazinga]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

You are one quick and talented individual PBK! Thanks for the information, I appreciate it. And thanks for helping me learn two new german words today!

 

[PBK]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

Glad I could help!

And those are probably the only two German words I know that I'd post!

 

[bazinga]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

Glad I could help!

And those are probably the only two German words I know that I'd post!

Haha, I knew a German foreign exchange student in high school that taught me a few words. I will refrain from posting them, though.

 

[LI Tom]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

Nice bunch Mercs and intresting button!You had a good day.

 

[time4me]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

Is this an old park that is no longer in use? I can't imagine finding a park that doesn't have hundreds of recent clad coins and screwcaps and pulltabs 1 to 3 inches deep, that make it seemingly impossible to find any deep older silver coins.

If you pulled out those 4 mercs and all of those wheaties and no clad, then you've found a glory hole for sure. I'd be spending all of my time in that park.

Great finds!!!!! That button is uber-cool.

Jim

 

[bazinga]

Re: Today's Silver and a Neat Button - ID Help Needed

Is this an old park that is no longer in use? I can't imagine finding a park that doesn't have hundreds of recent clad coins and screwcaps and pulltabs 1 to 3 inches deep, that make it seemingly impossible to find any deep older silver coins.

If you pulled out those 4 mercs and all of those wheaties and no clad, then you've found a glory hole for sure. I'd be spending all of my time in that park.

Great finds!!!!! That button is uber-cool.

Jim

The park is certainly still in use. The targets all were surrounded by iron and I just had to go slowly and pluck out the good signals. Many turned out to be nails, but as you can see there were a number of coins mixed in as well. And as soon as I would pull out a coin the hole would null out.