Who Says You Need To Leave Home To Find Foreign Treasure?

[FutureProspect784]

About four months ago, I was detecting in a public park about 10 minutes from my house in our capital city of Charlottetown here on Prince Edward. The park's history has a fairly long history, however it is an area that has been heavily hunted throughout the years by many detectorists. Anyway, I had a few hours to kill one Saturday morning in September, so an outing to the park was in order. I decided to keep mainly to the small, somewhat overgrown footpaths, as I knew that if there was anything else of value to be found, that would be where I would find it. So I'm sweeping along with my detector, digging up the odd bottle cap and clad coin, when I get this fairly faint signal by a tree. I set to digging it, cutting my way through a multitude of tree roots, until finally I had located my target: a circular-shaped object, which at first glance I thought to be a washer, as it had a neat little hole through the center. However, since I never discard anything that is coin-shaped until I go over it with a fine-toothed comb, I put it in my pocket and continued on my merry way.

When I got home later that morning, I dug out my washer, and proceeded to carefully remove some of the encrusted dirt, enough to distinguish any possible markings. Imagine my surprise when, under a magnifying glass, I could just barely make out parts of an inscription, enough to prove that it was in fact a coin or a token of some sort. Over the next few weeks, I kept cleaning it up, and last night I was finally able to figure out exactly what it was: An Egyptian 5 Milliemes (Nickel) coin minted in 1917! Needless to say, I was a tad floored.

Here's a picture I found on the internet of the coin (my own pics didn't turn out so well):

Long story short, this is probably my best find so far (and strangest!) in my four years of detecting.

 

[RON (PA)]

That is a very nice surprise. Thanks for sharing.


Welcome aboard. Glad to have you with us.

 

[phantomfinder]

WTG , that is a cool find

 

[potsie]

Cool!! Is yours fairly good condition like the one in the picture?

 

[sniffer]

now that's called patience

 

[FutureProspect784]

Cool!! Is yours fairly good condition like the one in the picture?

Unfortunately, no, the surface of the coin has been fairly worn. You can make out inscriptions with the naked eye, however you need a magnifying glass to be able to read them.

 

[woody50]

That's the way to do it, Future, take everything you can back home and clean it up and look carefully!

 

[Urban Grund]

Cool find indeed!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice old foreign coin

 

[ivan salis]

egypt was a british protecturate around WW1 era 1917 --- canadian soldier (sent from the british commonwealth) over there most likely brought it home as a sovie item and lost it. quire nice.

 

[FutureProspect784]

egypt was a british protecturate around WW1 era 1917 --- canadian soldier (sent from the british commonwealth) over there most likely brought it home as a sovie item and lost it. quire nice.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Ray S S]

Wow, it can sure surprise you what you can find under the surface of the ground. Some things that you never would expect to find at the place where you are standing. It sure keeps the hobby interresting.

Ray karenray08