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I finally went detecting again

GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭
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After I could not go metal detecting for almost 3 months due to my work schedule, yesterday I went to a local park again. Unfortunately I did not find anything good, just a few Euros, 2.11 Deutsche Mark, a totally destroyed 2 Pfennig coin from the 1870's and a 1862 kingdom of Hannover 2 Pfennig coin.


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  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    Also there were a lot of empty cans and bottles, I collected them, too.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    pocket change is always welcome. i do the bottle thing as well. its a good day when something is brought home

  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭✭

    Any coin from the 1800s, even copper, is considered a good find in America.

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    Today I returned to the park.
    Some change, a cross pendant and some buttons of undetermined age, a 1874 2 Pfennig coin and a 1804 1 Pfennig coin from Hessen-Darmstadt.


  • CRHer700CRHer700 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Göttinger said:
    After I could not go metal detecting for almost 3 months due to my work schedule, yesterday I went to a local park again. Unfortunately I did not find anything good, just a few Euros, 2.11 Deutsche Mark, a totally destroyed 2 Pfennig coin from the 1870's and a 1862 kingdom of Hannover 2 Pfennig coin.


    I know that it isn't rare or anything, but I noticed that your 10 pfennig is a 1949, with the original motto: Bank Deutscher Lander.

    God bless all who believe in him. Do unto others what you expect to be done to you. Dubbed a "Committee Secret Agent" by @mr1931S on 7/23/24. Founding member of CU Anti-Troll League since 9/24/24.

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    @CRHer700 said:

    @Göttinger said:
    After I could not go metal detecting for almost 3 months due to my work schedule, yesterday I went to a local park again. Unfortunately I did not find anything good, just a few Euros, 2.11 Deutsche Mark, a totally destroyed 2 Pfennig coin from the 1870's and a 1862 kingdom of Hannover 2 Pfennig coin.


    I know that it isn't rare or anything, but I noticed that your 10 pfennig is a 1949, with the original motto: Bank Deutscher Lander.

    Yeah, that's right! Even though the "Bank Deutscher Länder" coins have a pretty high mintage, I don't find them too often.
    Actually I rarely ever find the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" 1, 5 & 10 Pfennig coins aswell as the younger 2 Penning coins. They give me a small iron signal which I usually don't dig.
    But one time a friend invited me to one of his permissions, where we found a stolen cash register from the early 1990's. All the high denomination coins were removed, but the thief had left well over 1000 of the low denomination coins inside.
    The rust had clumped them together, but a bath in WD40 really helped. There were dozens of 1949 "Bank Deutscher Länder" coins amongst them.

  • CRHer700CRHer700 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Göttinger said:

    @CRHer700 said:

    @Göttinger said:
    After I could not go metal detecting for almost 3 months due to my work schedule, yesterday I went to a local park again. Unfortunately I did not find anything good, just a few Euros, 2.11 Deutsche Mark, a totally destroyed 2 Pfennig coin from the 1870's and a 1862 kingdom of Hannover 2 Pfennig coin.


    I know that it isn't rare or anything, but I noticed that your 10 pfennig is a 1949, with the original motto: Bank Deutscher Lander.

    Yeah, that's right! Even though the "Bank Deutscher Länder" coins have a pretty high mintage, I don't find them too often.
    Actually I rarely ever find the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" 1, 5 & 10 Pfennig coins aswell as the younger 2 Penning coins. They give me a small iron signal which I usually don't dig.
    But one time a friend invited me to one of his permissions, where we found a stolen cash register from the early 1990's. All the high denomination coins were removed, but the thief had left well over 1000 of the low denomination coins inside.
    The rust had clumped them together, but a bath in WD40 really helped. There were dozens of 1949 "Bank Deutscher Länder" coins amongst them.

    Wow. That would be a super fun find.

    God bless all who believe in him. Do unto others what you expect to be done to you. Dubbed a "Committee Secret Agent" by @mr1931S on 7/23/24. Founding member of CU Anti-Troll League since 9/24/24.

  • jgoetz4jgoetz4 Posts: 41 ✭✭

    Congratulations. It's always good to get out when you can :)
    Jim

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    Time goes by so fast...
    Today I finally went searching again. Unfortunately I didn't even find a coin or button, but still there were two interesting finds:

    • A very tiny 10 K ring (I doubt that the stones are real, I have not tested them yet). 10 K gold isn't that common here, usually we use 8 K, 14 K and 18 K.
    • A broken clay pipe, just the bowl to be precise. Probably 1700's, I don't know how to date them. In over 15 years of mud larking and 4 years of metal detecting this is actually my first clay tobacco pipe ever. Kind of weired that it took me so long.


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