Found some stuff today at an old school site..

Found two indian head pennies. 1892 and 1900. A nice 1909 wheatie, no V.D.B or S. a 1964 rosie. You guys know what the foreign coin is?

 

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Man, I gotta get a metal detector. How cool!

 

I beleive the foerign coin is a German one pfenning...Yeah, thats what it is. From nazi Germany,1943.

 

Thats what it is allright,i bought a couple of those years ago at the flea market,not too valuable but a real interesting piece of history.

 

Was it the "Swastika",the "1 Reichspfennig",the "1943" or the "Deutsches Reich" that makes you think that? LOL
Jusy kiddin'!

 

Yeah, I know. I was stating the obvious. I just looked at it so quick, I didn't even pay attention to the date and the swastika the first time.

 

What's interesting to me is the spread of dates. The cents were easily in circulation together, but the dime is decades younger. What makes the place you found them one where people have been losing coins for so long, do you reckon?

 

It was an old school site. Thats why the spread of dated coins. Any old spot where people have gathered through the years has a wide variety of dated coins and items. Jim

 

i've found coins with my metal detector but nothing like that. great find.

 

Kinda sounds like some kid lost his coin collection.

 

Really nice find.. I have a question.. How deep did you have to dig to find them.. I look alot... but I sure don't find much.. Most of the time..mine says 8 inch's or more.. and I can't get that deep( cause it makes really big blisters) grins.. and when I dig the 2-4 inch down, I just find new coins...

 

Most old coins are in the 4-8 inch range. Shouldn't get blisters, what ya using to dig with? Location, Location, Location. Jim

 

Are these coins you find in the ground worth anything numismatically though?

 

Yes they are. I just sold an 1878 indian head penny for $40.00 and a 1890 Indian head for $21.00 on the bay. Plus sold a lot of em last winter.

 

That's really fantastic! I want a metal detector now!

 

Greetings from a fellow detector. The German coins is zinc based and will ozidize FAST. The German Reich used the precious metals for the war effort so their wartime coinage was pretty much "junk" metal. I have quite a few and you can greatly slow down the oxidation if you use Renaissance Wax. It is a micro crystalline wax that museums use to preserve their valuable metal objects. I use an old Fisher 1265x and it still finds me treasures.

Greg

 

Man, awesome! I need to take you with me, went metal detecting after Christmas and all I found were Fire Ants. (Didn't take any home as souvenirs! )

Phoenix

 

Where abouts in Michigan are ya Greg?

 

...SE part....Lenawee County...City of Tecumseh

Greg

 

How do you metal detect when the ground is covered with snow? Isn't there snow on the ground in Michigan