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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HandsomeToad, post: 370897, member: 12965&quot;]Wowie Eduard! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don&#039;t you wonder what happened for someone to lose that much money in one spot (two silver coins over 200 years ago was a lot of money to lose)? Of course, I&#039;m speaking about the Austrian coins, since, like you said, it&#039;s unusual to find any Austrian coins in that area so to find two, logically speaking, means they came from the same source and considering the dates are close, that bolsters the probability of both being from the same source. But then, what about the other items also found near those two coins? Is there a tie between any of them, other than the two Austrian coins? A thimble, a brooch, and either a mirror or a frame . . . that spells . . . a woman! So, we have a woman who lost a few items in the same area someone else lost two coins . . . sounds like a &quot;midnight rendezvous&quot; to me!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, a few coins fell out of the man&#039;s pants as he hurriedly put them back on as the girl&#039;s father was calling her, or maybe it was the man&#039;s wife, and they had to scurry to keep him/her from finding out the truth and left the items behind by accident! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is so intriguing! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ribbit <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ps: By looking at the two Austrian coins, it appears the loss occurred close to 1785. The 1768 looks like it had about 20 years of wear and the 1785 looks close to mint, so that helps to date the loss (around 1790). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Pps: With the Seal, maybe the man was a Jewish Rabbi? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ppps: This all just gave me a great idea. Someone, who&#039;s an avid metal detector (like yourself Eduard), should take a days finds and post them on here and get us to make up a story about how all the items were lost. It would be fun to try and tie in a group of items of unknown origin and give them an origin.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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