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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4290335, member: 74834"]I started collecting coins when I was ten years old. Ever since that momentous beginning, I have been observantly looking into pits, ditches, trenches, potholes, ponds, tombs, excavations, ramps, slants, escarpments, roadsides, shores, banks, edges, coasts, littorals, caves, holes, embankments, earthworks, ramparts, burrows and fresh heaps of sand (still do). Always on the look for jars, urns or rotten bags. Always hoping for the pot of gold at the root of the rainbow, always pining for a hoard, expecting the treasure to stick its small but promising tip out of the ground. I've even sown unusual coins out of the window or in a wood, by way of a libation to propitiate the Coin Finding Gods.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this I found. The only coin that presented itself to me - from the muddy banks of a lake. It's not the real one, for that is somewhere safe in the house in a forgotten box - forgotten by me in any case. But it looks much like it.</p><p>It was at the shore of a lake in southern Czechia near Cesky Krumlov on the river Vltava (Moldau), where me and my family were on holiday, almost fifty years ago:</p><p>The Only Coin I Found Myself In The Wild. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092124[/ATTACH] , </p><p><br /></p><p>Austria, Two Groschen 1925. 19 mm, 3.3 gr. Possibly bronze, but its color is grey, drab, unpresentable. It was and is worth virtually nothing. The most benevolent way of describing might mention the heavy-booted effort to use an art-deco design. Dirty, sad and cheap, my hoard is. Sorry, Coin Finding Gods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4290335, member: 74834"]I started collecting coins when I was ten years old. Ever since that momentous beginning, I have been observantly looking into pits, ditches, trenches, potholes, ponds, tombs, excavations, ramps, slants, escarpments, roadsides, shores, banks, edges, coasts, littorals, caves, holes, embankments, earthworks, ramparts, burrows and fresh heaps of sand (still do). Always on the look for jars, urns or rotten bags. Always hoping for the pot of gold at the root of the rainbow, always pining for a hoard, expecting the treasure to stick its small but promising tip out of the ground. I've even sown unusual coins out of the window or in a wood, by way of a libation to propitiate the Coin Finding Gods. And this I found. The only coin that presented itself to me - from the muddy banks of a lake. It's not the real one, for that is somewhere safe in the house in a forgotten box - forgotten by me in any case. But it looks much like it. It was at the shore of a lake in southern Czechia near Cesky Krumlov on the river Vltava (Moldau), where me and my family were on holiday, almost fifty years ago: The Only Coin I Found Myself In The Wild. [ATTACH=full]1092124[/ATTACH] , Austria, Two Groschen 1925. 19 mm, 3.3 gr. Possibly bronze, but its color is grey, drab, unpresentable. It was and is worth virtually nothing. The most benevolent way of describing might mention the heavy-booted effort to use an art-deco design. Dirty, sad and cheap, my hoard is. Sorry, Coin Finding Gods.[/QUOTE]
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