earthmansurfer
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Well, it finally happened. Finding a regular silver coin seems a bit hard in Germany. Though I've found quite a few coins dating back from the late 1800's I never found a silver until coin period until this last Thursday. I was using my T2 at 90 sensitivity, 21 discrimination and 2+ tones. The GB was around 75 I think. I got a very good signal at around an ID of 91. Never got one that high before, except maybe on a few bottle caps. It said it was 5" deep. I checked it in 3B mode and it rang good still. Using my knife I dug a 5" square plug. At around 3" or 4" down my Garret pro pointer told me it was in the corner of the hole. (Honestly, not to sound like an advertisement and I have no affiliation with them, but if I had my old kellyco free one, I would have cut into the coin not knowing it was in the corner. I just got the pin pointer a week before!) I used my hand to get more dirt out and saw what I thought was a piece of ceramic. It was about 5" or 6" down. I was shocked when I held it and thought it must be silver. I saw the Swastika on it and knew it was one of the Third Reich silver coins I had only read about. It is a 1936 Swastika Hindenburg 2 Reichsmark.There were only 800,000 made in 1936, the first year of this particular coin. It is actually worth a bit though I won't ever sell it of course. I soaked it in soap and water for two days. As you can see it's in near perfect condition. Even though it's a part of a dark history, it symbolizes a way that didn't work to me. A nice piece of history. (I can't forget that ever, I find the occasional Third Reich Swastika coins, as I found one today, in addition to 4 unfired machine gun bullets from WWII and bomb fragments). A small writeup follows.
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