Found a Buffalo nickel today

[david764]

I found my first buffalo nickel today and a wheat penny both coins were in bad shape and i could not read the dates on either one.

 

[cwilk]

Is that a real gun? Interesting finds and coins. Been a long time since I found a Buffalo Nickel. I frequently find those Clorox caps when I hunt old houses. They are always in pretty good shape too.

Chris

 

[david764]

The gun is not real I think it is a cap gun .

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

n/t

 

[dahut]

... no such pistols were ever marked "Luger." They were in fact the P08 The Parabellum-Pistole incorrectly known by the name of their designer Georg Luger.
They were never made of pot metal, never had pins in the barrel or other than full frames. It's a die cast toy, most likely a cap gun. Heres' a pic of the real deal:

PO8 Pistol

But its still a neat find! I was detecting a month or so ago and found a full size copy of a Beretta M92 - it was a cigarette lighter!
My heat skipped a beat, I assure you.

 

[Uncle Willy]

I used to have a dandy gun lighter and lost the sucker. There was also the P-38 a clone of the Luger. What was the name of the WWII German machine pistol. It escapes me at the moment.

Bill

 

[treasurefiend]

Congrats on your first Buffalo Nickel!!!!

 

[dahut]

I used to have a dandy gun lighter and lost the sucker. There was also the P-38 a clone of the Luger. What was the name of the WWII German machine pistol. It escapes me at the moment.
Bill

Actually the P-38 was a very different design, and was the successor to the P08. It was designed by Walther and was the first double action, locked breech autoloader to see service. Heres a pic:
P-38
The Wehrmacht's standard sub-caliber machine gun, or 'machinen pistole' was the "Schmeisser" P-38 and later MP-40. As it turns out, that too, was an erroneous name. The Schmeisser firm DID have it's own design, but it was not very robust and was prone to failure.
Both the MP-38 and the improved MP-40 saw widespread use. As I recall, the Wehrmacht was the first army to employ to advantage the subcaliber automatic fire machine gun in squad service.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then every other belligerent at the time paid homage to them by copying their methods.