I found a hammered silver coin today

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Hey diggers,

Today I took off from work just to go detecting! The spot I wanted to detect is along an old medieval road that used to connect my village to a neighboring village. There's a nice patch of woods with a small knoll at the point where the road makes a sharp turn. It looked very promising on Google Earth. I invited 2 detecting friends to go with me. Tom and Justin arrived at my house about 8:30 and we headed off in the light rain.

We arrived at the site and was very pleased with how it looked in person. Right off the bat we each found a musket ball and then a bunch of bottle caps! I think a lot of Germans like to drink beer when they are hunting because there were beer caps all over the place! After about 30 minutes I got a very sweet 95 signal. It's one of those signals you KNOW is going to be good. I was very surprised to pop out a hammered silver coin at 4 inches deep! It's a 1707 2 Albus. To be honest I had never even heard of an albus before today! (not counting Harry Potter of course). It's the same size as a quarter and is my 15th hammered silver (and 30th silver coin overall) since arriving in March! Here's some pics and thanks for looking and commenting! Happy hunting, Dave.
 

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That coin is stunning, Dave! Holy cow, 311 years old! It still has incredible detail, and it's silver to boot! WONDERFUL!

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BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Don't trade that one!...well you can if you want to. Looks like a new avatar for you! Congrats
 
Another stunning coin! You're really doing well in Germany. So well in fact that you may get to spoiled and not want to hunt for our measly 100 year old coins. :lol:
 
What a stunning coin! One of our German Shepherd's is named Albus. He would love this coin! :lolsign:
 

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