Metal Detecting

Hi just asking , do people often find foreign coins? I've only been detecting for a few months and have found 2 old foreign coins in a 2 acre field in West Sussex. 1- Austrian Ein Kreuzer 1816, 2- Dutch Zeelandia 176?

I've been detecting in the UK for just over a year and so far I've found coins from:
India
Spain - pesetas
Germany - D mark
France - Franc
Hong Kong
England - as far back as the 1720's (the past is another country....)

Awesome....never know what is just around laying there in your next hole.

boris76 wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:01 am Hi just asking , do people often find foreign coins?

Hi Boris

There is an excellent selection of the foreign coins our members find in the thread: viewforum.php?f=312

Brad

Your Dutch coin is a Duit (the Dutch pronounce it as DOWT) from the province of Zeeland.Druits from various provinces are not rare to find here in the UK.I have found numerous foreign coins over the years,the early ones probably lost by traders or maybe even brought back by soldiers in the old Empire days.Usually they are copper,early foreign silver tends to be rare.

It's always been the same. Even a proportion of gold staters and hammered coins originated abroad.

My only foreign coins are Swiss and Croatian but nothing that old.