Metal Detecting

Hi All,

During a short, two hour session last week I found this. It's crazy, but I've been over this field/area dozens of times and so have my friends (using various machines). This time I was using my Nokta Legend on M3 with depth sensitivity at 28 ( the ID was 28, the same as a piece of gold foil about 1 ft away - I nearly passed over it completely). Anyway, soil conditions are really dry there and it was on an angle about 4 inches deep.

You can hopefully see a marking "Silver 5". There is a suggestion that this is because it is made from a German 5 mark coin sometime between 1901 and 1907. If anyone can verify that I would be really grateful?

Also, I have no idea what the gem is and/or wether it is artificial or real. Any advice on how to find that out would also be appreciated.

KR

DH

A Scottish style brooch. The silver 5 may indicate a lower purity?

The stone looks like a Citrine to me. Nice find.

Looks like silver. The 5 can refer to the size of the stone. Try searching for Cairngorn Silver Kilt Pins. Cairngorm is Scottish Citrine.

That would have been very attractive indeed, lovely find.

Sterling silver bar brooch. Silver items below a quarter of an ounce weren't required to be hallmarked. Late Victorian to WW2.