WWI relic .. :minelab:

[MNCoinhunter]

I dug this saturday at a 100+ year old farm up here. It is a WWI German Veteran Honor Medal. I can only imagine the story behind this medal making it's way to northern Minnesota. The brothers that own the farm could only guess that maybe a relative brought it home as a souvenir from WWI. Pretty cool !!

It says "Furg Dagerland" ... which translates to "For Fatherland" .... 1914

 

[Elton]

Sure would be interesting to know the whole story of how that Got to Minnesota wouldn't it.
Were they issued during, or after the War ??

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Sure would be interesting to know the whole story of how that Got to Minnesota wouldn't it.
Were they issued during, or after the War ??

Thanks !

My guess would be "after" the war ended.

 

[Sailorman]

Now that's a cool find!

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

That goes back almost 100 years great find McDave

 

[scubadetector]

n/t

 

[Hotcz70]

Nice find Dave.

Imagine the story that medal could tell.

 

[GunnarMN]

say my uncle brought home all kinds of nazi relicks after the war to milaca MN he got a nazy flag and lots of other things so it was a common practice, what a cool find , and a few of our relicks wound up over thear .

 

[Ron from Michigan]

McDave,nice interesting find.Thanks for sharing.Ron

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Thanks everyone.

I am thinking that it probably isn't a souvenir brought home from the war, since it was likely issued to veterans after the war ended. Although I am not certain of this .. I think that a German WWI vet immigrated here and brought it with them. How it ended up in this particular yard is another story ..

 

[birdman]

Love it.That thing does have a story.

 

[hatpin]

Thats a beautiful medal.