Every little piece has its story...

[Jean-Loup]

Every piece has its story... we just usualy dont know what that story is.
Here is a 5 Pfenig coin that looks perfectly normal... except for some very small damage on the side indicated by the grey dots.

[Jean-Loup]

Interestingly, the other side of the coin has identical damage... What could have done this?

[Jean-Loup]

This coin is actualy much more then a simple coin... It is in fact an alien body!!! An esophageal alien body...
I found it on the floor in front of some old medical faculty "decorations" in Croatia that you can see below. A bunch of objects found in people esophaguses: buttons, coins, pieces of bone; etc.
The marks on the coin are apparently the traces left by the surgeons forcebs when he took it out. Who swallowed this coin, and when, is unknown of course.

JL

[joeimwalle]

wild stuff

wow that is some odd stuff to swallow.

i think i see a few fish hooks on that placard.

maybe a young boy ate that coin as there was no other food to eat in germany during the late stages of ww2?
just kidding
who knows how any of those items end up eaten.
pretty cool display item.

joe

[Jean-Loup]

Here are some closer up view of some of the other "esophageal aliens".

[Jean-Loup]

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[Jean-Loup]

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[Jean-Loup]

By the way, did I tell you guys about my last digging expedition where I found a live shell still in the breach of a canon?

[Glenn Barbaritz]

oh boy, that X ray looks abit incriminating. how do you explain that to your captain. Glenn

[Bob Carter]

Ah, What were you expecting to find digging there ?