KG II Halfpenny, buttons, chape, musket ball

[Lodge Scent]

Revisited a couple of sites with a couple of buddies on Sunday. The easy pickins were long gone but we all managed good finds. I pulled some nice buttons, a chape and tongue, musket ball and a toasty 1740 King George II halfpenny.

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j364/jeffhdfx2/2013-03-18_11-57-44_648_zpsb5c62fc7.jpg

I dug the KG from the base of a huge boulder. Someone must have sat against it a couple of hundred years ago and lost their halfpenny.

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j364/jeffhdfx2/2013-03-17_10-34-17_921_zps40d19d3d.jpg

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j364/jeffhdfx2/2013-03-17_10-35-51_915_zps30fcf1b0.jpg

Toasted, but it gave up a date.

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j364/jeffhdfx2/2013-03-18_12-00-24_133_zps21935777.jpg

Found this small egg shaped lead piece. The hole only goes in about a quarter inch so it is not a fishing weight ??

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j364/jeffhdfx2/2013-03-18_12-03-13_173_zps06c8e469.jpg

Good luck!

Jeff

[Tony Two-Cent]

Very nice hunt, Jeff! Congrats on the 1740 King George II Halfpenny and the colonial relics! I can't even imagine finding a coin that's 273 years old!

:wow:

[Lodge Scent]

Well Tony, if you ever find your way up to MA, I will be happy to give you a shot at finding one.

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

very nice hunt!

[Skamaniac]

Hunting the east coast would be so awesome! Here on the west coast anything prior to 1900 is considered old. The only thing over 200 years old I've ever seen was my first grade teacher.

[Ill Digger]

The only thing over 200 years old I've ever seen was my first grade teacher.
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I can't even imagine finding a coin that's 273 years old!

I'm with Tony. Here in Illinois, finding a coin that old is pretty much impossible. :crying02: :envious:
So it's always great to see one found ! :clapping:
Great find!
Congrats! :grin:

[OxShoeDrew]

Some nice digs....continued success. |:cheering:

[del]

congrats on the copper Jeff |:cheering: |:cheering:

[aloldstuff]

Nice hunting and :congrats: on the keepers.