What a beautiful day today was. My only day off, I decided to spend a couple hrs at a site that has been producing well. I slowed the DFX down to granny gear and decided to really focus. IT paid off very well. In between the iron grunts I found another marine button (Not but 3 ft away from the other one I recently found). I figured with just this button alone, my hunt has been a success....but 30 minutes later cruising along at a whoppin 00000.9 mph I got a nice chirp in between the nails and iron....I scanned from every direction and got iron, but a consistent chirp at penny/dime. Not a good signal, but what the heck....I dig down, use my pinpointer...square nail...ahhh...I stand back up...rescan the hole....SOLID penny/dime to quarter signal......I run my pinpointer back in the hole and there it was, this beautiful 1827 Large Cent at 6 inches deep. I'm very happy. So I start up again...cruising along...got the nice designed button...happier......So, then I decided to focus some attention in between the cellar hole and the barn foundation, the barn hole is pretty far away from the homesites so I picked a line and started swingin....I get all the way to the barn...which way to go? left or right...I went right and about 40 ft away from the barn site I got a beautiful Penny/Dime signal 5.5 inches.....I carefully dig my plug (assuming everything is a coin) and sure enough, the pinpointer buzzes and out pops this colonial copper! I was very excited now, I've never dug 2 coppers in one hunt! What a great feeling!.....pretty sure my wife is gonna be upset with me I decided to take on more pass back towards the cellar holes and call it day....half way to the cellar hole...I get a nice screwcap reading and out pops this neat flat button....It has a London backmark and on the back it says no.13.....It once had something on the front....I'd like to think that this was a military button...but I don't know.....anyhow...Could someone please help me ID the colonial copper? I'm not certain of what it is. Thanks for lookin!
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nah j/k dude
Originally Posted by randy
Hopefully it's a III. Better chance of state coins being lost there too. If it's a George I, that makes it real old, and not many copper options back then. Also, there is a chance of it being a counterfeit (Machin Mills) George III too.
Now I don't think it was that high, but it was a common practice (profitable too) to counterfiet them coppers. After all, was George gonna sail over here and get you? rofl If you can get a date that would help in telling if it were real or not.
