KG II Halfpenny, buttons, chape, musket ball

Lodge Scent

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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.

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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.

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Toasted, but it gave up a date.

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

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Good luck!

Jeff
 
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:
 
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.
 
Skamaniac link=topic=12743.msg135995#msg135995 date=1363664572 said:
The only thing over 200 years old I've ever seen was my first grade teacher.
<} rofl

Tony Two-Cent link=topic=12743.msg135986#msg135986 date=1363658656 said:
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:
 

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