Crazy coin find from Iceland, toasted LC, update with another LC!

[Bramblefind]

I've been hunting a home site where the circa 1800 house was intentionally burned down this winter to make way for progress The site was settled around the mid-late 1700s but I have yet to find anything older than 20th C. This was a country farmhouse and from what I've been told it didn't even have indoor plumbing until the 1960s or 70s. During the last week I've started finding a few keepers - 2 mercury dimes 1920 & 1940 and then I still can't believe it - but a 1965 5 Island Aurar from Iceland! So wild!!

Today I went to a different site - a large Colonial field that has been hunted many, many times. I was only able to wrangle some iron, some lead - including a big musket ball - weighs 27g! A toasted large cent (#3 copper for me this year!) and a broken butterfly barrette. I will be back there though - I love the challenges

Thanks for looking!

Here's a picture I took last month or what remains of the 1800 house-

 

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[Iron Patch]

Re: Crazy coin find from Iceland, toasted LC and other stuff

Do you think the Iceland coin and 27 gram musket ball are some how connected?

 

[Bramblefind]

Do you think the Iceland coin and 27 gram musket ball are some how connected?

I wasn't sure until today when I found the Chinese coin!

Neat finds! I would go back again too!

Yes! Went back to the burned house today and broke into the early 19th c - I think with another large cent!

Also a Chinese coin - just to keep the random theme going Two wheats and a buffalo nickel.

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice Lc, looks to be a Turban Head 1808-1814.. MR TUFF

 

[Bramblefind]

nice Lc, looks to be a Turban Head 1808-1814.. MR TUFF

Thanks! I was thinking that - thanks for the confirmation. I might be able to get the date if I clean more but I already cleaned it a lot so I will be content with the time span and just leave her be.

#4 LC so far this year - only got 5 all last year. I must be getting the hang of this

 

[Don in SJ]

VARIETY!! Nothing like finding the unexpected at those sites. Glad the burned out site produced some oldies on your last hunt there. Looks like you will be doing just fine this year with the relics and older coins........

Don

 

[steelheadwill]

Nice Finds!
Silver, Copper, & Iceland
Are you sure that coin is Chinese? most have square holes, or none.
I have a Japanese with a round hole.
Congrats on the early Copper

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Wow, I can remember when you were first starting out. Now your finding some great stuff!

Congrats

 

[Bramblefind]

VARIETY!! Nothing like finding the unexpected at those sites. Glad the burned out site produced some oldies on your last hunt there. Looks like you will be doing just fine this year with the relics and older coins........

Don

Thank you Don I hope so - I will definitely be trying!

Wow, I can remember when you were first starting out. Now your finding some great stuff!

Congrats

Thanks Mike! I still have a lot to learn - but I sure am having a blast!

Nice Finds!
Silver, Copper, & Iceland
Are you sure that coin is Chinese? most have square holes, or none.
I have a Japanese with a round hole.
Congrats on the early Copper

Herbie! Thank you for noticing - that is very interesting! I just took a quick look at the coin and dismissed it without looking at it closely. What crazy finds for this place! I found that coin in the back of where the house once faced -in the middle of a field

Anyway - here are better pics of it - let me know what you think:

 

[Iron Patch]

Ironhorse has a shore site that he found 7 or 8 old coins from different countries all on the same hunt. Strange things happen.

 

[steelheadwill]

looks like you scored a Japan 10 yen!
I got a bunch of Chinese coinage, Best one? either a 1700s Chien-Lung Brass,
or a silver 20C from the turn of the century.
The orientals can be somewhat difficult to ID, got a Taiwanese that took a while.
Great Finds & good work on those Coppers!
http://www2m.biglobe.ne.jp/%7EZenTech/money/coin/en_p11_japan.htm

 

[Bramblefind]

looks like you scored a Japan 10 yen!
I got a bunch of Chinese coinage, Best one? either a 1700s Chien-Lung Brass,
or a silver 20C from the turn of the century.
The orientals can be somewhat difficult to ID, got a Taiwanese that took a while.
Great Finds & good work on those Coppers!
http://www2m.biglobe.ne.jp/%7EZenTech/money/coin/en_p11_japan.htm

Thank you! Very cool Maybe someone at the house was a coin collector in the 60s So odd - but fun for me!