coinman123
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Patriot's Day Copper!!
I was metal detecting for a few hours today and got a pretty nice copper. I started out my hunt without a single signal for around an hour, than I went to a different area of the site where I have found some nice colonial finds and started finding stuff. My metal detector was chattering so much I was ready to throw it in a ditch, I decided to re coil the coil's wire right in the middle of the hunt and was glad I did, almost no chattering whatsoever. Anyways, I got a nice signal at around 7", I dug it and it turned out to be a colonial dandy button, I was really hoping for a coin though. Some time later I got a pull tab signal on my metal detecting and was thinking that it is going to be a shotgun shell, funny enough out pops a nice copper, not extremely deep either. I metal detected for another hour or so and did not find anything but an old brass belt or horse buckle.
The funniest thing of all is that today is Patriot's Day and I found a 1774 King George III Copper, I was amused by such a funny coincidence.
I'm wondering if it could be a contemporary counterfeit because it looks like it could be one, what do you think?
Before Cleaning
After Cleaning
Thanks for Looking, Coinman123
I was metal detecting for a few hours today and got a pretty nice copper. I started out my hunt without a single signal for around an hour, than I went to a different area of the site where I have found some nice colonial finds and started finding stuff. My metal detector was chattering so much I was ready to throw it in a ditch, I decided to re coil the coil's wire right in the middle of the hunt and was glad I did, almost no chattering whatsoever. Anyways, I got a nice signal at around 7", I dug it and it turned out to be a colonial dandy button, I was really hoping for a coin though. Some time later I got a pull tab signal on my metal detecting and was thinking that it is going to be a shotgun shell, funny enough out pops a nice copper, not extremely deep either. I metal detected for another hour or so and did not find anything but an old brass belt or horse buckle.
The funniest thing of all is that today is Patriot's Day and I found a 1774 King George III Copper, I was amused by such a funny coincidence.
I'm wondering if it could be a contemporary counterfeit because it looks like it could be one, what do you think?
Before Cleaning
After Cleaning
Thanks for Looking, Coinman123
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