1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(French 9 Denier)

[mountainman 2]

1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(French 9 Denier)

Evening everyone. It was a nice afternoon after work so i got out to one of my old sites for a quick search. I was working a wooded area and was digging some square nails and horseshoe fragments, then got a reading high in the coin range. This quarter size coin was only about 3 or 4 inches deep. This was found about 10 feet from where a Jersey copper was recovered a couple years ago.
Can someone help me with an identification? The year on it is 1722 and there's an H below that. This would be my oldest coin find to date beating a 1755 Spanish Reale. HH-MM2

 

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[teleman 2525]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)

sorry dont know what it is but do certinly like it congrats on the find

 

[birdman]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)

Awesome and unusual coin.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

http://www.numissociety.com/showthread.php?472-Colonies-Francoises-1722
some info

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

It is a French coin--a 9 deniers.

 

[romeo-1]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

It's a French 9 Denier.

 

[romeo-1]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

Aarrggh...Cru and Bucks beat me by seconds...one of the few that I actually knew!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

Aarrggh...Cru and Bucks beat me by seconds...one of the few that I actually knew!

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

That is a beauty of a Colonial find! My hunting bud might have dug one, but apart from him this is the only other I've seen found. The "H" variety you have is a little more coomon I think than the one without.

 

[mountainman 2]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

Thank you for the replies and for the link. Would be interesting to know who would have carried that coin before i found it and what he was doing. Gotta love history.

 

[DMN]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(Need I.D.)

Wow. What else you say? Early colonial like that and in just one hour. You are efficient...and fortunate. That's a really nice example!

 

[mile-ender]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(French 9 Denier)

This is from Coins of Canada J.A. Haxby and R.C. Willey -
" The copper coins of 1721-1722, authorized by an edict of Louis XV dated June 1721, were struck on copper blanks imported from Sweden. Rouen and La Rochelle struck pieces of 9 deniers in 1721 and 1722. New France received 534,000 pieces, mostly from the mint of La Rochelle, but only 8,180 were successfully put into circulation as the colonists disliked copper. In 1726 the rest of the issue was sent back to France."
And as far as who was carrying it and what he was doing? Probably a fur trapper

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Re: 1 Hour hunt=1 Oldie (1722)(French 9 Denier)

Nice find