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Decided to walk the field in lengths today. Glad I did. Scored 2 colonial coppers - one a 1771 KGIII, the other is too far gone to get a date. Here they are in their plugs (bc I know dirty coins are like porn :P)
The cleaned pics:
1771 King George III Halfpenny
Undated King George II Halfpenny
Also got 6 buttons and two broken buckle pieces:
Buckle pieces:
"Best Quality" backmarked button (20mm):
Other buttons ~ Nickel is for reference. Only the one has any obverse patterns:
And some other small oddities:
1930 Montgomery County dog license tag:
I think this is a lead seal or part of one, at least:
Some lead bullets ~ Left is a spent shotgun slug, far right are spent .22s; the middle one is bigger than .45 but smaller than .50; any ideas?
But the crown jewel of the day ~ and this even beats out my 1911 quarter eagle, imho ~ was THIS:
There's enough detail to see it's a 1793 Flowing Hair large cent with the reverse wreath. The edge is reeded and I think lettered but I haven't done any cleaning other than to brush away most of the dirt and a peroxide dip. I can see most of the date.
Damn, what a weekend...!
CLEANING UPDATES
The pics shown above are after the initial round of cold peroxide dips that I did. At hogge's recommendation, I did two more with heated peroxide. Here they are:
If you think that's an improvement, please say so, so I know I'm doing this right. Taking it one step at a time here...
The cleaned pics:
1771 King George III Halfpenny
Undated King George II Halfpenny
Also got 6 buttons and two broken buckle pieces:
Buckle pieces:
"Best Quality" backmarked button (20mm):
Other buttons ~ Nickel is for reference. Only the one has any obverse patterns:
And some other small oddities:
1930 Montgomery County dog license tag:
I think this is a lead seal or part of one, at least:
Some lead bullets ~ Left is a spent shotgun slug, far right are spent .22s; the middle one is bigger than .45 but smaller than .50; any ideas?
But the crown jewel of the day ~ and this even beats out my 1911 quarter eagle, imho ~ was THIS:
There's enough detail to see it's a 1793 Flowing Hair large cent with the reverse wreath. The edge is reeded and I think lettered but I haven't done any cleaning other than to brush away most of the dirt and a peroxide dip. I can see most of the date.
Damn, what a weekend...!
CLEANING UPDATES
The pics shown above are after the initial round of cold peroxide dips that I did. At hogge's recommendation, I did two more with heated peroxide. Here they are:
If you think that's an improvement, please say so, so I know I'm doing this right. Taking it one step at a time here...
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That's what you get for listening to people like that HOGGE guy....and Iron Patch and Don in SJ. What do they know anyways!!!
You should have left all that active PVC on there! And now you might as well forget about sealing it with something and completely ruining it by bringing out all the detail in it!
The whole coin is what I'd call "dark chocolate". 
Dread Pirate Robertses 
on every cleaned dug coin, wouldn't it? 
I personally, get picked on by several others for comments I have made, (and wrong variety ID's with coins), nothing personal, just my brand of humor and sarcasm. 
