2 largies - both foreign dang it!

[lrgoodger]

Hit a new 1872 house site Saturday way back in the field. There was lots of brick fragments and ceramic pottery bits. There was something big in that house made of brass. I got 15 pieces of it, some of them weighing several ounces each. They all hit in the high 80s and low 90s on the Deus II, so naturally I was always hoping it was a coin. The site did yield two coins. They took some serious scrubbing with the Andres pencils, but I got the dates on both. Fortunately, the date sides did clean up a bit. The other side did not on either piece, but at least I was able to identify them. That bank of upper Canada penny is huge! Bigger than a half dollar. It banged a loud 96 in both directions from a depth of about 5 or 6 inches. The kicker on the 1816 Austrian coin is that they used the same die all the way up to 1852, so there is no way of knowing which year it was actually minted. It's a little larger than a quarter and hit a solid 93 both ways. At least I got the rush of finding two oldies, even if they were foreign.

 

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Excellent finds - congrats !
Nothing wrong with finding old foreign coins at all - less common than our coins !

 

[Gare]

Way to go BUDDY !!! Tell Jerry I said Hello]