3 large cents - one with counterstamp, and 16 buttons!

[testing123]

Got out today to a new spot. Within 10 minutes a tombac button revealed itself! Within an hour or so, this place yielded 6 or so buttons. Not too bad, but where are the coins?? They didn't come until a little later, but they showed up! Right after getting another button, about 5 feel past, a good, deeper coin signal popped up. Must've been about 6 or so inches down, but I could see what looked like a slightly oval copper disc? Since it was mostly round I assumed it was a large cent! Put it away and kept going. About 5 minutes later another deeper coin signal revealed itself!! YES, another large cent. After several buttons later, and nearing the end of the hunt, a third large cent popped out! Ended with 16 buttons, a one day record for me, and 3 coppers ties my one day best.

One of the buttons had the center part pop out, so be sure to look at those "washers" more closely, as it could be a button where the center popped out. See some of the pics below. After cleaning, all three largies look to be Matron heads, no dates readable yet. BUT, the oval one turns out to be counterstamped! That's a first for me. Any idea what it is? Almost looks like a DNILES? NILES? NILLS?

This charges up the detecting motivation. You bet I'll be back this week. This field is HUGE, and owner said to come back any time.
HH all!

 

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[birdman]

That is an awesome counterstamp! Love it.

 

[cjon455]

that counterstamp is super cool, good job!

 

[Helix]

Interesting large cent. Looks like "Niles" to me. Makes me think of the civil war token advertising a grocery store in Niles Mich. Not the same tho.

 

[Argentium]

Incredible finds ! Most of us dream of a site like that .

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[RelicDude]

Those are awesome finds we're you able to get the years off any of those lcs.

 

[romeo-1]

Nice counterstamped copper!

 

[Don in SJ]

Very nice counterstamp, there is a Niles coin shop, perhaps if you ever wanted to sell, that business might express an interest. I know there are books on counterstamps, wish I had one, but I did a quick google of NILES and found this, no D NILES but it still could be a possible match.
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Z.R. NILES

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(counterstamped 1830 large cent)

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[TD]TC-164243 *** Not listed in Gregory Brunk's 2003 catalog "Merchant & Privately Countermarked Coins." ***Z.R. Niles, watch maker, Oneida, N.Y. (1882 State Business Directory) (Hank T.).
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I like the button, I don't think I ever came across a "washer" that was really a button but will look more closely in the future.

Don

 

[Jyverb64]

Very nice finds and that counterstamp is sweet

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

looks like D NILES imho , very Kool


three copper day works ,, nice


DAWG

 

[testing123]

Thanks guys, and thanks Don for the info! Will keep poking around to see if the stamp can be 100% identified, but looks like it's off to a good start.