Any Ideas on This?

[timekiller]

I posted this a few days ago in todays finds.Found it at a very old site on the river.But have no clue to what it is.It is very thin like and flat with the incrusted iron on the bottom.Thanks Ahead! Timekiller!

 

[Mackaydon]

Reminds me of a "Widow's Mite" with another piece fused to it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow's_mite

 

[72cheyenne]

Reminds me of a "Widow's Mite" with another piece fused to it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow's_mite

Very, very close. Shame its got an iron chunk stuck to it.

 

[DCMatt]

Is the whole thing iron or just iron stuck to the back (of some other type of metal)?

DCMatt

 

[timekiller]

Reminds me of a "Widow's Mite" with another piece fused to it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow's_mite

Thanks once again Mackaydon,never heard of one being found over here.You are great in your reseach.Don't know if it is but was glad to had read about them.Will admitt it's the closes thing I have found to it.I had gave up on coins couldn't find nothing like it.Was thinking button like I have never seen,or maybe even some type of bottle closer (seal).But had found nothing like them either.
Thanks for your help!
I'm just bad about wanting to know what something is. Helps when someone stops by to be able to give Ideas of what something is you look for.Nothing like having someone say "what is that" and all you can say is I don't know!

 

[timekiller]

Is the whole thing iron or just iron stuck to the back (of some other type of metal)?

DCMatt

Two metals,iron on back,the other is so flat and brittle hard to say for sure.But has the patina like copper maybe mixed with a alloyed of somekind.
Timekiller!

 

[Mackaydon]

Timekiller:
Thanks, I enjoy the research, and if wrong, it may then trigger a better answer from others; lets hope.

Don.....

 

[timekiller]

Timekiller:
Thanks, I enjoy the research, and if wrong, it may then trigger a better answer from others; lets hope.

Don.....

Would that had been something the colonist would had?It is a old site.Just from knowing with what other things I have found here.I would say this site is as old as the one the 1669 tabacco token came from.(my guess)Also had these two lead pieces at it.They were just so coin like I kept them. They were mixed among indian relics as most of the older sites here are.

 

[turtlefoot13]

Based on the Buffalo Nickel used for size comparison, wouldn't it be too big for a Widow's Mite. I've owned a couple in the past and they were quite a bit smaller than a nickel. If it were a prutah, it would be less the 1/2 inch and if it were a lepton, it would be much smaller.

The design is a dead ringer for the styles with the star on them though.

Doug

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Good grief that's old.

 

[Mackaydon]

Timekiller:
"Widow's Mite's" came in a variety of sizes and shapes. Consider the square shaped Judaea - Alexander Jannaeus - 103 - 76 BC - bronze prutah, 17x14 mm found here: (scroll down to the enlarged 'square' coin). This coin is larger than a half inch and was the coin I first imagined when I saw the object you found. Granted, 'our' coins are not exact, and yours may not even be a coin, but as I first mentioned, it has become an incentive for further comments.
Don...

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...2&gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&sa=N&start=120&ie=UTF-8

 

[timekiller]

Timekiller:
"Widow's Mite's" came in a variety of sizes and shapes. Consider the square shaped Judaea - Alexander Jannaeus - 103 - 76 BC - bronze prutah, 17x14 mm found here: (scroll down to the enlarged 'square' coin). This coin is larger than a half inch and was the coin I first imagined when I saw the object you found. Granted, 'our' coins are not exact, and yours may not even be a coin, but as I first mentioned, it has become an incentive for further comments.
Don...

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...2&gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&sa=N&start=120&ie=UTF-8

Thanks Don,yea gotta say that star deal goes along with it.I think it might have some part in it.Like said to bad about the iron on the back of it.Cause it is so thin and in such a state that I don't think me messing with it tying to clean would do it any good.So the way it is,is all I have to go by.
Thanks again for your help friend,
Timekiller!