✅ SOLVED Colonial Copper?

[danjsargent]

So I have never found a 1700s coin. I really feel like I can safely say it is a colonial coin due to its size and being copper but I cant discern any details. Can anyone make anything out that looks familiar? There are "dots" around the edge-whatever the technical term is-so I feel that its a KG2. It is really thin and slightly smaller than a large cent. Thanks for the help!

 

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[G.A.P.metal]

Sorry Dan
I can`t see any detail on your copper,but i`m rooten for you to be correct !
Gary

 

[HAPPYCAMPER]

She is toasty,our soil here in Massachusetts isnt nice to the old coppers,though I do find a nice old one once in awhile and I contribute that to it being in area they had dumped wood ashes making soil less acidic to the old coppers.Hope ya have better luck on next on.

 

[Fourman110]

The pictures look like a light source is pointed straight at the table with the coin. Try a small flashlight on the side. It often makes detail stand out better than hitting it with a straight on light source.

 

[baspinall]

I'd say it's a copper for sure. Now what kind is a different story. You first blown (If you rotate it 180%) up image looks to have a left facing bust to me.

 

[flyadive]

Too much cleaning! Try a couple of drops of half and half and see what you can see.

 

[rick67]

Could be a toasted KG or State coin would be my guess.

 

[baspinall]

Too much cleaning! Try a couple of drops of half and half and see what you can see.

Never heard of that? Half and half.

 

[flyadive]

Never heard of that? Half and half.

If the coin is not oily, all you have to do is place a few drops of heavy cream and let it sit, just a thin layer without letting it over flow off the coin. The cream will separate from the high points!

 

[rich f]

out of the 15 coppers i have found here in mass i can make out 2 of them ,mass soil isnt nice to old coppers it sucks but they are still nice to find

 

[danjsargent]

out of the 15 coppers i have found here in mass i can make out 2 of them ,mass soil isnt nice to old coppers it sucks but they are still nice to find

Good to know! Thanks. I wont get my hopes up and that will make any i get all the more special

 

[danjsargent]

If the coin is not oily, all you have to do is place a few drops of heavy cream and let it sit, just a thin layer without letting it over flow off the coin. The cream will separate from the high points!

Thanks for this advice! I was skeptical but after trying and maneuvering the light and everything I am pretty confident in an ID. pretty sure its a 1750 KG2. Was able to make out the bust and roman numerals on the obverse. The reverse i could obviously orient and make out a 50 with pretty good confidence moving the light and cream.

Now I have the best smelling copper in Massachusetts! Haha. Thanks for the advice!

 

[ironhorse]

this probably more imagination than anything, stay with me

on the second to last photo, at the 7 o'clock position (if it were a clock face) I can almost see GIVS, that makes me think it's a George lll half penny

 

[bowser]

[QtUOTE=baspinall;5274125]Never heard of that? Half and half.[/QUOTE in the days of outhouses in the winter urine was in buckets and thrown out the windows half mine, half my brothers ergo half and half