Colonial Dig - Conn Copper, Irish Halfpenny and weight?? 179X Lg cent from 2010

MonkeyBoy · Mar 20, 2011

Here are my finds from a colonial site I started last fall and just finished up. Dug a pretty good Conn copper and my first Irish Halfpenny!! Pretty happy with that one! Also found 1/2 of a cufflink, mourning button and this odd lead piece, looks to be some sort of weight but I'm not sure??

HH
MB

** The cufflink is in the main pic, the closeup in the holder is the mourning button**

ModernMiner · Mar 20, 2011

Re: Colonial Dig - Conn Copper, Irish Halfpenny and weight??

Way to go on the old coins MB. That cuff link is fantastic. :hello2:

Congrats,
MM

Sniffy · Mar 20, 2011

Re: Colonial Dig - Conn Copper, Irish Halfpenny and weight??

Thats the good stuff! :headbang:

testing123 · Mar 20, 2011

Re: Colonial Dig - Conn Copper, Irish Halfpenny and weight??

Superb finds! But you found a Liberty Cap and didn't even mention it??

MonkeyBoy · Mar 20, 2011

Re: Colonial Dig - Conn Copper, Irish Halfpenny and weight??

testing123 said:
Superb finds! But you found a Liberty Cap and didn't even mention it??

Yeah, that was "in the bag" from last fall.. I had dug a nice 1773 Virginia halfpenny and a George III along with the large cent.. I had it out to get it in a flip w/ the others and included in the photos because I had not had enough coffee yet! ;-) I also dug 2 other copper blanks that I can't get any detail off of.. bummer.

MB

West Jersey Detecting · Mar 20, 2011

Re: Colonial Dig - Conn Copper, Irish Halfpenny and weight??

Nice finds for sure.

The cufflink is a real beauty!

HEAVYMETALNUT · Mar 20, 2011

wow! beautiful cuff link! sweet oldies there! that oval thing with 2 holes( not sure exactly what they are? dig alot of em myself) looks like possible a masonic etching in it? :icon_scratch:

{Sentinel} · Mar 20, 2011

You knocked it out of the park with this post MB. So this is the culmination of the best of your finds from the site, if I read the post right? :occasion14:

MonkeyBoy · Mar 20, 2011

{Sentinel} said:
You knocked it out of the park with this post MB. So this is the culmination of the best of your finds from the site, if I read the post right?

Thanks! Well, this was the last hunt there minus the large cent.. I grabbed that to put in a flip when I was organizing the other coins I had found. The large cent was one from this site I dug last year before it got too cold, the rest of the relics are fresh from the ground all dug in about 2 hours ;-) Hopefully there will be more but there isn't much land left to hunt!!

MB

CRUSADER · Mar 20, 2011

No, the close up is another cufflink.

MonkeyBoy · Mar 20, 2011

CRUSADER said:
No, the close up is another cufflink.

Really? You absolutely have more knowledge on these then me, but I posted one a couple years back and it was ID'ed as a mourning button? The specific design. However, cufflink works for me.. I like the idea of a cufflink over a "death button" ;-) Thanks for the correction..

MB

CRUSADER · Mar 20, 2011

MonkeyBoy said:
CRUSADER said:

No, the close up is another cufflink.

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Really? You absolutely have more knowledge on these then me, but I posted one a couple years back and it was ID'ed as a mourning button? The specific design. However, cufflink works for me.. I like the idea of a cufflink over a "death button" ;-) Thanks for the correction..

MB

Although some were used to represent the mourning process, it was a common design used in the 18th C. Taken from the Roman & Greek Urns seen on the 'Gentleman's' Grand Tours. No reason why it couldn't be a mourning cufflink but it wasn't its only use of this design 'classic'.

Getty · Mar 20, 2011

Nice array of finds.

MonkeyBoy · Mar 20, 2011

CRUSADER said:
MonkeyBoy said:

CRUSADER said:

No, the close up is another cufflink.

Click to expand...

Really? You absolutely have more knowledge on these then me, but I posted one a couple years back and it was ID'ed as a mourning button? The specific design. However, cufflink works for me.. I like the idea of a cufflink over a "death button" ;-) Thanks for the correction..

MB

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Although some were used to represent the mourning process, it was a common design used in the 18th C. Taken from the Roman & Greek Urns seen on the 'Gentleman's' Grand Tours. No reason why it couldn't be a mourning cufflink but it wasn't its only use of this design 'classic'.

Ahh, makes sense. The urn was what pointed this specifically to a mourning item but it seems like a common mistake of applying modern connotations to a different period and making assumptions. It does seem like a rather odd design theme today but hey.... skinny ties in the 80s are rather odd too! ;-) Thanks for the history.. always helpful..

MB