MaineRelic
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It has been just over 3 months scince I last did any metal detecting May 27th to be precise ! It was good to get out ! I have moved to a new town / new job / new house / same wife though thank god ! LOL ! I have been doing a fair amount of research in my spare time which is precious right now scince i have been working 6 days a week scince the move. Any how this is what my first hunt in my new town turned up . I was hunting an old foundation I could see in the woods right in town. I figured it had been hunted but was surprised at the amount of signals and junk still there ! I have at least 3 or 4 more trips to this 1 spot to cover it throughly ! But it's close by so I will be there the next couple of mornings. The 1/2 penny token circa 1814 was a big surprise ! I knew it was a 1/2 penny but figured probably bank of Montreal. This token lists all the victories with dates, of the battles the Duke of Wellington ,fought and won between 1808 and 1814 in the Peninsular war against France on the reverse ,With a bust of the Duke on the obverse with the words ( Spain and Portugal Reinstated Wellington ) written in latin. Unfortunately the obverse of this coin is not in as good a shape as the reverse. I found 3 examples of this token on the the net and the reverse is different than mine in the order of listing the battles. Take a look at mine and then the example I found on the net ! I have yet to find 1 Identical to mine ! Any help on variety of this token would be appreciated. Also found a nice lead handled scraper, a decent skeleton key ! And a heart stopping broach that turned out to be costume ! Fun to dig though !! MaineRelic.
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Yes, it is.... so you beat the odds of 1 in 19, but really I bet it's more like one in hundreds if you were to calculate how many common ones of each type there is.
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