Help with copper find

[Rmeav8r]

Hello again, this is one more of my North Carolina finds. This one is a copper (I think) coin similar find. It is a little larger than a quarter and a little thicker. The edges are dressed and smooth, not at all like a punched slug. It is non-magnetic and I t weighs 14 grams or 1/2 oz. I washed off the clay and the copper colored specks was all I could make out. It came from the Winston-Salem area which has origins all the way back before colonial times. I found the quarter in the same backyard!

Thanks in in advance for any help!

Scout

 

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[villagenut]

Not so sure it is a coin...The rims are still high and yet no detail whatsoever on the surfaces, which also have raised bubbles from the manufacture of it. Maybe an old slug would be my best guess.

 

[Rmeav8r]

Not so sure it is a coin...The rims are still high and yet no detail whatsoever on the surfaces, which also have raised bubbles from the manufacture of it. Maybe an old slug would be my best guess.

That might be the case, I've never found a copper slug. My hopes were higher....

 

[ARC]

I am agreed with villagenut...
IF ..................
it is not........................
what it also could be...
a "blank"....
which technically IS a coin... just un struck... Depends on which numismatists you ask.
Now... not saying that's what it is ... nor that it has any value... for that I would not know...
Heck could be a pine tree coin slug ...
Hmmmm just imagine the rarity of that... an unstruck copper coin.

P.S> don't know how in the hell you would figure it out either... BUT... good for the imagination huh? ... gets the old wheels ah turning.
Chugalug ah lugluglug...

 

[Rmeav8r]

Thanks for the input. I also think is not a coin, but it also got my attention when I dug it! I'll hang on to it just the same.

Merry Christmas!

 

[villagenut]

Don't get your hopes up on the pine tree coin idea (maybe it was just a joke?), This blank that you have is a cast piece and not hammered. Not even a maybe...

 

[Rmeav8r]

Don't get your hopes up on the pine tree coin idea (maybe it was just a joke?), This blank that you have is a cast piece and not hammered. Not even a maybe...

I agree it is not hammered or even punched, but what would a copper cast like this be made for?

 

[ARC]

Tis either a blank or slug... will prolly never know... To test if copper... drop acid... if bubbles strong green yes... do it on small edge... no on top.
There is no way to absolutely identify this object without doing a composition test to identify the elemental design and type... that would only narrow down somewhat to the age/era of that piece.
Hardly worth the effort.
And yes I was poking fun at the ideas/imaginations.

 

[ARC]

And before you ask...
Reverse Engineering Laboratory Deformulation analysis of products, also known as “chemical reverse engineering” is the process of analytically breaking down a material or product’s formulation/composition to separate and determine the identity and quantity of its components.

Lotsa big words mean lotsa big money ! heh

 

[perennial]

Could it be a primitive weight? or to balance something? shim?