KGIII Irish Halfpenny

[Don in SJ]

Took a nice hike this morning to a isolated site that I found last year and was meaning to get back to, but wish I had gotten there before the foliage started to fill out. Anyway, the site is not a fun one, some nice open areas, but most of it is rather brushy with some greenbriar, but the kicker is, there are bullets of all calibers in the ground from an old nearby rifle range that evidently did not have a very high backstop area years ago.

So, coin readings were bullet reading, button reading were other types of bullet readings and it was dig all an hope it wasn't another cotton pickin bullet!

I finally found a place where the bullets were less and the iron hits increased and got rewarded with a early flat gold gilt button. Now I had hopes of finding some old stuff! A few minutes later I got my first and unfortunately my only coin for the morning, but I knew it was a colonial by the look of it and rather not so round of condition! Shortly after that I got a match to the first gilt button I found and then a nice tombac style button.

I plan on hitting this site again when I have more time, don't think I hunted more that 45 minutes today, spent way too much time exploring and walking, over a half hour brisk walk just to reach this homestead.

Getting a coin for May is good enough now and time to relax some, that was my 12th 1700 era copper coin for the year, so not complaining one bit. Oh the coin is a 1776 (fairly certain it is a 6 and not a 5) King George III Irish Halfpenny. It is in good shape but being a counterfeit it was not struck well and the features are weak despite a pleasantly smooth planchet............. (It is a lightweight so it is a counterfeit, weighs only 110.5 grains)

Don

 

[sscindercoop]

I found a King George today also.

 

[Iron Patch]

Always a good one in my books! Was going to say I'm still waiting for my first for the year, but think I have one.

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

George is poppin' up all over the place ! You can bet that when I do finally find mine I will be doing the happy dance !

Thank You for another great post

VPR

 

[dwayne sueno]

your'e having an amazing year, Don.
congrats on the copper. glad you made it out of the bullet field. sometimes one's will weakens when they realize they are surrounded...

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Nice finds, Don! Sounds like a great place to continue hunting.

KL

 

[bootybay]

Way to go Don, congrats again to ya..

 

[Sniffy]

Don has a magnetic field surrounding him....Coins just come flyin after him.....I "only" have 11 coppers thus far.....and you say you have 12 1700's era coppers? How many Large cents have you dug?

 

[mainer]

Nice hunt Don!

 

[MaineRelic]

Nice Don ! I have yet to break into the 1700's with a coin ! 1803 draped my oldest so far ! I will do the happy dance for a week when I do !! MaineRelic

 

[Bubba65]

Nice coin and buttons Don!!! How is the back holding up, hope it is better

Bubba65

 

[Don in SJ]

Don has a magnetic field surrounding him....Coins just come flyin after him.....I "only" have 11 coppers thus far.....and you say you have 12 1700's era coppers? How many Large cents have you dug?

Oops Sniffy, not 12 coppers this year, 12 coins this year from the 1700s. Counted the One Real and Half Real as coppers, LOL. What's a Large Cent?

I try and keep the count up to date on my profile.

Don

 

[Don in SJ]

Nice coin and buttons Don!!! How is the back holding up, hope it is better

Bubba65

Thanks, actually not so good, probably should not be going out and walking like that, I usually pay a price for doing so for a few days and this is not exception, ah, comes with age I guess and long range effects of falling off ladders.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

nice hunt don! hopefully more will come outta that site!

 

[Brian W]

You gotta love it when a George shows up

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

good finds as always Don

 

[zaxfire69]

Nice finds Dom. I would kill for our woods down here in Mississippi to be that clear and weed free. Can't even walk in them right now. Nice finds. I have 3 coppers for this year so far. Hopefully More will follow for us both.

 

[Don in SJ]

Nice finds Dom. I would kill for our woods down here in Mississippi to be that clear and weed free. Can't even walk in them right now. Nice finds. I have 3 coppers for this year so far. Hopefully More will follow for us both.

Ah, don't be decieved by the photo, that is only clear becuase of it used to be field area and homestead area, the vast majority of woods here are thick with underbrush and plenty of areas you cannot even walk through, also we have our share of swamps in southern NJ........

Don