King George???

[Kev78mex]

Found this along an old route back in the woods by my house. It's an old area where I live in NJ. Is this a King George coin? Lemme know i want good news!! You can see the head on one side but the other side is pretty well smooth. I found this last summer.

 

[Noah_D]

It looks like a KG III to me (just a guess bc of the way it is facing), nice find!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Can't help you with the ID, but it's a lovely , old coin. Well done.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Yup, he's definitely looking to the right.
Being a KG III Halfpenny makes the most sense.

"George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820."

Nice find,
Dave

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice one !

 

[CRUSADER]

Might be a Will III??

 

[Georgivs]

You called? JK I couldn't resist. Nice coin!

 

[Aureus]

Looks like William III to me as well.

 

[Noah_D]

Looks like William III to me as well.

If it is that's a great find! You don't find those very often!

 

[rsilva02667]

My first thought was William III 1694-1702 I believe

 

[Evolution]

Another vote for William III. Nice find.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice old copper!

 

[washingtonian]

Nice!! Sweet find.

 

[Kev78mex]

THANKS TO ALL who took the time to look at my old King William or George!! I FREAKIN LOVE METAL DETECTING!!

 

[Noah_D]

THANKS TO ALL who took the time to look at my old King William or George!! I FREAKIN LOVE METAL DETECTING!!

Anytime! Thanks for sharing it with us and keep us posted, it seems like you've got a good site!

 

[brianc053]

Hey Kev78mex, I'm not far from you - up in Morris County. Maybe when things settle down we could plan a dig; I've got some great sites where I have permission here in my area.
At one of those locations last year I found a very corroded copper coin, and I talked about it on this thread: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coins/617935-cleaning-wheat-pennies.html
It turned out to be a Large Cent from around the 1830's, but the reason I bring it up is: it seems that our New Jersey soil damages these copper coins more than other soils. I see some coins pulled out by people from other areas that are very easy to distinguish, but I look at your coin and my Large Cent and - you can barely tell that they're coins.
What is it in the NJ soil that does this?

- Brian

 

[A2coins]

Very nice coin good start to a nice coin collection.

 

[A2coins]

Welcome to tnet also Tommy

 

[Mr. Digger]

Congrats. It's a William III for sure.