My first old coin pocket spill! I need help IDing coin.

[justdigging50]

My first old coin pocket spill! I need help ID'ing coin.

Hit the new spot again and found my first old coin small pocket spill. Wow was that a good feeling! I think this spot I'm working could be a virgin site. This is the second time I have been there and the finds are great.
The pocket spill had a Washington, Merc and two weaties. I found another merc and a coin or token that I need help ID'ing. The coin has a date on it it looks like 1849. I took some pix if you guys know what it is I would love to know.
I don't think I can get enough of this spot. I hope the finds keep popping up. Hope you guys are enjoying this heat wave, I love it. HH

 

[Mr Tuff]

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way cool whatever it is.. i like it MR TUFF

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

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Patience, someone will I'd that coin.
Sadly, I can't.
Great coin spill!
Carl

 

[Mackaydon]

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It's a Danish Rigsbank Skilling (RBS) with crossed sword and crozier (or crosier).
Looks like 1849 date, yes.
Scroll down to next to last coin here:
http://www.preisroboter.de/ergebnis21150956.html
This next pic will be more accurate: Correct king (Frederick VII)
http://allnumis.com/coin/denmark/1-rigsbankskilling-1852-4197
Don.........

 

[washingtonian]

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Sweet old coin spill! Been a little while since I found one, I need to get on that

 

[pennyfarmer]

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Old pocket spills are awesome. I get excited when I see the imprint of coins on coins. It is almost a let down when it stops.

 

[mainer]

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Sweet pocket spill!

 

[Gator-Flea]

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Nice find...........

 

[Hunter]

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Real nice old coin spill!

 

[TheDane]

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Nice old coin from my country !!

A little correction of Mackaydons information.

This coin is from 1842, during the reign of King Christian VIII.
The same type was made during the reign of his son Frederik VII, but this one is clearly Christian the 8th.

http://www2.gladsaxegymnasium.dk/2/chr/c8h11a.htm

If the coin has the mint mark "crown" and the initials VS (right of R.B.S), it is minted in Copenhagen.
If the coin has the mint mark "apple" and the initials FF (right of R.B.S), it is minted in Altona (near Hamburg at that time to Denmark).

 

[TheDane]

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And now this !!!

I have been thinking a lot about your find.
Some American coins in a lot / pocket spill and ONE danish coin, MUCH older, amongst them ??

I have this possible explaination:

In earlier times it was very common / kind of a tradition in my country (Denmark) to have a an old "skilling" in your vallet amongst the "normal" coins.
This skilling was called a "lykkeskilling" (lucky skilling), thought to bring luck and fortune.

I would imagine that an american citizen originally coming from Denmark lost his vallet on that place.
He would have had this "skilling" on him at all time.
Both my grandfather and my father earlier had such an old "lykkeskilling" in their vallets among the valid coins.

Just a thought !

 

[Mackaydon]

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OK; so if the date is '42 versus '49 then my first reference shows an image of the coin '42 coin. I can't read the mint mark.

 

[TheDane]

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OK; so if the date is '42 versus '49 then my first reference shows an image of the coin '42 coin. I can't read the mint mark.

Yes your first reference shows the coin !
It can´t be 49, because the king died in 48.
Hopefully "justdigging50" can see the mint mark and the initials.

 

[Texasgopher]

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Sweet spill man!


TG

 

[fistfulladirt]

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Nice! I love those old spills, my favorite was my 1872 Canadian, 1890's Barber quarter spill. That Denmark coin is awesome! ffd

 

[justdigging50]

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Thanks Mackaydon-Don / The Dane for the feed back and help ID'ing the coin. The coin is in pretty bad shape, I can't make out that mint mark. The coin was found close to the pocket spill but not in it.

 

[TheDane]

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Thanks Mackaydon-Don / The Dane for the feed back and help ID'ing the coin. The coin is in pretty bad shape, I can't make out that mint mark. The coin was found close to the pocket spill but not in it.

Well that mint mark is not so important.
The coin (both types) is very common, and made in large numbers.
The interesting about your find is the fact that you found it in that spot in the US !

 

[Detectingfreak]

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Nice silver! Never found a old coin spill before.