Old Copper Coin Found Today

[bazinga]

I found this copper coin in a farm field that Carl and I found this afternoon.

It is 23mm in diameter. It appears to look like King George V on it, but it is too small to be a half penny and no other coin sizes from Great Britain match it up except for OLD 1700s type coins. The back looks like it has been through a fire.

We found some other coins there, oldest being a 1911 Wheatie, newest being a 1964 nickel. The house was on the 1887 map, so we were expecting something older...

 

[FinderFrank]

Nice finds!!!!!!!!!


Frank

 

[tsgman]

Neat coin! Tsgman

 

[Getty]

Very nice brian!HH

 

[hoosierfinds]

Neat find. I sent you an e-mail about Yorktown and US 32 today. Hope it's useful.

 

[doyboy]

Way to go, bud, it looks like you found a Colonial! I can't make any details out though. When I told you to go find some crazy Injuns, I didn't mean 280 year old coppers.

Keep it up, dude!

 

[Green1]

cool,cool,cool.... what's special about the cent in your avatar ?? is there an error i should know about ??

 

[Don in SJ]

I've been looking for about a half hour trying to ID your coin, and I am beginning to think it may not be that old. It is not a colonial of any that were normally circulating back than that I can see. It is Farthing size but also it is the size of dozens of foreign coins and medals, which is where I am leaning more to right now.

If you could somehow make more lettering show clearly that is the key.

Don

 

[bazinga]

I've been looking for about a half hour trying to ID your coin, and I am beginning to think it may not be that old. It is not a colonial of any that were normally circulating back than that I can see. It is Farthing size but also it is the size of dozens of foreign coins and medals, which is where I am leaning more to right now.

If you could somehow make more lettering show clearly that is the key.

Don

Yeah, I was also leaning towards something more modern, but I just can't make it out.

I guess I will have to remain stumped on this one, haha.

cool,cool,cool.... what's special about the cent in your avatar ?? is there an error i should know about ??

Haha, it's a joke, just like doyboy's avatar.

 

[doyboy]

I am giving you credit for a 300 year old coin! It is amazing how so many dudes won't give you that credit.

 

[RonO]

Hey Brian. That is a great coin! Thanks for sharing the photos.

Ron

 

[The Seeker]

It could be some sort of token ......Good luck! WTG

 

[ModernMiner]

Brian,
Another great find. Will there be any way to clean it up to see what it is, or do you not do that?
Congrats.
-MM-

 

[bazinga]

Brian,
Another great find. Will there be any way to clean it up to see what it is, or do you not do that?
Congrats.
-MM-

It was worse before I took the pictures... that's after some cleaning. It was MUCH worse coming out of the ground.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

There are some gaming pieces out there that look like Brit coppers... they are "markers".. what ever the heck that means!! I have seen them listed here and there... try google searching that... just a thought...

MonkeyBoy..

 

[Functional]

I'm thinking that a better light source at an angle of about 45° or less, to the surface of the coin would help. The sharper the angle, the more shadow from the parts of the coin that protrude. (Sometimes, even a pencil rubbing of the coins surfaces can bring out detail that the eye couldn't normally make out.)

Nice coin either way, some of use haven't even broken the 100 year old mark yet.

F.

 

[Skrimpy]

As I have said many times before, if it ain't IDable it aint worth squat. Only when it becomes IDable can it's value be destroyed. Therefore, I say electrolyze it. Even if it's a chain cent, it isn't worth anything if you can't tell what it is so it can only increase in value if you strip a layer off to ID it. Electrolyze it.

 

[bazinga]

As I have said many times before, if it ain't IDable it aint worth squat. Only when it becomes IDable can it's value be destroyed. Therefore, I say electrolyze it. Even if it's a chain cent, it isn't worth anything if you can't tell what it is so it can only increase in value if you strip a layer off to ID it. Electrolyze it.

Yup, I feel the same way. If you can't ID it, it's not worth a poop.

 

[Skrimpy]

I found this copper coin in a farm field that Carl and I found this afternoon.
It is 23mm in diameter. It appears to look like King George V on it, but it is too small to be a half penny and no other coin sizes from Great Britain match it up except for OLD 1700s type coins. The back looks like it has been through a fire.
We found some other coins there, oldest being a 1911 Wheatie, newest being a 1964 nickel. The house was on the 1887 map, so we were expecting something older...

Check this out. When I saw this one I thought it looked very similar to yours but yours is still a little too degraded to tell...have a look and maybe you can tell b/c you got the thing sitting right in front of you.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,76374.0.html

 

[desecrator]

Well, it seems that the back of the coin has a denomination of "10"

If you could do a cross reference search on world coins that are copper, 23mm in diameter and have a "10" unit denoted in modern numerals, it might put you n the right track...