Old pocket spill

[Mainedigger]

WEnt into the woods today looking for an old foundation that I ahven;t been able to find and today was no different...couldn;t find it. Ended up detecting around some old stone walls and found the normal shotgun shells etc..but did get a good solid penny/dime signal on my M6 and found this pocket spill along with a musket ball down about 8 inches. 1802 LC, 1793 George III, an undated George II and an undated either George I or II. First pic is slightly cleaned second two are after soaking and cleaning a bit more.

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Now that's a worthy pocketspill. Each one of those coins individually would be a great day in my book.
Chris

 

[hogge]

WTG......Don't see that at all. Congrats.........Hogge

 

[jgas]

Wow!!!!!! Nice digs... I bet you were freaking out, I would have been. Congrats big time.. jgas

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

You gotta love the New England finds!!

Congrats!!!!

 

[Locke]

Thats an awesome pocket spill, someone must have lost their milk money back in the day. Great finds

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Awesome finds! HH, Mike

 

[julesjunk]

Doesn't get much earlier than that for a pocket spill. At least not in this country.
Great find MD!
Regards,
Jules

 

[Mainedigger]

Nice! Those came out of the ground in pretty nice shape!

I wish that is how they came out of the ground... I keep a toothbrush, a scrunge pad and a bucket of water in my truck and these coins were all green with corrosion and dirty when I dug them and the first pic is after I took the toothbruch and scrunge pad to them for a bit to see what they were, the last pics are after soaking in peroxide and Noxon for a little bit to clean them up some more.

 

[Mainedigger]

Have you ever wondered how that musket ball happened to be in there with them coins? Could have been a good old time 'Mugging'? With the demise of the unwilling victim! or could have been his last musket ball for his kind of hunting. Highly unlikely though, they were either drunk or rotting away, to have lost a years pay. Nice finds........NGE

Yeah, that musket ball in amoungst them definitely baffled me... Not sure how or why it was there but was a nice added bonus.

 

[Roger Mn.]

Nice pocket spill.

 

[Evolution]

Now thats what I call a pocket spill. I've never found more than one large copper in a hole. My buddy Steve was fortunate enough to get two in the same hole earlier this year. He found a 1787 Connecticut and a counterfeit Irish Halfpenny in the same hole. But you found 4 Way to go.

 

[Ed-NH]

Wow! That is one beautiful coin spill. Man oh man I would have been jumping for joy out there. You gotta go back out there and search the area some more. That spill is a lot of coin to be walking around with. They must have been well off and MUST have lost more 8)

 

[texan connection]

Wow Never seen a Pocket spill that old , Undesturbed ground for at least 200 yrs

 

[muttandjeeps]

MaineDigger, that is one heck of a day. That spill would have me grinning for a week!

 

[JimBeHuntin']

Congratulations on a heck of a pocket spill ... that's more old copper than most mders find in a life time ~ Jimmy

 

[Don in SJ]

Congratulations on finding the pocket spill. Does not happen too often but when it does it is a high that lasts for a long time.

I had to put on my thinking cap on what you say is the 1793 KGIII copper. I know of none minted that year. I looked at your photo blown up and I am fairly certain you have a 1806 KGIII Halfpenny.

Don

 

[halfdime]

Fantastic!

 

[Mobes]

WTG awsome find. Not a find you find everyday.

 

[Mainedigger]

Congratulations on finding the pocket spill. Does not happen too often but when it does it is a high that lasts for a long time.

I had to put on my thinking cap on what you say is the 1793 KGIII copper. I know of none minted that year. I looked at your photo blown up and I am fairly certain you have a 1806 KGIII Halfpenny.

Don

Don..the one I am talking about is on the bottom right in the pictures...I can clearly see a date of 1793 and there is definitely Roman numeral III on the obverse...I am not certain exactly what it is. I did find an 1806 George III halfpenny or penny a little while back and this coin here is smaller than the 1806 one which is in between a half and silver dollar in size. This one is larger than an LC but not quite as large as the 1806 one I found. Maybe this 1793 one is a counterfeit one?? I know next to nothing about the early British colonials, so any advice and suggestions etc are greatly appreciated...thanks!!

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very cool finds!!!! Congratulations on all of the old coins!!!!