Older spot same plantation

[Schuder3]

These are from a different area of the 5000 ac. plantation I have been hunting. Scouting around quickly I know I am leaving relics. No worries, I'll be going back. I have ID the coin on the left, but can not find the one on the right anywhere. It is very thin and 21mm on the wide side. Does anyone have any idea where to look for ID?

 

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[CRUSADER]

Too bad the thread title doesn't do justice to these finds. It isn't very often that hammered coins are dug from US soil. In this colonial diggers mind, these are banner finds but they just don't win the popularity contest like a gold coin. You're on to a site with early colonial history. Enjoy it while it last. Congrats!

I agree anyone finding hammered in the US, is doing well.

I think the right French looking one might be 16th C!

 

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[dirtlooter]

yes, these should be Banner all day long here in the US. awesome button too! Hammer Time!

 

[cudamark]

Yup, hammered coins in the U.S. gets my banner vote!

 

[A2coins]

Amazing I would love to hunt that spot Thanks for sharing your diggins

 

[Schuder3]

Thanks for looking and for all of your comments. I ran a picture of the coin on the left over to the COIN Forum and Megaloden ID'ed it for me. Smokeythecat and Crusader were in the ball park. Francis I of France Dizain Franciscus around 1540. I am very impressed with the knowledge on this forum, thanks!

 

[RustyGold]

Congratulations on the stellar hammered. I say banner!

 

[Schuder3]

I'm sorry, I meant the coin on the right. It is 0300 and my eyes are crossed !!!

 

[Megalodon]

Thanks for looking and for all of your comments. I ran a picture of the coin on the left over to the COIN Forum and Megaloden ID'ed it for me. Smokeythecat and Crusader were in the ball park. Francis I of France Dizain Franciscus around 1540. I am very impressed with the knowledge on this forum, thanks!

Pretty easy id with that big F with a fleur-de-lis on either side for Francis I of France (1515-1547). This is "royal" coinage and not from the many provinces - many of which had their own coinage. This one is from about 1540 to about 1547. These coins actually have mint marks on them too. There is a long list of them. I believe I can see an "A" which would indicate Paris, but the coin is so worn that it is hard to say definitively. His testons (portrait coins) were among the first French coins with realistic portraits on them, an Italian influence. I used to collect testons because they were an affordable way to own a Renaissance portrait. A Francis I teston with a nice portrait is my earliest one and cost me $200 over 30 years ago.

 

[Megalodon]

There's much less wear on that beautiful half groat of James I. In fact, it is the finest one I have seen dug here in Tidewater. My guess is that was lost soon after it was minted and carried over to Tidewater. I bet your site was first settled in the 1630's-1640's. and is very close to one of the rivers or creeks flowing into the Bay. The research would be fun. I found that my earliest farm field was originally settled by a friend of Charles I right about the time when his friend was executed during the English Civil War. I have lost some of those farm fields settled back then in Tidewater MD to development over the years. It is my favorite kind of detecting and I hope to get back to it.

 

[Bharpring]

The British Naval Officers Rev War button or the Hammered Coins- not sure which of these gets my vote for Banner Ha ha Amazing site that you are on.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer old coins!