On the board for 2016 - Hibernia KG III and Spanish Coin Button

[Steve in PA]

Got out yesterday with Jim Bertolasio, first time we have hunted together. Plan A was to check out some woods near Mad Anthony Wayne’s 1792-1793 encampment at Legionville. After a couple hours of climbing steep hills that were slippery from frozen ground and digging nothing but shotgun shells, I suggested we drive about 40 miles to one of my well pounded standby sites. Here we both managed to come up with a nice keeper, mine being a Irish Hibernia King George III, and Jim’s being the find of the day – a beautiful Spanish Coin facsimile button with a crisp 1767 date.

For more information on these Spanish coin buttons and cufflinks, see this site:
Patriotic & Commemorative Buttons

 

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[relic lover]

Nice digs. 1793? Was that the Indian Wars or the Whiskey rebellion?

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice digs. 1793? Was that the Indian Wars or the Whiskey rebellion?

Ohio Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionville

 

[relic lover]

Glad to see someone is getting out I was wondering if the ground would be thawed. I wonder why you guys didn't find anything at the first place do you think maybe you were not on the spot?

 

[metalev4]

Really nice finds Steve. Thanks for the lesson, I didn't know much about those previously.

 

[Steve in PA]

Glad to see someone is getting out I was wondering if the ground would be thawed. I wonder why you guys didn't find anything at the first place do you think maybe you were not on the spot?

We were a good half mile from the main site. We were hoping find a picket post. The ground was thawed under the leaves in the woods at the first site, and the second site was down in Washington county and the ground was soft as butter there.

 

[park pirate]

Nice..

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Hey Steve , Nice winter hunt ! Welcome to the "Wish This Button WasAcoin Club " ...
I dug a 1764 dated Eight R back in 09 . Still these replica Spanish are an interesting and very elusive relic!
quick question ... is your button a pillar dollar or a smaller denomination ? Hard to tell the diameter from my house .

daWg

 

[Steve in PA]

Hey Steve , Nice winter hunt ! Welcome to the "Wish This Button WasAcoin Club " ...
I dug a 1764 dated Eight R back in 09 . Still these replica Spanish are an interesting and very elusive relic!
quick question ... is your button a pillar dollar or a smaller denomination ? Hard to tell the diameter from my house .

daWg

Hey Dawg, first off, Jim dug the Spanish coin button. Would have loved to have found it myself. I have several of the cufflink size Pillar buttons, including a linked pair. But this one is slightly larger, about the diameter of a one real. So I think this one was a button and not a cufflink.

 

[DownNDirty]

Congratulations on the Hibernia-can you make out the date?

 

[digging440yrs]

Nice job guys

 

[Steve in PA]

Congratulations on the Hibernia-can you make out the date?

I can clearly see the 17 on the left of the harp, but I can't make out the numbers on the right of the harp. Maybe if I stare at it a little harder

 

[bonepicker]

Very Nice!

 

[The Rebel]

That's awesome! I found a similar one but French years ago.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/261269-colonial-cuff-link-help-needed.html

 

[trapperart]

Very nice finds congrats

 

[Iron Patch]

That's how we do it.. go for the new site but at some point hit a sure thing where we know we can at least dig a few holes and have a chance. I'd say at about the 2 hour mark left in the day we'll be reaching for the panic button. Seems like you made a good call.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Nice finds Steve. The only coin button I've ever dug (without the shank) was my very first colonial silver coin. My gosh, that must have been 20 years ago.

 

[lewis]

Great finds, well done

 

[Steve in PA]

That's how we do it.. go for the new site but at some point hit a sure thing where we know we can at least dig a few holes and have a chance. I'd say at about the 2 hour mark left in the day we'll be reaching for the panic button. Seems like you made a good call.

That's what I told Jim when I suggested going to this place. I said you won't find much, but you have a chance to find something good. This site has given up maybe 25 buttons, but among them are two Rattlesnake and Stars buttons, two Harrison Log Cabin campaign buttons, four one piece convex 1820s eagle artillery buttons, and now this Spanish coin button.

 

[gwdigger]

I really love those pillar buttons. Better than the real thing. Unless a 4 or 8r. lol