cwdigger
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Been a while since I’ve made a post here mainly bc haven’t found a whole lot worthy of posting. I’ve been hunting what I believed to be a nice colonial site a couple of miles from the house now for about 2 months and out of all the flat buttons and shoe buckle parts that I have found no coins or tokens have come out until now, I can finally put somewhat of a date on this site now. I went out last Sunday before after a good hard rain and walked a cotton row that I’m sure I’ve went down before and dug 2 flat buttons back to back, bent over to pick up some old black glass and then hit a nice 77 VDI on the T2 normally a 77 is a bullet every time and as much as I love digging Civil War relics, digging colonial relics is right up there next to CW.
When I opened the hole the signal got louder so I just figured can slaw as usual, when I got down to around 11" I knew it wasn’t can slaw the next shovel load out fell a large black copper disc, at first thought I was thinking large cent size was right but it had sand imbedded in and on it so I just dropped it in my pocket and kept hunting. When the day was over and I got back to the truck and washed it off with some water and still couldn’t make out anything on, I compared it to a modern quarter to see if there was a size difference and it was slightly larger than a Washington quarter.
I got home and gave it a peroxide bath still sand stuck on it so I dropped it in some olive oil and left it until tonight. I just got it about 20 min ago and the olive did an outstanding job removed all the sand and corrosion and revealed a crown and a harp, I had no idea what it was so I started looking and sent it to a friend that is big into colonial coins/coppers. We both have come to the conclusion that it is a 1795 Georgeivs Washington North Wales Half Penny, it is coinage but more or less a token used locally in Wales. The spot this token came from was off a main colonial travel route so it being there doesn’t surprise me that much, Redbook says the coin in AG is worth $1250 mine is a little worse than AG but I am still considering sending it to PCGS for a Authentication Cert. Below is a pic of mine front and back and then front and back, You can only see it through a loop but under the harp are 4 stars, the front is completely gone with only some letters remaining.
Thanks for looking and keep on swinging
When I opened the hole the signal got louder so I just figured can slaw as usual, when I got down to around 11" I knew it wasn’t can slaw the next shovel load out fell a large black copper disc, at first thought I was thinking large cent size was right but it had sand imbedded in and on it so I just dropped it in my pocket and kept hunting. When the day was over and I got back to the truck and washed it off with some water and still couldn’t make out anything on, I compared it to a modern quarter to see if there was a size difference and it was slightly larger than a Washington quarter.
I got home and gave it a peroxide bath still sand stuck on it so I dropped it in some olive oil and left it until tonight. I just got it about 20 min ago and the olive did an outstanding job removed all the sand and corrosion and revealed a crown and a harp, I had no idea what it was so I started looking and sent it to a friend that is big into colonial coins/coppers. We both have come to the conclusion that it is a 1795 Georgeivs Washington North Wales Half Penny, it is coinage but more or less a token used locally in Wales. The spot this token came from was off a main colonial travel route so it being there doesn’t surprise me that much, Redbook says the coin in AG is worth $1250 mine is a little worse than AG but I am still considering sending it to PCGS for a Authentication Cert. Below is a pic of mine front and back and then front and back, You can only see it through a loop but under the harp are 4 stars, the front is completely gone with only some letters remaining.
Thanks for looking and keep on swinging
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, and I know you know your early coppers very well and much more than I but I have dug George Coins and this aint one. There is no date under the harp, there are 4 little roosette looking stars down there but no date. I may be very wrong as I have been before many times but Im willing to put money on it that its later 1790's, and not a George.
