Remains of Civil War coin purse found.....In Junk Bucket!!

[Nooberz]

I was separating my junk bucket into brass and copper and came across this. This must have been the remains of a coin purse just after the Civil War. Absolutely amazing. 1864 2-cent and a unknown date 3-cent. They are soaking now. A lot of this junk is from a couple of years ago when I was hitting fields in Southern Ohio. Check your junk!!!!

The other piece looks like some sort of seal or die for something

UPDATE...The H. Disston & Sons, is a medallion that went into the handle of a saw from the mid-1870s

 

[junkhunter]

did that with a seated dime once from beach.New it was a coin but thought it was clad crap due to severe crusion.A few years later i am cleaning out can.It was not corrosion,it was incrusted!I about flipped and knocked off rest of crust.

 

[dig kzoo]

 

[vpnavy]

 

[jewelerguy]

man that's cool

 

[RelicDude]

I love the two cent piece. Your seal isn't a seal it's a saw nut from a Disston hand saw.

 

[RelicDude]

Here's an example