MaineRelic
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I have been hunting an old coastal colonial site this week. Two hours afterwork on wensday, thursday, friday , and 4 hours this morning . I have hunted this area some before with a few decent finds made . Though scattered in hard digging ground with a lot of hot rocks around there are still a few things to find at this site . Wensday I hunted a big flat upper bench a ways from the foundation above the river and found a spot with a fair amount of wheaties 14 in two hours with only two modern silvers showing a 42 merc ,and a 52, rosie , And a few other trinkets but nothing old ! So thursday I went back to the foundation site hoping to pop a copper . I have yet to pop a Colonial copper from this site . I put the soverign in all metal since I already knew signals there are going to be few and far between . I made five finds there in a little less than 2 hours . Finally pulling an old copper that I knew right away was not normal . It looked Hammered . I figured the most likely canidate was a Spainish Maravedis because these are found some in north America . I also could see an SP on top of what I thought was a blured out shield . Ignoring the bust staring right at me ? After posting it in what is it ? The Brits resoundly say it is Roman . With Cru Dad confirming the I.D. . Crusader's best guess led to an online search hoping to find a match . Cru;s guess appears to be spot on. The Pic of the coin which seems to match up best is Roman Imperial- Vespian 69-79 A.D, Material : Bronze Weight 8.8gm 27mm in diameter . My coin is 26.97 mm. weighing in at 5.6 gms . The bust match looks pretty good ? What do you think Brits ?? The coin in the hand of course being the example > I know I am supposed to be looking for old coppers but this is ridiculous . How am I going to top a coin over 1900 years old . 
. What story led this coin to a Casco Bay Colonial site ?? Friday night back to the foundation area expanding outward. A flat button , An AMOCO 40 tag ? , gun sideplate piece,the ax and the funny looking piece with the S on it ?? Today I spent two hours on land and two hours on the river having a favorable tide . Still up on the bank I found found a shoe buckle frame and a small harness buckle, and the ornate peweter spoon that has seen it;s better days . The vine and leaf design goes down onto the blade as well . Age?? , A few other small finds and I went down to the river and comed the gravel . A .69 round ball , a .58 round ball turned into a sinker , Then I hit an area of the river that produced the copper Ingots which look really pure .The largest weighs in at 18.6 gms. Natural ?? Some more fishing lead and some other junk ! Thanks for looking ! MaineRelic
. What story led this coin to a Casco Bay Colonial site ?? Friday night back to the foundation area expanding outward. A flat button , An AMOCO 40 tag ? , gun sideplate piece,the ax and the funny looking piece with the S on it ?? Today I spent two hours on land and two hours on the river having a favorable tide . Still up on the bank I found found a shoe buckle frame and a small harness buckle, and the ornate peweter spoon that has seen it;s better days . The vine and leaf design goes down onto the blade as well . Age?? , A few other small finds and I went down to the river and comed the gravel . A .69 round ball , a .58 round ball turned into a sinker , Then I hit an area of the river that produced the copper Ingots which look really pure .The largest weighs in at 18.6 gms. Natural ?? Some more fishing lead and some other junk ! Thanks for looking ! MaineRelicAttachments
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Thanks for looking M.R.
willy
I appreaciate the support ! But my next Banner find is still in the field . I hope you don;t think Cru was being too hard on you but if you check out his posts you will see he finds more of these bronze coins than we find wheat pennys 
