Worn out coin What was it?

[Garscale]

East Texas native site. Any idea what it once was?

 

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[Garscale]

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[JVA5th]

this maybe? Of Russian origin. What I came up with any using Google

 

[Red-Coat]

Imperial Russian, yes. Looks like a denga (half-kopek) from 1730-1754, if it's about an inch in diameter.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11217.html

 

[Garscale]

Imperial Russian, yes. Looks like a denga (half-kopek) from 1730-1754, if it's about an inch in diameter.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11217.html

It's about the size of a nickle. Cool!

 

[Garscale]

It's not exactly round and appears it was struck imperfectly. Weird coin.

 

[Garscale]

I wish that sucker could talk. Must have been quite a journey from Russia to East Tx

 

[Garscale]

Now that I know where to look for the date I can see most of it. Looks like 1740.

 

[Clo]

You find that on your sifter? You still working the same site the old man in the Datsun showed up to?

Rookie

 

[Garscale]

You find that on your sifter? You still working the same site the old man in the Datsun showed up to?

Rookie

Different site. I do still have that Clovis though.

 

[unclemac]

Russian coins of that date do show up from time to time from Northern California to Alaska due to the fur trade.

 

[erfranks]

Great Save. you never know what you going to dig, and where it came from.

 

[Noah_D]

Dang Red-coat you always get the fun ones! I think the date is 175* which would mean it was minted during the rule of Elizaveta Petrovna... not that that's useful but I want to feel like I helped haha.

 

[Garscale]

Dang Red-coat you always get the fun ones! I think the date is 175* which would mean it was minted during the rule of Elizaveta Petrovna... not that that's useful but I want to feel like I helped haha.

Yep. The last digit is a zero. Pretty sure1740 or 1750 is the date