- Mar 30, 2020
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Today I found an 1824 Nova Scotia One Penny Token. This thing is huge: 34.22 mm, 17.04 g, made of copper with a nice reeded edge. I had no idea what this was when I popped it out of the ground. I could see 1824 and a thistle motif on the reverse making me wonder if it was Scottish. Having found King George I, II, and III coins I knew from the direction of the portrait it had to be a King George IV. The day before yesterday I found an 1838 half dime in this area. It was like going from one size extreme to the other!
What is great about finding this coin is that I knew from previous finds that the area was at one time a farm owned by a US Naval Officer around the time of the Jacksonian era. I have found four of his Naval buttons to date. It has older colonial roots going back to the mid to late 1600's through to the early 1900's layered in. The area is very close to what was one of the most important colonial whaling ports on Eastern Long Island, NY. So very likely this sailor\farmer was either whaling or cod fishing off of Nova Scotia.
What is great about finding this coin is that I knew from previous finds that the area was at one time a farm owned by a US Naval Officer around the time of the Jacksonian era. I have found four of his Naval buttons to date. It has older colonial roots going back to the mid to late 1600's through to the early 1900's layered in. The area is very close to what was one of the most important colonial whaling ports on Eastern Long Island, NY. So very likely this sailor\farmer was either whaling or cod fishing off of Nova Scotia.
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