35 Colonial Coppers Today!

[doninbrewster]

We had a club outing today and it was colonial heaven. At least 35 colonial coppers came up and one William III c.1695-1697 silver piece. A lot of our members came up with multiple finds and I ended up with 7 coppers including a large planchet NJ, CT, a nice little 1749 Farthing and another 1724 Farthing. There were also 2 William & Mary coppers found. Interesting thing was is there was not one large cent found. I think my 1787 CT was the newest of the bunch. Our club exists for 2 reasons, one of them being the club hunts. It was on a club hunt last weekend where I found a 29 gram 14K bracelet. I've included a number of pictures from the hunt shown in the hands of those that found them. I didn't get a chance to photograph all of the finds, but here's a nice bunch. The first photo is of the 7 pieces I found. I should also mention that a number of nice flat buttons were found and a major find was eyeballed in the field, a stone axe!

 

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[JimDon]

Wow

 

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[Ahab8]

Whoa! That is an incredible number of very early coins! Im not sure what to say, that's a whole bunch of really sweet high tones. That's my kind of hunting. Those signals in an old area like that is like Christmas in every hole

 

[doninbrewster]

Simply AMAZING Hunt for the Group!! Obviously a "Virgin" Site, what a Great day Big Congrats to all. Just one Colonial Copper is high on my wish list, it might never happen here in SW Ohio, but I'll keep swinging!

We hunted it twice before and got 30 coppers from the other hunts. Really kind of an amazing site. Yes, we'll schedule another hunt there. We try and mix it up. I picked up a 29 gram 14k bracelet at last weekends hunt and we have a "new" old spot scheduled for next Saturday. I can't wait.

 

[romeo-1]

That's a sweet hunt right there!!

 

[rodarian]

Mind boggling. Awesome!

 

[Carolina Tom]

I don't know what to say about that. Congrats. WOW...

 

[testing123]

Now that's a dream hunt!

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Congrats on the handfull of NICE coppers.

Yes sir that is BIG FUN !

Dave and I had a couple good sites like that a couple years back where we had 20 coppers a day between the two of us. My personal best was 12 coppers, june 6 /2013 we called that site copper mountain, yep big fun. I still wait for the snow to melt, but it is finally going quite fast now only a couple feet to go.

 

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[RestoringYourFinds]

Guess I will add my 2 cents on that hunt...

To follow up with don in ny's post, here are my finds, as well as our friend's Paul coins, once cleaned and Carol's stone ax. (Mine are not cleaned and I do not even dare touching them !!!)

My finds : a 1786 CT copper (bucket list ), a Georges II copper (bucket list), an unidentified copper, 5 buttons, a nice martingale... and a William III 1696 Shilling !!!! YES !!!!!!!!! DEFINITELY ON MY BUCKET LIST !



Paul's finds : a beautiful Jersey copper and King Georges II copper :



Carol's amazing stone ax :



Here are close ups of my 1696 William III silver Shilling :



I emailed a British archeologist last week and had a reply about an hour later. I was asking him more information about the coin. Here is my question and his reply :

I read with great interest your page about love tokens. Actually, I found this William III shilling, which I think dates back to 1695-1697 according to the details that are still visible.
I would like your opinion about this coin. The reverse is completely worn and smooth. The obverse bears the initial "B".
Reading your page, I thought my coin might be a "love token". Would you confirm this?
The coin was found metal detecting in the United States (in NY State) with my club.

Yes, William III shilling. It is almost certainly 1696. There does not seem to be a letter below the bust so that would make it a London mint coin. "love token' is a generic term for a coin used in some way as a memento or message - the 'B' suggests this might be the case. The coin is so worn I'd guess it circulated well into even, possibly, the 1800s. If so, it perhaps served as a 'quarter' in the American colonies, or as two bits to which it would approximate (but not exactly).

A friend of mine has a different explanation though and I think this is probably more likely. Here it is :

Shilling very interesting. For my 2 cents I doubt if it was a love token. One-once the reverse was made smooth that side was engraved with great detail and NEVER CIRCULATED. IE the reverse should show much more detail than the obverse. Two-The "B" is on the obverse, typically the "message" was on the reverse. The B looks more like a counter-stamp put on by a merchant signifying that he "B" would accept the worn piece at a set value.

Yes... YES... YYEES !!!

HH to all !!

 

[RestoringYourFinds]

If I didn't see it with my own eyes it would be hard to believe, but I was there. Such a concentration of colonial time period coins in a relatively small area was incredible to see. My mind was racing last night wondering what went on in that area back then, your aforementioned thoughts are definitely a great possibility.

I'm truly happy for my fellow club brothers and sisters on their awesome finds! Truly a Cinderella day! Thanks Don !

Glad to find you here Andy !