Coin looking thingy, id help?

[relichunters]

I dug this up near a 1930's house about 4 inches down. It's about the size of a half dollar I guess, it's bigger then a quarter and is heavy. It weighs about 2 1/2 times more then the penny. I thought it might be one of those things you plug out to make a hole, but I have one of those and this one is a little bigger and much heavier. It weighs about the same exact weigh as a half dollar, and if you drop it (at a low level of course) it makes the same exact *ding* coin noise.

But I don't think it's a coin. Also it is NOT magnetic, maybe it's lead?

 

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[hogge]

Have you given it the peroxide bath yet?

 

[relichunters]

Nope just leave it set in pure peroxide?

 

[RELICDUDE07]

I think its a old coin/ or token congrats relichunter

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like a blank Georgian halfpenny to me

 

[BuckleBoy]

Have you given it the peroxide bath yet?

it appears to have been cleaned with a tootbrush and water

 

[relichunters]

Have you given it the peroxide bath yet?

it appears to have been cleaned with a tootbrush and water

Yes I used a toothbrush and water to get the dirt of it. Shouldn't harm it tho.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Have you given it the peroxide bath yet?

it appears to have been cleaned with a tootbrush and water

Yes I used a toothbrush and water to get the dirt of it. Shouldn't harm it tho.

Water IS a cleaning method, and it CAN harm your coin. And when you use water and a toothbrush, you can remove all of the detail off an early copper.

You should educate yourself by reading Don in SJ's post in the cleaning/preservation section on cleaning Large Cents.


-Buckles

 

[CRUSADER]

Have you given it the peroxide bath yet?

it appears to have been cleaned with a tootbrush and water

Yes I used a toothbrush and water to get the dirt of it. Shouldn't harm it tho.

Water IS a cleaning method, and it CAN harm your coin. And when you use water and a toothbrush, you can remove all of the detail off an early copper.

You should educate yourself by reading Don in SJ's post in the cleaning/preservation section on cleaning Large Cents.


-Buckles

thats why I get so many blanks then a blank is a blank.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

I guess my way of spit and soda is not a very good way either Its a copper coin and much older then the 1930 house you were at....

 

[oldsledz]

Maybe a Canadian large cent?

 

[RELICDUDE07]

So whats the coin look like today relichunter?

 

[RJH02]

Nice find!

 

[east tx digger]

I heat the PEROXIDE in the microwave for about a minute in a glass bowl, drop the coin in and wait till it quits bubbling. Then rinse dry and repeat if need be. Sometimes several times. Good Luck!

 

[relichunters]

It's about the same, the peroxide didn't do much to it.

 

[outback2000]

Looks like a copper blacksmiths token