Dig all those signals! Counterfeit (maybe) Connecticut Copper!

[Bramblefind]

I went out this morning to a site I have been going to for years. It is really where I got my start detecting. On other digs I found a 1795 large cent and a whole bunch of nice buttons there. But it has been very quiet lately. I was there for nearly 2 hours and not finding much at all and decided to head back home.

I went to the old road and started walking up the side. It is also an area where I have dug many modern bullets etc. Since when the local farmers were teens they used to practice shooting there. I got a solid "zinc" signal and I thought ok here is a shotgun shell end to finish the day. This will be my last target.

I put the shovel in and flipped the dirt and out popped this! I couldn't believe it! Probably 2 inches down! I scanned it again just to be sure and once again it came up very low in the zinc range.

After showing it to some colonial coin experts there was a request made to nick the edge to see if any copper color would come through - I did a good scratch to it and it looks white. It also shows signs of being cast. Still inconclusive on what its origins might be - my gut since I first picked it up is that it is a counterfeit. But I haven't handled too many Connecticuts.

** I give up on getting the photos in the correct order**

 

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[hamiddetecting]

Congratulation!

 

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[steelheadwill]

Congrats on your 18th C confirmation
Certainly an awesome find !!
Best wishes & HH to you! Herbie.

 

[TheRockDoc]

WEll, good luck figuring out what it is... I cant help much but I have heard about counterfits that came from the era having extreme demand, so whether its real, or countfit, I am guessing it will be a very very good find. On another note, (it applies in my opinion), I have only been detecting for less than 6 months, and a week or two ago, I was in a very old yard when I got an obvious zinc cent signal, I dug it hoping for gold or something, and to my amazement it was a wheat cent that had been re-acting to something in the soil... Lots of stinky crud on it, an in terrible shape but it is for sure a wheat cent... so you just never know what can really be going on until you dig to find out.


happy hunting.

Chris.

 

[steelheadwill]

Chris, maybe you have a plated steel '43 cent....
i don't recall hearing about one of these recovered before,
old iron can give some odd signals. Best digs

WEll, good luck figuring out what it is... I cant help much but I have heard about counterfits that came from the era having extreme demand, so whether its real, or countfit, I am guessing it will be a very very good find. On another note, (it applies in my opinion), I have only been detecting for less than 6 months, and a week or two ago, I was in a very old yard when I got an obvious zinc cent signal, I dug it hoping for gold or something, and to my amazement it was a wheat cent that had been re-acting to something in the soil... Lots of stinky crud on it, an in terrible shape but it is for sure a wheat cent... so you just never know what can really be going on until you dig to find out.


happy hunting.

Chris.