Bill D. (VA)
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Got another invite from my good buddy Stan to drive up and join him in another grueling colonial pit dig at a site dating to about 1650. Had a lot of fun as usual and dug some nice artifacts. I have to clean all the stuff up today and will hopefully post everything later today or tomorrow. But I wanted to get this one find up this morning. Before I sifted the dirt back into the huge hole I was scanning the pile with my detector. The only positive hit I had all day doing this was what I thought was some kind of thin button. But after doing a bit of cleaning on it this morning I can see it's some kind of very cool looking early token or coin. I'm leaning toward token at this point, but was hoping someone might recognize this and be able to help with the ID. I can see the word "EDWARD" on one side, and the last King Edward reigned between 1547 and 1553. That would be awesome it it was that old. I dry cleaned it as best as I could, and do not plan to put water on it. I'm also hesitant to use some of the other products that I sometimes use on old coppers like mineral oil, blue ribbon coin cleaner, etc, although I may put some renaissance wax on it at some point. Hope someone can help with this.
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