Found the Remnants of a Late 1800s Coin Purse with Two IHs and a Flat Button!

[FreeBirdTim]

Found the Remnants of a Late 1800's Coin Purse with Two IH's and a Flat Button!

Not 100% positive on this find, but it appears to be the remnants of a late 1800's or maybe early 1900's coin purse!You guys decide and give me your thoughts on it.

I got a very weird signal and decided to dig it. The first item I found was 5 inches down. It was a brass snap type closure with some bits of leather still attached. Still got a signal in the hole, so I dug some more. I ended up finding three coin sized objects a little deeper down! I could clearly see that one was an IH, but the other two objects were toasted.

I took them home and gave them a very warm hydrogen peroxide bath. The first one I cleaned ended up being a flat button with no shank. It's pretty toasted with no design on the front and no backmark.

The second one turned out to be a corroded 1890 IH! Rough condition, but I was happy because I knew the last one was also an IH. That gave me two IH's in one hole, which I've never dug before.

The last one I cleaned up was an 1886 IH in really nice shape! It cleaned up great! Not sure why one was in really great shape and the other was so corroded, but I'll take them!

Here's a few pics:

 

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[lookindown]

Yeah that had to be a little change purse. Would have never thought those two coins came from the same hole. Just goes to show, its not just the soil that causes a coins condition but what its next to in the ground...that toasted one was probably touching that button...congrats on a cool find.

 

[Carolina Tom]

That is a really cool find. Congrats. GL&HH.

 

[dirtlooter]

great coin spill, makes you wonder if it was maybe even something already on the coins before lost, some people have very acidic hand oils which tend to make guns rust just from handling them and as mentioned, contact with another metal. who knows but it does make you appreciate the really nice ones when you find them... heck deteriorating zincoids do that all the time with me. she probably searched everywhere for that coin purse and you finally found it or what was left of it

 

[FreeBirdTim]

that toasted one was probably touching that button...congrats on a cool find.

That's probably exactly what happened to the 1890 IH. I'm just happy to get a date off both of the IH's. I've found 9 this year and 2 were no dates. I HATE no date coins! So frustrating!

 

[ATpro5]

Would love to know the story... like why was that button in their coin purse? Only if we could go back in time and find out.... maybe one day haha

 

[park pirate]

Awesome..

 

[Plug N Play]

Cool finds.
Someday I'll find an indian head penny, and I'll be so happy.
Would be extra fun finding an exciting cluster such as yours.

 

[bootybandit]

Nice finds! Congrats!

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Someday I'll find an indian head penny, and I'll be so happy.

I only found 1 last year, until I figured out the problem this summer. I was usually hunting in "coin" mode at the older sites. For some reason IH's don't read as well in coin mode. Since I switched over to jewelry mode, I've been finding a lot of IH's and a ton of old flat buttons.

 

[CASPER-2]

NICE

 

[UnderMiner]

Sweat find! Amazing the purse is still around at all! Typically if leather is attached to brass or copper the leather nearest the metal will last the longest as the tarnish from the metal seeps into the leather and kills any bacteria that would otherwise quickly eat it.

 

[CRUSADER]

Not read it all, but looks like a leather rivet, not a purse?

 

[Indianametal]

Great find! I have found two coin purses this year but both were empty . Trust me I made sure the hole was empty.