great start to the 2010 season, colonial goodies!!!

[ironhorse]

After a long winter of no detecting ,I recently returned home from working in western Canada to the best detecting conditions we've seen in a long time. Patriot joined me and Iron Patch for a series of hunts on some nice old colonial sites we had lined up for weeks now. Each day proved that there's still a bunch left to find and we did our best to make this year memorable to say the least.
Our first day included an old French Acadian and Rev War site, lots of buttons ,coins and relics. Day 2 put us at an old shipbuilding site which seemed to be loaded with coins and bits of ship spike fragments. And on day 3 we got back to a good old site which was settled by Loyalists, as far as we know.

It took us a couple of fields which held nothing to appreciate the sites we did end up making our days from.

here's the finds!!
a nice little pile of colonial coins, a pewter button which needs an id, crown over some script ARM(ED), some relics , a harp, bayonette frog and scabbard tip, and half a buttplate from a musket, a really nice button, my best copper of the weekend a 1792 Camac Kyan and Camac token from Ireland, a counterstamped coin, I believe it's P.Plun(ket) I think I've seen this one before, a nice French silver 1729 1/20 ecu I believe,and one for the id gurus, half a coin? could be a medallion or jeton, I'm looking forward to any insight on this one

and the pics!!

 

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[romeo-1]

Wow! Now that's the way to start the season! A lot of finds there that are still on my wish list!

 

[Iron Patch]

Awesome pile! I definitely have seen your unknown before and I would guess you're right, a jetton. I bet it's an old one too!

 

[Gator-Flea]

Nice finds.............

 

[Shadowmanflash]

Hey Ironhorse, I'll tell you like I did Iron Patch, what a fantastic hunt you all had and some of the most awesome finds I ever have seen. Keep up the good work and you as well are an asset to our hobby, Ken.

 

[mainer]

Nice finds Ironhorse! You guys killed it the last few days.

 

[gwdigger]

Ohhhh this makes me want to get out swinging....

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

WOW. What a bountiful post.
Chris

 

[Hidden_Realm]

Glad your back and in the swing of things Iron, and a great haul for a start. Sweet handful of tokies you guys dug!!

 

[Rickiowa2009]

Wow, a lot of interesting finds

 

[The Patriot]

You sure made out a like a bandit too IH...was good to see you boys again...and hope we get a good hunt in the fall too...

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

You Iron Dudes are really cleanin' up. A day that good arround here would be unheard of.

Do you too have back problems from having to carry a finds pouch so big


VPR

 

[Bubba65]

Nice finds Ironhorse, you guys did well Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bubba65

 

[Don in SJ]

The deadly Trio did rather well on copper and relic finds. I don't know which find I like the best in your post, but the Irish token did catch my eye more than the silver.

Don

 

[ironhorse]

You Iron Dudes are really cleanin' up. A day that good arround here would be unheard of.

Do you too have back problems from having to carry a finds pouch so big


VPR

my back is fine shape, although I did accuse Patriot of leaving a furrow in a field from dragging his loaded pouch across it one time, he cleaned up and had a mitt full of finds from that spot, but you know, it wouldn't hurt my feelings to have a site that made me walk funny after leaving it loaded down with relics

 

[ironhorse]

The deadly Trio did rather well on copper and relic finds. I don't know which find I like the best in your post, but the Irish token did catch my eye more than the silver.

Don

all said and done, you know I like the coppers too, but make no mistake, if I could rattle a silver out like that every so often I might be more interested in them too, there seems to be so much more variety in the copper coins and that makes them a little more interesting to find, for me anyways

 

[Iron Patch]

The deadly Trio did rather well on copper and relic finds. I don't know which find I like the best in your post, but the Irish token did catch my eye more than the silver.

Don

Those turn up a lot here and I've literally been finding them since my first day finding 4 old coppers. It's the most common trade/Condor token found here and I'm not sure why, but I guess something has to be.

 

[CRUSADER]

Well that half a Jeton is a tough one.

Instinst tells me French late 17th C - 18th C, the letters are going to be some kinda Latin phrase eg the ND could be Nobis Devm MD? (problem is the top half would have the beginning) The P B looks to be repeated on the Obverse, so P (first name) Be??(last name)
Can't quite work out if the right hand guy is presenting a medal or an award to the left guy/woman

 

[Iron Patch]

Well that half a Jeton is a tough one.

Instinst tells me French late 17th C - 18th C, the letters are going to be some kinda Latin phrase eg the ND could be Nobis Devm MD? (problem is the top half would have the beginning) The P B looks to be repeated on the Obverse, so P (first name) Be??(last name)
Can't quite work out if the right hand guy is presenting a medal or an award to the left guy/woman

Sounds right, and probably the reason we don't see more is they predate our sites by too many years. It has already come up in conversation that this site might date to the early 18th century where most of our others tend to be closer to the middle. Even though there might only be 20-40 years in the difference we are making finds that never turn up at the many other sites we hunt. It's actually a treat it being different!

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Fantastic