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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[Iron Patch]

OK, got it.
No sizes or weights, but assuming the book is a 1:1 scale which it looks roughly, there is a smaller issue about 16mm (measured picture), which are descibed as immitations with a closed loop 2 looking like a 9 with a rarity rating of 'R' (goes up to RRR) (Common, scarce, Rare, Very Rare, Extremely Rare)

Definitely not 16mm so I suspect the book is not to proper scale. , but I bet it is an imitation. I was going to suggest that, but I haven't heard of too many counterfeit trade token halfpennies.

 

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[CRUSADER]

OK, got it.
No sizes or weights, but assuming the book is a 1:1 scale which it looks roughly, there is a smaller issue about 16mm (measured picture), which are descibed as immitations with a closed loop 2 looking like a 9 with a rarity rating of 'R' (goes up to RRR) (Common, scarce, Rare, Very Rare, Extremely Rare)

Definitely not 16mm so I suspect the book is not to proper scale. , but I bet it is an imitation. I was going to suggest that, but I haven't heard of too many counterfeit trade token halfpennies.

sorry my mistake meant 26mm

Not heard of too many found myself but it does happen.

 

[Iron Patch]

OK, got it.
No sizes or weights, but assuming the book is a 1:1 scale which it looks roughly, there is a smaller issue about 16mm (measured picture), which are descibed as immitations with a closed loop 2 looking like a 9 with a rarity rating of 'R' (goes up to RRR) (Common, scarce, Rare, Very Rare, Extremely Rare)

Definitely not 16mm so I suspect the book is not to proper scale. , but I bet it is an imitation. I was going to suggest that, but I haven't heard of too many counterfeit trade token halfpennies.

sorry my mistake meant 26mm

Not heard of too many found myself but it does happen.

I bet that's it! Pretty cool find.

 

[shaun7]

Great finds IH

Thanks for getting to that Cartwheel first

 

[Iron Patch]

Great finds IH

Thanks for getting to that Cartwheel first

Yeah he thought it was an Iron Bros thing but had to tell him I have to be the one to dig it.