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- Jul 2, 2012
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Decided to walk the field in lengths today. Glad I did. Scored 2 colonial coppers - one a 1771 KGIII, the other is too far gone to get a date. Here they are in their plugs (bc I know dirty coins are like porn :P)
The cleaned pics:
1771 King George III Halfpenny
Undated King George II Halfpenny
Also got 6 buttons and two broken buckle pieces:
Buckle pieces:
"Best Quality" backmarked button (20mm):
Other buttons ~ Nickel is for reference. Only the one has any obverse patterns:
And some other small oddities:
1930 Montgomery County dog license tag:
I think this is a lead seal or part of one, at least:
Some lead bullets ~ Left is a spent shotgun slug, far right are spent .22s; the middle one is bigger than .45 but smaller than .50; any ideas?
But the crown jewel of the day ~ and this even beats out my 1911 quarter eagle, imho ~ was THIS:
There's enough detail to see it's a 1793 Flowing Hair large cent with the reverse wreath. The edge is reeded and I think lettered but I haven't done any cleaning other than to brush away most of the dirt and a peroxide dip. I can see most of the date.
Damn, what a weekend...!
CLEANING UPDATES
The pics shown above are after the initial round of cold peroxide dips that I did. At hogge's recommendation, I did two more with heated peroxide. Here they are:
If you think that's an improvement, please say so, so I know I'm doing this right. Taking it one step at a time here...
The cleaned pics:
1771 King George III Halfpenny
Undated King George II Halfpenny
Also got 6 buttons and two broken buckle pieces:
Buckle pieces:
"Best Quality" backmarked button (20mm):
Other buttons ~ Nickel is for reference. Only the one has any obverse patterns:
And some other small oddities:
1930 Montgomery County dog license tag:
I think this is a lead seal or part of one, at least:
Some lead bullets ~ Left is a spent shotgun slug, far right are spent .22s; the middle one is bigger than .45 but smaller than .50; any ideas?
But the crown jewel of the day ~ and this even beats out my 1911 quarter eagle, imho ~ was THIS:
There's enough detail to see it's a 1793 Flowing Hair large cent with the reverse wreath. The edge is reeded and I think lettered but I haven't done any cleaning other than to brush away most of the dirt and a peroxide dip. I can see most of the date.
Damn, what a weekend...!
CLEANING UPDATES
The pics shown above are after the initial round of cold peroxide dips that I did. At hogge's recommendation, I did two more with heated peroxide. Here they are:
If you think that's an improvement, please say so, so I know I'm doing this right. Taking it one step at a time here...
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Dread Pirate Roberts 
, would you? :P
