✅ SOLVED I thought this was a button...but it isn't

[creskol]

Went to an area along the lower James River that I had hunted before, and was looking for some Civil War related stuff. Instead, I found some neat old buttons that were so cruddy it is taking a while to clean them. One of them I cleaned the face on only to discover it wasn't a button. It looks like an old ...OLD .. VERY OLD .. coin. Here is a pic .. what are your thoughts?

 

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[snaps]

Roman? It happens, I know one was found in West Virginia a few months back

 

[Gene Mean]

That's exciting, congrats. Hope it's identified and an oldie!

This is silver, yours looks copper but man that would be coolio.

 

[civil_war22]

Copper/Bronze coin of the Emperor Magnus Maximas

 

[smokeythecat]

Roman. Lots of early ships' captains kept them as souvenirs and then lost them for us to find.

 

[creskol]

Roman. Lots of early ships' captains kept them as souvenirs and then lost them for us to find.

Funny you should say that, Smokey.. I just now finished cleaning the face of this button.

 

[smokeythecat]

I found a 1300 year old Byzantine coin in SC once upon a time ago. Plantation owner was a coin collector. My buddies found Roman coins there also. Also found a couple Romans in NJ where they brought the ships back from WWII and offloaded the sand from the Mediterranean and the sand contained the coins.

 

[civil_war22]

I found a 1300 year old Byzantine coin in SC once upon a time ago. Plantation owner was a coin collector. My buddies found Roman coins there also. Also found a couple Romans in NJ where they brought the ships back from WWII and offloaded the sand from the Mediterranean and the sand contained the coins.

Funny this came up, I also remember finding one on a civil war site. Actually I’m pretty sure it was on that union campsite on my families property. It was super super ugly, and very toasty, but right away I was scouring the books to figure out what it was. Before advent of the internet, and books were all we had to look up coins with. It’s true. Look at us now, most of us if and when we go to foreign countries bring home foreign coins, it’s highly possible someone brought one home from there, or it’s also possible the landowner even was a collector and had lost it, it always puzzled me why would someone over here be carrying that in their pocket, I mean on our property that was literally nothing but woods before the old lady we bought it off of. She bought the land, and the old farmhouse we used as a rent house, and the original owner of it was living there during the civil war when they used his two story house as a field hospital, so I always wondered how in the heck it got there, and why someone would be randomly carrying a old coin such as that around, maybe for good luck, or just thought it was cool, I guess we’ll never know.

 

[A2coins]

That's an amazing find just the history and thinking who may have owned to. Great find

 

[nkellam22]

Def Roman
Most likely a souvenir that someone lost but I would say its authentic
Heard of it happening before