My first Large Cent is quite unique!

[Corvid]

When I found this piece I coudn't see any detail on it and assumed it was a piece of a clock or something. After a brief cleaning at home I noticed the 'O' on the reverse and was shocked to find that it was a large cent! My very first!! After some discussion on a Facebook forum group, I think it is a matron head which has been made into a spur rowel or a gear of some sort. Still amazed and can't stop looking at this beauty!

 

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[Brian C.]

It looks like it may have been used for a spur.

 

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[tracker_usmc]

Very cool!

 

[l.cutler]

I have actually seen a fair amount of these, most likely a pastry crimper. The teeth are way to small to be effective as a spur. One or sometimes two of these would be mounted side by side in a wooden handle and used to roll the edges of pies and other pastries.

 

[pepperj]

I have actually seen a fair amount of these, most likely a pastry crimper. The teeth are way to small to be effective as a spur. One or sometimes two of these would be mounted side by side in a wooden handle and used to roll the edges of pies and other pastries.

Having dug a few in England and seeing many other ones ID as you stated my first impression was the LC was a pastry instead of spur related.

Either way it's a one of a kind finds for sure, and a sweet keeper. Congrats

 

[Scrappy]

Having dug a few in England and seeing many other ones ID as you stated my first impression was the LC was a pastry instead of spur related.

Either way it's a one of a kind finds for sure, and a sweet keeper. Congrats

I've found several myself, but all had offset holes which made it a whizzer toy. I wonder how many Pastry rollers were repurposed into whizzers? I would need to look, but I think I have two with three holes, and only one with two off center holes.

 

[pepperj]

I've found several myself, but all had offset holes which made it a whizzer toy. I wonder how many Pastry rollers were repurposed into whizzers? I would need to look, but I think I have two with three holes, and only one with two off center holes.

Now that would be the trifecta of coins, monetary, pastry, and toy, deserves a place in the display.

 

[deershed]

That is really cool!! Defiantly a one of a kind.

 

[Trezurehunter]

That is a very nice piece. It truly shows how our ancestors had to make due with what they had. "Use it up - wear it out - make it due - or due without." Today we just hop in the car and go to the hardware store, or order it online. If that were my piece, it would be in its own little display case with a short story about the place you found it at. Congrats on a great find.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on a very unique old copper

 

[dman80]

That is pretty cool. Recently found my first large cent as well, it just had a hole in it.

 

[marion moore]

it looks like a one-way rachet gear. very cool find. its a great find. BANNER

 

[watercolor]

That is such a cool recovery. . . I'd rather find something like that then just a plain 'ole LC. . . (well, I'd still be happy either way)

 

[Rustic]

That find is living proof of the ingenuity of our forebears. That is an awesome find, huge congrats.

 

[ATwardo223]

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[Kurios1]

If it is a spur rowel...
theoretically there's another one to match it?....
Congrats on such a beauty of a LC.....

Unless he had a peg leg but, I doubt it. Get after the second one Dave.

 

[Kurios1]

Whatever it was designed for it has more Eye Candy Appeal than any of those bimbos that ever made it into a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. I'd be showing it off to everyone and find a prominent place to display it. Maybe even hanging from a necklace but, then it might get lost again. He hee!

 

[Jackpot G-Larz]

I believe that is a home made spur rowel. I found a KG2 turned into one.

 

[Gaspipe]

My guess is it was made as a whizzer. A children’s toy made by running a string through the hole and pulling it to make a whizzing sound. I have colonial flat buttons like that ; but just a guess.

 

[EccentricInTexas]

I agree with Spur Rowel Really neat find!!!

 

[salvatorparadise]

Here is another apparently:

https://www.xpmetaldetectorsamericas.com/real-finds/large-cent-spur-rowel