Detecting Fool
Full Member
- Jan 9, 2005
- 172
- 270
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Manticore starting June 2023
Minelab Equinox 800
Prior to 2020 - Whites VX3, XLT, Spectrum XLT, 6000di and 1DB
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Well, I went home to Connecticut this past weekend for three reason. My younger brother was coming home from the Marines to visit, it was fathers day, and to do a little detecting at the 1840's house my step-father lives in, since everything could be addressed properly all at the same time.
Well, I did not get to do much detecting, only about 20 minutes, but I did manage to find 16 cents in clad that I am sure that I dropped when I was in high school, and some sort of coin/token that I have not yet been able to identify.
The problem with this coin/token is that it was found in very moist ground, but was only an inch under the ground because it was laying on top of an old field stone, and over time, with the constant wet earth clinging to it and drying out, has caused the coins to become severly corroded. If I were to post a photo of the coin, I do not think you would be able to make out any details at all, so I will give what little identifying marks there are.
1. The coin is the exact same size as an early (pre 1840) large cent.
2. The coin has two wreaths (one on each side) and they resemble the wreaths on the large cents in the 1810s-1820, where there is no fraction below, but only the left stem is sticking out of the bottom.
3. The coin/token does not appear to have any date (there still is a huge cement like encrustation in the center of one side of the coin).
4. The coin has denticles on both side, like the large cents from the 1790s.
5. The coin has writing around the rim on both sides, unlike any US large cent sized coin.
6. Of the writing the only letters I can make out are BUCK. There are letters before the BUCK, and none after, but I can not make out the letters before. I was thinking BUCK might be Sears & RoeBUCK, but a search of Sears & Roebuck tokens revealed nothing even close and I am pretty sure that the letters before BUCK are not ROE.
7. Inside one of the wreaths, it has the letters ROY. The ROY though maybe TROY. I cant tell if the T is a ding or actually supposed to be there.
Like I said, the coin/token/whatever it is, is in realy corroded, encrusted condition. It is soaking in olive oil, and that does seem to be helping a very little bit. If anyone wants to take a stab at this and has some questions, I will be more then happy to try to answer them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Anthony
Well, I did not get to do much detecting, only about 20 minutes, but I did manage to find 16 cents in clad that I am sure that I dropped when I was in high school, and some sort of coin/token that I have not yet been able to identify.
The problem with this coin/token is that it was found in very moist ground, but was only an inch under the ground because it was laying on top of an old field stone, and over time, with the constant wet earth clinging to it and drying out, has caused the coins to become severly corroded. If I were to post a photo of the coin, I do not think you would be able to make out any details at all, so I will give what little identifying marks there are.
1. The coin is the exact same size as an early (pre 1840) large cent.
2. The coin has two wreaths (one on each side) and they resemble the wreaths on the large cents in the 1810s-1820, where there is no fraction below, but only the left stem is sticking out of the bottom.
3. The coin/token does not appear to have any date (there still is a huge cement like encrustation in the center of one side of the coin).
4. The coin has denticles on both side, like the large cents from the 1790s.
5. The coin has writing around the rim on both sides, unlike any US large cent sized coin.
6. Of the writing the only letters I can make out are BUCK. There are letters before the BUCK, and none after, but I can not make out the letters before. I was thinking BUCK might be Sears & RoeBUCK, but a search of Sears & Roebuck tokens revealed nothing even close and I am pretty sure that the letters before BUCK are not ROE.
7. Inside one of the wreaths, it has the letters ROY. The ROY though maybe TROY. I cant tell if the T is a ding or actually supposed to be there.
Like I said, the coin/token/whatever it is, is in realy corroded, encrusted condition. It is soaking in olive oil, and that does seem to be helping a very little bit. If anyone wants to take a stab at this and has some questions, I will be more then happy to try to answer them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Anthony
