Quarters and cannon balls

ironhorse

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Hey hey diggers !
My last couple of hunts didnt exactly fill up my finds pouch to the brim but I did find a few keepers.

Recently a few of us commented on how few Edward Vll coins show up on hunts...well he's been showing up for me. It's a slicky but a good find just the same...1903 25 cents.
Same field but different site got my button save...early royal artillery cuff button with three stacked cannons topped with three cannon balls on a shield....my little bit of button porn for this post.
Back to quarters again ! As I mentioned in the past, we dont find a lot of seated coins way up north here but they are always fun to find when we do. Hunting a new site ( to me) always perks up your expectations for some great finds, this gave me my second seated this year! That's a first for me, more than one in a calendar year. You may remember my other seated quarter from the spring ... it too was a 1858...what are the odds?
And lastly, a nitnoid of the "what is it" variety. It reminds me of a seal matrix in shape and style but could be a fancy pipe tamper? Its copper alloy and broken along the shaft, there might have been a suspension loop at the broken end.
Let me know what you all think of this one.
So until next time that's my two times by two bits.

 

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Well done.
That is a really nice seated. We don't find much USA coinage at all here is NS. Some IHP's, buffalo nickel, Mercury dime, one Barber and that's it. Nothing silver and 19th century. I always assumed it was because Halifax currency didn't align well with USA currency, or so I have read. Whereas in NB for example they used a lot of US currency.
 

Well done.
That is a really nice seated. We don't find much USA coinage at all here is NS. Some IHP's, buffalo nickel, Mercury dime, one Barber and that's it. Nothing silver and 19th century. I always assumed it was because Halifax currency didn't align well with USA currency, or so I have read. Whereas in NB for example they used a lot of US currency.
You are on the money ( lol)
It is curious that the percentage of US coins we find from 1700s and 1800s is very low but I've found my share and it is a very thin slice but a slice none the less
Places closer to the border and more affluent regions get the lions share from my observation. On the west coast Vancouver Island and the lower mainland had a gold rush fuelling their supply. In southern Ontario on the Great Lakes theres better chances of catching Yankee money in the ground. New Brunswick makes sense as it is a border province but I've not noticed any great amounts showing up there( that's just me)
And as far as that goes it looks like Festivus for the rest of us as in, not much to see here!
Having said that I'll just keep getting out there...you're not going to find it if you dont go looking for it
 

Nice catches on the silvers.The button is in good contain also.
Wonder if that is a tamper or part of a seal. Is the face just plain/flat?
 

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