Yesterday I hit two sites for 2hrs at each. The first site was the third of five homes I’ve recently received permission to detect east of Toronto. The first site was a c.1890 property in town. All I was finding here were modern coins until the 1797 George III popped up!
(pic shown of what it used to look like) I also found a heavy brass pocket watch-case and a ’38 &’42 Wheatie here. Next, I moved to a field that is now planted with winter wheat, but the farmer said it was all right for me to detect it. I found a 1904 Edward LC here last weekend and yesterday I found a 1901 Victoria LC! I can’t help it… when hunting farm fields I just have to pick up all the glass a pottery I find!
Thanks for looking,
Dave
PS. Tomorrow I have 4 sites planned for 6hrs of detecting… tomorrow’s forecast is for flurries & 34F!
KING GEORGE III - ONE PENCE COIN
The "Cartwheel" coins were struck in coin alignment at Matthew Boulton's mint in Soho, Birmingham using coining presses developed by Boulton and James Watt. The concept behind the broad, raised rim was to protect the coin from undue wear. The incuse legends were supposedly to make life difficult for forgers. The size of the coins was a (successful) attempt to restore confidence to the coinage in that the intrinsic value of the metal plus an allowance for the cost of production was equal to the nominal value of the coin. The One Pence ‘cartwheel penny’ weighed one ounce and the Two Pence, two ounces. In 1797 the first, and only, copper two penny and the first penny coins were produced under contract although the smaller denominations did not follow until later. These coins were comparatively large, having a broad raised rim with the inscription pressed below the surface and became known as the cartwheel pennies. Over 45 million were minted in two years.
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But if you ask Romeo about when he dug his, even after digging many on the ones myself, I all of a sudden got a brain cramp and couldn't decided if he had a two... even though it had got my attention as maybe being one at first glance. I think I settled on it being a two before we got back, but if you ever hold them side by side there's quite a difference and I wonder how I had any doubt at all. Maybe because it was the first in about a decade of old coins is what did it.
