✅ SOLVED Very Toasted Copper. Any takers?

[steelheadwill]

Boy I was pumped when I dug this greenie from a site that's given me my oldest finds,
wrapped it in a wet leaf as is and was sorely disappointed to later see the item in photo #1.
After some harsh methods I see a large headed bust facing right (as you look) on obverse.
On reverse, there's an exuerge, what else I can't tell, sometimes I think it's a harp frame,
but no Irish coins I've seen have the exuerge. maybe it's Brittannia with shield to left.

Given it's state of decay, I am thinking it's older than GIII. (though I think I see the ribbon to left of bust) a 1723 Woods was found very close in MUCH better shape.
It is currently 6.8 grams and 26.8 mm, and is medallic orientation .

thanks for looking and HH All!

 

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[Erik in NJ]

Hi! I don't know what the coin is, but what is an "exuerge?" I have never seen this word before.

 

[steelheadwill]

Hi! I don't know what the coin is, but what is an "exuerge?" I have never seen this word before.

Erik, it's the line above the date on some coins. I may not be spelling it right.
example:

 

[Mackaydon]

Erik,
The word is 'exergue'; the space on a coin or medal below the main image, usually denoted by a line between the upper image and information below--in the exergue. In the coin example above, the date is in the exergue.
Don.....

 

[Don in SJ]

Looks like a harp reverse design, so if it is, than a KGIII Irish Halfpenny, most likely a counterfeit, which a lot where back then. But if that is a date line, than a counterfeit KGIII British Halfpenny.
Either way a KGIII as you thought it might be.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Erik,
The word is 'exergue'; the space on a coin or medal below the main image, usually denoted by a line between the upper image and information below--in the exergue. In the coin example above, the date is in the exergue.
Don.....

Thanks Herbie and Don for the clarification. Nice to learn a new word. Good luck on the ID.

 

[steelheadwill]

Thanks Don, Guess his fat head and ribbon tell the tale, I think i see Brittannias shield to left (wrong sidE?), Mackaydon, thanks for the concise definition and spelling
lost a lot of diameter too, thought they were 29mm, but likely being a cft all bets are off.
strangely this would be my first dug GIII, over a dozen GIIs, several GIs, two Guglielmvs, and a W&M.... (well I have more completely smooth coppers than IDable ones, so I probably got some georgeIIIs in that bowl)
HH all! Herbie