🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Washington Token?

[fyrffytr1]

While hunting a site that dates to the early 1800s at the latest I found a deteriorated pewter token. It is about the size of a quarter. I can make out ....ent USA 1797 Washington with a bust facing right on one side. On the other side I can see George and a weak bust with what looks like a ribbon. I also found a silver trade ring, some buttons, other stuff and a small piece of silver with a hall mark on it that reads PB over AB. That mark dates to 1798.
I need help Iding the Washington piece.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

Here are some more of the finds from this site. I wish it was close enough to hunt more often, but it is worth the trip.

 

[vhs07]

This loos like your GW token, although yours looks like it's Die Cast. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia72678.html

 

[fyrffytr1]

This loos like your GW token, although yours looks like it's Die Cast. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia72678.html

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I saw this one. It is a copper-nickel reproduction, but I don't know what year it was issued. Would copper-nickel deteriorate like the one I pictured. I am 99% sure mine is pewter.

 

[Red-Coat]

Some oldies there! The piece of silver has the mark used by Peter & Ann Bateman of London, but not “from 1798” (unless there is a date letter as a serifed capital ‘C’ somewhere that you haven’t shown). The Batemans were in partnership between 1790 and 1799, with the PB over AB mark being first registered in May 1791.

 

[ncsuwolf]

Are the silver and brass curved pieces in the bottom center/right of your second post musket rifle parts?

 

[fyrffytr1]

Are the silver and brass curved pieces in the bottom center/right of your second post musket rifle parts?

The silver piece at the bottom is a ring that I showed in the first set of pictures. The brass piece with a design on it is a broken part of gun furniture. There are 3 roundballs on the right with a piece of rolled lead above it. At the top are what we call belt keepers. There have been about 50 of them found in a 100 sq. ft. area at this site. We think they may have been sewn together and used as a pouch strap by the native Americans that inhabited the area. On the very left is a rolled copper cone point missing part of the wider end. These were used in the late 1700s. The button below the Washington token is one piece.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Some oldies there! The piece of silver has the mark used by Peter & Ann Bateman of London, but not “from 1798” (unless there is a date letter as a serifed capital ‘C’ somewhere that you haven’t shown). The Batemans were in partnership between 1790 and 1799, with the PB over AB mark being first registered in May 1791.

They are the only marks on it. The piece is about the size of my little fingernail. A friend sent me a scan from one of his reference books, but I can't find it now. I will ask him to resend it.

 

[ncsuwolf]

The silver piece at the bottom is a ring that I showed in the first set of pictures. The brass piece with a design on it is a broken part of gun furniture. There are 3 roundballs on the right with a piece of rolled lead above it. At the top are what we call belt keepers. There have been about 50 of them found in a 100 sq. ft. area at this site. We think they may have been sewn together and used as a pouch strap by the native Americans that inhabited the area. On the very left is a rolled copper cone point missing part of the wider end. These were used in the late 1700s. The button below the Washington token is one piece.

Sorry… I see the “ring” now that I look again.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Looks like a good hunt!

 

[fyrffytr1]

Looks like a good hunt!

It was worth the drive. 😎

 

[fyrffytr1]

They are the only marks on it. The piece is about the size of my little fingernail. A friend sent me a scan from one of his reference books, but I can't find it now. I will ask him to resend it.

Here are the marks I went by and the book they came from.

 

[Red-Coat]

Here are the marks I went by and the book they came from.

OK... but that image is truncated, with the other marks to the right of the maker mark chopped off. If the other parts of the hallmark include a serifed capital letter 'C' then the date would indeed be 1798. However the 'PB over AB' mark was not used in one year only for the partnership that ran between 1790-1799, and that particular mark was, as I said, first registered in London in May 1791. The record for it still exists.

 

[Cariboo5]

Here are some more of the finds from this site. I wish it was close enough to hunt more often, but it is worth the trip.View attachment 2193882View attachment 2193883

Your little honey hole just keeps on producing ....... thanks for sharing the pictures...