Weird coin found in North Carolina

[DiggingThePast777]

Weird coin found in North Carolina what is it

 

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[Sod Buster]

Picture?

 

[DiggingThePast777]

Weird coin found in North Carolina what is it

 

[DiggingThePast777]

Length 21.33mm

 

[brianc053]

Length 21.33mm

Hey DetectingFL318, I just replied to your Florida post about a weird coin, and in that post your measurement seemed off.
In this post your measurement seems even more off. As said in the other post, a US quarter is 24.1mm diameter. Your picture shows your weird NC coin as LARGER than the quarter, but you say it measures 21mm.

Did you get your pictures mixed up?

Or is there something else...weird going on here?

 

[DiggingThePast777]

This time I got 27mm

 

[Mackaydon]

Agreed; this coin is now larger than a quarter.
In your previous post, the coin was smaller than a quarter.
What gives?
Don...

 

[brianc053]

It might help to know where you found the coin - what kind of location (not a specific place). Beach? Historic town? Along a river? In the woods?
And how deep was it?

Truthfully, you may never know what this is. If you can't see any features on the coin, then any guess will be - just a guess.
The location can help narrow things down (you're not likely to find a 1700's King George halfpenny, which is normally about 28mm in diameter, in a new baseball field with fill dirt.)

I've got a couple of these and can only guess what they are.
One of them frustrated me so much (because I thought it might be just a punch-out from construction material) I bent it in half, and it's clear it was pure copper - probably a 1700's-1800's British coin. Oops - I never would have figured out what it was anyway.

 

[ticndig]

was it found in northflorlina ?

 

[DiggingThePast777]

Brianc053 I found it in a newly plowed field in Wilson North Carolina as best as I can remember it was about a foot maybe a little more deep in the ground

 

[Goodyguy]

What makes you think it's a coin?

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Looks thin, so I'm going with a King George halfpenny. The few I've found measure anywhere from 26 to 28 mm. Tons of counterfeit KG coppers were minted back in the 1700's, so the coin's actual diameter can fluctuate quite a bit.

 

[TannersHatch]

I agree looks like a half penny to me.

 

[DiggingThePast777]

It only weighs 6.82g