Care to speculate?

[MassSandman]

Just a bit curious here: I had permission to hunt around a church that has been in operation since 1804. Amid some junk and clad, I dug a target, heavily corroded and very thin, slightly larger than a quarter, maybe 26-27mm, but gives nearly the identical tone and cursor position as a nickel! I'm thinking this is probably some kind of token or medallion. A Large Cent wouldn't present as a nickel, would it? I didn't find any coin that had a similar copper/nickel composite as the non-wartime nickels do, but no luck. Any guesses? A picture would be useless, even if I could post as there's really nothing legible on this piece; as I said, very thin, with greenish-brown corrosion.

 

[bombgod1]

No real help, but when I was living in germany I found the "bottom of a bottle top" and tossed it into my junk pile. A couple weeks later I found it again in the same junk pile and tried to clean it off just to be sure. Bottle top ended up being a 1795 Austrian coin, so check it out really well because you never know what it will turn into. Good luck

 

[MassSandman]

n/t

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Is it too thin to be a coin?

I think any deeper coin that is badly corroded can ring up near the nickel range, even an old large cent. Could it be closer to 28-29mm? My first guess is that you have a large cent minted between 1808 & 1814. The copper used for thos mintages was of inferior quality and prone to corrosion and quick wear. For that reason they are more scarce than coins minted prior and after 1814.

I have found a few and they are just blank "slugs".

It could also be a colonial or post colonial coin or token