Colonial Coin Find???!!!!

[metaldetectingtaylor]

Can someone please help with identifying this

 

[markg]

That's nice
Soak it in olive oil and see if it brings the detail out.

 

[metaldetectingtaylor]

thanks, will that ruin it in any way?

 

[Jesse W. McComas]

n/t

 

[LabradorBob]

I advise be VERY CAREFUL if it is a colonial,some of those things are worth a fortune.
LabradorBob

 

[steveholdem]

Check This Site Has Pictures Of colonial coins . http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&va=colonial+coins&fr=slv8-&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=19&ni=18

 

[Dennis 2]

If you clean it, you will loss more detail on it( it's very corroded ). It's a early large cent.... 1870's to 1803. But it also can be a post - colonial issue. Like a 1785 Conn. or VT copper. is there any detail on the back of the coin.

 

[metaldetectingtaylor]

there are no details on the back. from looking at large cent pictures it doesn't match any of the U.S. cents.

 

[dwayne sueno]

looks like a William III halfpenny. 1690's. You may have also noticed that it didn't sound like a large copper. Many of the William III's were made of debased metal.

 

[metaltaylor4]

Does it look like this?

 

[dwayne sueno]

yes, that looks more like it. forget what i said earlier. nice id, metaltaylor.

 

[metaltaylor4]

Thanks Dwayne. This is from 1772! wow my oldest yet. A king George III

 

[Great Republic]

I jus love seeing those old coins rescued. Great find.