I found this puppy same area and the 1797 biggie but i can't find it in any books. I know it's not american but thats bout it. Wonderin what the time frame is, it has a shield on the back with a crown on top, doesn't look very well in the pics, can't find a date but not sure where to look for it. You east coast guys probly throw these uglies away, lol. thanks,
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Got one for ya Bill L...
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That's really not "an ugly" at all. Wanna see ugly I gut a 100 much worse ones from the fertilized fields that just look like flaking discs...no trace of a head at all 
Don is the colonial coin expert, but I have found one of the same "coppers" I'm pretty sure. It's in worse shape as yours overall, but I can see the "shield side" better. I had it ID'ed by a colonial coin guy & I have to look at home to be certain, but I think it's a French Copper. The shield should have the 3 "Flur de' lis" (sp?) thingys under the crown. I believe the date was split in half on each side of the crown & mine was 17-something. Would have been spent & accepted in the colonies like any copper or large cent.
I'm "working" now....(or getting pd. for whatever I'm not doing)
So, I'll make a note to look at mine later & let you know exactly what it is & maybe post mine to see if we have a match 
To me the reason these foreign coppers are very cool is because I think it's quite interesting as these passed in the colonies because the US didn't have a mint yet (Or was just getting started). So, it makes ya wonder what boat these came over on, etc?? In fact I have begun making a "Colonial Coin Examples" display case. It features decent examples of all the different "coppers" I have dug & that were accepted coinage. Foreign coppers, states, hard times tokens, etc... I have found Russian coppers, Canada, Italian, French, Haiti.....
The Haiti one is a cool piece of history concerning a shipping trade from here to the Carribean....
Don is the colonial coin expert, but I have found one of the same "coppers" I'm pretty sure. It's in worse shape as yours overall, but I can see the "shield side" better. I had it ID'ed by a colonial coin guy & I have to look at home to be certain, but I think it's a French Copper. The shield should have the 3 "Flur de' lis" (sp?) thingys under the crown. I believe the date was split in half on each side of the crown & mine was 17-something. Would have been spent & accepted in the colonies like any copper or large cent.
I'm "working" now....(or getting pd. for whatever I'm not doing)
So, I'll make a note to look at mine later & let you know exactly what it is & maybe post mine to see if we have a match To me the reason these foreign coppers are very cool is because I think it's quite interesting as these passed in the colonies because the US didn't have a mint yet (Or was just getting started). So, it makes ya wonder what boat these came over on, etc?? In fact I have begun making a "Colonial Coin Examples" display case. It features decent examples of all the different "coppers" I have dug & that were accepted coinage. Foreign coppers, states, hard times tokens, etc... I have found Russian coppers, Canada, Italian, French, Haiti.....
The Haiti one is a cool piece of history concerning a shipping trade from here to the Carribean....
Hawkeye Jim
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Fantastic Find there - WTG - Hawkeye Jim.
Hawkeye Jim
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Boy - that's one "BIG" advantage you east coasters have: "more history" to work with - it's pretty rare if someone even finds a large cent here in the midwest. Hawkeye Jim.
,Just was wondering the time frame, i figured you or some others on this forum has dug a few like it. thanks,,,
