KILLED IT TODAY CUT COIN HELP ID

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

I hunted an old colonial site found 15 flat buttons and this cut coin it hits in the nickel range, I know it's not silver but I'd like to know what it is!! Anyhow thanks in advance!!

 

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[RustyNTX]

n/t

 

[Aarong81]

It is nearly the size of a dime but much thicker. Depending on what metal detector you have, it should show up as silver if it were silver. See if you can determine the original size of the coin by either comparing the round edge or doubling the length plus adding a bit for what was physically cut away in the process. There are lots of Bronze and copper coins it could be. I would guess it is 1700's if cutting up bronze coins was worthwhile. Usually, this was done with precious metal coins and they were weighed when spent unless it matched a 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of a known coin. You could have a pile of silver shavings and spend it if they had scales available. There may be a remote chance of it being gold but it is hard to imagine it tarnishing like that. Gold at that size could show up lower on the VDI scale but it doesn't look like gold at all.

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

It's not a dime the cut coin is as large as a penny actually larger

 

[Aarong81]

"It is nearly the size of a dime but much thicker" In no way is anyone thinking it is a dime.
I know that it's not a dime, but the surface area of the triangle shaped piece is comparable to a dime and should give an accurate VDI reading if it were silver. I also said you would have to double the length to figure out the original size and didn't mean it was a dime. If you had done so, let us know what you figured out besides the fact that it is not a dime. Try posting some information about the size of the coin, not the chopped up and butchered piece of coin. Nobody is going to have specs posted online for a piece of a coin so it would help if we knew how large the original coin would have been. If we knew the size we could narrow down the possible coins that it could be. It's helpful that you let us know that it is not a dime though, someone might have been thinking it was a dime. Also, look at it very closely and see if it is a pizza because, wait for it, it is shaped like a piece of pizza. I hope you don't actually waste time specifying it is not in fact a piece of pizza but either way I guess it would narrow it down a bit more.

In the only picture that includes a size reference of a penny it appears SMALLER than the penny even though it is closer to the camera than the penny. The penny is further from the camera and still looks larger than the piece of pizza shaped, dime sized piece of coin. If this one and only picture with a size reference is not a good example of size then please provide a more accurate picture.

 

[unluckylester]

I would put it on a piece of paper and trace it, then place it next to what you just traced. To find out if it is an eight of a piece of a sixth. also it could give you the dimensions of the coin. then you may be able to google by length, or even wieght if you were to weigh it and find out how many pieces the coin may have had. Looks awesome though.
Les