Thick coin-like object

[Kapok]

Found this coin like object near the foundation of an 1870's era barn. I'm pretty sure it's copper. It's very heavy and as you can see from the pictures, much thicker than a coin. there are two small holes that almost penetrate the coin (or have corroded closed). It definitely has some sort of a rim, at least on one side. Any help?

 

[ezra]

Kapok, I believe this is from farming liquid fertilizer or insecticide sprayers that the farmers use . I found about 15 of those at a farm . I hope this helps . Ezra.

 

[Kapok]

Kapok, I believe this is from farming liquid fertilizer or insecticide sprayers that the farmers use . I found about 15 of those at a farm . I hope this helps . Ezra.

Interesting, Ezra. Was it a plug or something? I'm trying to envision how it might have been used with a sprayer.

 

[ezra]

Kapok, I believe the farmer told me that in each spray nozzle these holes in the discs controlled the flow of whatever ever they were spraying . Probably rated at gallons per minute or per hour etc. These are used in the sprayers that farmers tow behind the tractors with like the large booms on each side of the sprayer tank the nozzle assembly. Erza

 

[Kapok]

Thanks, Ezra. I was hoping it was a coin...

 

[flinthunter]

It could be from a spray nozzle but I think it is a little too large for that. The ones we used were only about half the diameter of yours. Since it looks to be about the size of a quarter, I'm leaning towards it being a Half Cent or foreign coin that has had holes punched in it to make a child's whizzer toy. It looks pretty toasted so maybe a couple of boiling peroxide baths might help bring out any detail that might be on it.

 

[Kapok]

Cool! I'll try that.,

 

[brianc577]

Boiling peroxide bath on old coppers? Please explain!

 

[flinthunter]

Boiling peroxide bath on old coppers? Please explain!

Try googling "cleaning copper coins with hydrogen peroxide".

Here are directions and a few comments on a peroxide bath. http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=49931

I wouldn't do this on valuable coins because it could do more harm than good but for those toasted coins that are unreadable it sometimes helps.

 

[glenn3-88]

I have been a farmer since I was born. I am not sure but this looks a lot like an OLD bag cinch.
A long time ago before my time they use to sell stuff especially fertilizer in burlap bags and before
the invention of the hand held bag sewing machine where they used heavy cord to sew up a bag,
they had a period of time that they used a large needle to run around the top of the burlap, run it
through a cinch, tie the cord together and use the cinch to close it. Problem with this scenario is
that when they cinched it, they bent it to hold it in place to keep the bag tightly closed so the contents
would not spill out. In that day, copper was the choice of metals due to it being easy to bend. Thing
about it here is this, "while having the holes cut at an angle as they were in the day", this just looks
to me to be too thick for using in that purpose. But man it looks like one.

 

[Kapok]

Thanks for the info. It'd be great if someone had a picture of one of those grain sack cinches.