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Tokens?? Don-NJ any ideas?

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I found these 2 small coppers/tokens? on Sunday at the site we have been pounding. They rang up like a button...mid tones & farthing sized things. One has lots of small writing on one side & looks to be drilled. Other side looks like the lady sitting in a way <img src="/metal/html/shrug.gif" border=0 width=37 height=15 alt=":shrug"> The other small coin is probably a foreign copper. I see a date of 1825 with a big "W". Looks like a crown over the W & it sorta looks like a Swedish Skilling I found a while back....
I tried discriminating my discrimination so I guess that why I turned up the token with the hole <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
The foil should work decent on both of those coins for bringing out the detail and lettering. Just use your thumb or finger to rub the foil on the coin, just make sure it doesn't slip while doing it.
Sometimes it is better to read the foil before separting from the coin and sometimes taking a non flash photo of the foil impression really helps in IDing the lettering and numbers.........
Regardless, both are cool finds for sure.
 
Not even close! Man you scored some great lookers as usual. Please post 'em over here if you could so we can all drool <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b">
We have alotta mill sites here, but I've never found any coins there. So your finds are great inspiration <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
But I have no doubt the Excel would have found them also. Location, location, location and detector experience are the main ingrediants in getting many of my finds.
If you want I can post the pics.....
D
 
because many of us on here are "banned for life" & didn't see your nice coins yet & as you said, any Fisher wouldda "Gut 'R Dun"! <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
The three coins were found within 50 feet of each other last Monday at an old sawmill site. The same area last year gave up a beautiful 1805 Half Cent and many years ago my son got a nice 1780 Spanish Half Reale in the same area.
Don
 
That's what I really wanted to see! I don't have any nice looking LC's of that style head series. Maybe this season <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
So, could you give us some hints as to what the site looks like & where the coins turned up? Near a mill foundation or away from it? The nearby mills in our area have either been hunted hard already, or seemed so iron/junk loaded that we moved on. We usualy look for the nearby mill owners house instead. But, many of the mills I wrote off because I had a 1266x at the time. An Excel or C$ should be able to pick through that iron trash.......
 
In our area lots of woods and old roads from the 18th Century and along almost every decent stream there usually was a sawmill or gristmill. Our area was also a big Iron Furnace/Forge area in the late 1700's to early 1800's, so we have quite a few "ghost towns" in the woods. Most workers lived in the middle of nowhere along the old roads, but usually within an hours walk to the millsites. I always look for water first off, then a high rise or a bend in the road, especially at a high rise.
At sites themselves, I would say the majority of the finds come from no particular area, but most of the time they are relatively close together in relation to the size of the site. The sawmill site where I found these coins, was on a high bank, over looking a nice flowing stream that had a dam breast breached maybe 200 hundred years ago. The coins and buttons were all in the same area anywhere from 20 -50 feet from where a structure was located.
I always try to imagine where people would gather at worksites for taking a break, laying down to take a nice drink or nap.
One thing that I have always wondered about though, is why I seldom find Colonials in the same hole. I know when I was a kid and lost money, I would lose it all in one spot from a hole in the pants <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Don
 
in a way, so I'll pay more attention to the mills from now on <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
I have only found 2 Colonials in the same hole once (& it was probably a rich guy cause it was a 2 Reales & a Largie:) My theory has always been that it was such a major loss...to lose even 1 coin then. Heck, that 1813 LC could have been someones pay for the week? <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
I'm surprised I'm still able to get in <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
I have a picture of me hanging out with a "head minion". I would say I'm pretty much "bullet proof" <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
Or wait, they spell it "Boolit" over there <img src="/metal/html/razz.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":razz">
GIT R DUN!
 
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