Attention Philadelphian- Part 2

p, refresh my memory.
What should a Regal Hp weigh?

Got it. First thing I'll do when I get home from work tonight @ 11pm PST.

My scale does it all. I'll do grain and gram.

Okay, hold on to your seats! I don't know what I have here.

I weighed the coin and weighed a problem free Connecticut Copper in my collection.
First, the discussed coin:

156.9 grains
10.20 grams

Problem free Connec.

105.1 grains
6.83 grams

By the way, my scale is perfectly calibrated.

I'm going to contact someone at the EAC.
I'm fairly confident this is struck on something foreign.
It's heavy.

Disclaimer: I know absolutely ZILCH about colonials.

With that said, the Palatine immigration from Germany to America was quite large, with over 2100 immigrants settling in the New York/Pennsylvania/New Jersey area in 1709-1711, and there was a second wave of immigrants in 1717. Do any German coins from this time period match the weight of this mystery overstrike?

I also find the French and Indian War (our part in the Seven Years' War) in the present-day Midwest, between 1754 and 1763. The American part of the war began in the Ohio Valley, which--geographically speaking--is a spit's distance from Connecticut. This area was settled by both the French and Spanish. Do we have a weight match in either francs or pesetas?

I could probably keep hunting out other countries who claimed colonies in the present-day US at that time, but I think those were the "big three" most likely to have coinage circulating widely enough for something to get pulled and restruck.

vermontensium,

If you don't find a match there, look in Spanish coins. I know most of the Spanish settlements were in the southwest, but trade routes almost certainly existed and it's not out of the question (if I can get handed a one-baht coin at a cash register in Arizona in 2012 . . . . ). Even if there were no routes from New Mexico to Connecticut, a Spanish settler hands a coin to a French trader who hands it to another French trader who hands it to a Native who hands it to another Native who uses it to buy something from a Scotsman in Ohio . . . . and there you go, Spanish money in the northeast.

Finger crossed...