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Hi I hope you are able to access the two links to images I have pasted below. I dug up a George 3rd coin whilst meat detecting yesterday (assumed a penny). I have searched the internet and the closest I found to the pattern on the obverse was that of a half crown but this coin is copper not silver? Appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you
David Lees
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I've been meat detecting before, though I used much different machinery to get it  |
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New Member
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Well done for spotting the deliberate mistake- this should of course have read metal and not meat- which will explain my hatred of predictive text and the fact that my next signal was a bratwurst &  & |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Hey, it allowed me to make a really bad joke I can't see the pictures, by the way - tried copy and pasting the link. |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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It is a George III half crown, just rather corroded.  to the community, by the way! |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Thank you for your ID of the coin as I said I was a bit confused as I thought that they only came in silver and wasn't sure
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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No problem  Good find! |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Must have been a George 3rd set of fields - within 20
Minutes had found this, a George 3rd penny and a British copper company token from about the same era
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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It could be a contemporary cast forgery - we'd need to see larger, clearer photos. I'm afraid these coins were quite extensively forged in base metal and then given a thin silver wash, which may have worn away after all those years in the soil. A genuine silver coin usually has some silver poking through somewhere.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Definately no silver left on it if it is more contemporary but brings more clarity to my confusion about its denomination - makes sense really- thanks
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I would say definitely a contemporary forgery of a Half Crown. Silver would not corrode that way.
There are collectors for these, but probably not in that bad a condition.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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That's the unfortunate toll of Agricultural fertilisers and years of field ploughing I'm afraid. Modern coins simply won't last that distance in comparison
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Valued Member
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I defer to the superior knowledge of PaddyB and NumisRob |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I agree with Paddy and Rob, a contemporary counterfeit.
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Posted 08/10/2020 12:15 pm
