One of my sons (Dustin the older ginger) works in "demolition" (ripping down old houses and trailers mostly) Weeeeelll.......... he found these under the front door threshold of the house he was working on in Mass.. he has put them in the mail to me today (from Mass so with luck will be here monday if not wednesday) Anyhooo onto the coins... he says he hasn't so much as "dusted" them off (he knows better) here are the 3 coins... 2 coppers I have Id'd as 1 a matron head Large cent.. 2 I'm pretty sure is Conn colonial copper The 3rd coin appears to be pewter and I'm afraid to make a call until it's in hand and had a bath in warm demineralized water I'll say nothing else about this one yet other then I'm dieing to get it in hand
@mrweaseluv. Cool finds!! I bet you that they were left there by the carpenter that built the house. A common practice in the 1800's anyways. I see a matron head, Colonial CT. Copper, and you said pewter? Maybe a button??
it's the same size as the coppers so would be one hell of a big button... also appears to have lettering on both sides so thinking coin or medal of some type...
Those are a nifty find. Definitely a Large Cent and from what I can tell through the debris it’s a Colonial coin. The last one I feel is a coin but too much debris. To me it looks like letters on both sides. Once you receive them and get them cleaned up a little please repost.
You are lucky, as in some areas, the coins were nailed to the doorway as a way to keep out bad luck or invisible scary things like the plague and influenza. Jim
not too worried about the coppers... I've done so so many now, but you can bet I'll be exceptionaly careful with the pewter as it will be the 1st time I attempt any conservation on one Oh and while I know of quite a few pewter "medals" from that era I can only think of 2 pewter coins from that time frame... the RI token was made in pewter as well as copper and the continental currency $1 was also (fugio) so i expect to end up with some "eat at joe's" business card/token (I know my luck all to well)
