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Message:: [QUOTE="coinman1234, post: 2562126, member: 51208"]Wow! That's a lot! Makes me wish I lived in Europe! Items dating back as far as I can imagine and that coins that seem old in the US are modern there. Almost like finding a wheat penny. Way more people living in Europe in the 1600's through early 1800's than in the US. I know a couple people in England who scrap their crappy condition Roman bronze pieces, I guess that if you find the right spot they can be quite plentiful. I was afraid it was too far gone, just the nagging feeling of wanting to identify it. I have around 30 colonial coppers I have dug and it bugs me that there are a couple that are either blank disks or like the one I posted here, with minimum details. Oh well, I guess it will go back to my dug copper collection. It's annoying because in an mid 1600's town I found a pocket spill of 3 hammered misshapen looking copper coins. I found them around 1/10 of a mile in the woods behind a 1600's Cemetary. One of them has a slight design but not enough to identify. I think they may be Spanish Maravedis, but there is no way to prove it. Oh well, just gotta hope that the next coin I find is in awesome condition.[/QUOTE]