another first out of same field

[mattockman]

Thanks TF...Now all I have to do is find a furgio and a Pinetree shilling ....hahaha....you never know....

 

[mattockman]

Thanks King....too bad winter is coming...oh well...something to look forward to in the spring.

 

[Welsh Neil]

Somebodies probably already replied by now, but to save me going through the list - thats an Irish Penny of George 1st - House of Hanover 1714-1727. Nice condition - don't over clean it as they are normally blank when I find them!

Great find and would have belonged to one of your earliest settler - congratulations!

If you have a chance have a look at my site www.DetectingWales.com for similar finds from Wales.

All the best

Diolch yn fawr

Welsh Neil

 

[mattockman]

Hi, thanks....I did get a link from someone and it did say what you said...but it only said they were minted 1722-1724....I wish I had a better link....it's ok but a little vaige....I will check out that site and see what you got for flat disc's...hehehe....thanks...later!

 

[Don in SJ]

Wood's was authorized to mint Half Penny's and Farthings and he did in 1722-1724, he had hoped they would make him a great profit in Ireland and the Colonies, but they were not accepted in Ireland and most ended up in the colonies.

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Hibernia.intro.html

In the article Dr Mossman states that they perhaps did not circulate too much in the colonies, well, since he wrote that, he might now be changing his mind thanks to inputs from detectorists reporting their finds to him, and they have now been found from New Brunswick to South Carolina, so perhaps they did circulate rather freely.

Don

 

[BlackX]

Neil, as Don said, I thought they had mainly been shipped to the U.S. Did Wales get a fair lot of them?

Nice find, Doug!

 

[Great Republic]

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