Anyone find anything really old?

[Bilko]

Just wondering...

 

[Goes4ever]

like how old? in my area of ohio I am lucky to get finds from the 1800s

 

[Nick A]

Yeah, what's really old? And from where? In the USA, Spanish silver? Copper culture Native American artifacts? Large cents? All have been found. In Europe and the rest of the world, mush older finds.

 

[Bilko]

I meant in America pre 1700. I presume there was a Bronze age there?

 

[Goes4ever]

My oldest items have been US large cents, and a capped bust dime, early 1800s

 

[etracjoe]

My oldest coin was a late 1600's Portuguese 30 reis? It was counter struck in the early 1800's. Found in Long Island Ny on pasture land during the first hunt with the Artifact Detecting Team. Oldest American coin was a 1798 large cent found in a local pounded park. Oldest silver is a 1785 spanish. Oldest relic I would say is a "batwing" style buckle date unknown. The Etrac is the best detector on the market today, and this is proof to that considering I do not hunt often and when I do it is usually short hunts. This is also all from my first year metal detecting ever. HH Joe

 

[Steve O]

Last fall I dug my oldest coin to date, a 1696 silver English Shilling. Came from a farm in SE Pennsylvania. The original part of the farm house was built in 1730. Also from that property a Jersey Copper and a Virginia Copper along with some large cents. It's 85 acres, so I'll be there a while.

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

The oldest thing that I have found was a Bullet Mold and Copper Pot from the Revolutionary War (1772 - 1776) period. The Scissor Type Mold was found sitting inside the pot.
It was about 8 - 10 inches deep.

 

[Bilko]

Nice finds! You done any research on the finds and why they were lost there?

Interesting on the 1696 english shilling. I detect in a village in England where William Penn went to school

Re

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn

William Penn(October 14, 1644

 

[AVXVA]

I meant in America pre 1700. I presume there was a Bronze age there?

Pre-Columbus North Americans never developed metal technology beyond a cold-hammered copper nugget technology that was not widespread. Pure copper nuggets from up-state Michigan were traded during Mississippian times (1050 AD - 1450 AD) and cold-hammered into sheets which were then pressed into various shapes and patterns. A few cold-hammered projectile points and knives have been recovered from the middle Woodland.. (~2,000 b.p.)

Native North Americans were quite happy to be (and remain) in the terminal Neolithic, which is why the lithic (stone) artifacts in North America are so diverse, common and stunning. Beyond the copper technology already described, there was no metal technology whatsoever in North America during prehistoric times.

In South America, the situation was a quite different with gold and silver being hammered and smelted by Incan goldsmiths and poured into molds using the Lost Wax technique--extraordinary objects being created in the process.

Bronc

 

[dasho]

Worn 1821 large cent at a farm in SW MO...&, for here, that's pretty old...

 

[dasho]

Oh ya....& non-metal...lots of arrowheads & other stone Native American artifacts from the 600 to 3,000 plus year-old range...
stuff from the fields & creek banks by sight.....
also...pretty cool around here when you dig up a piece of junk & there's an arrowhead in the plug too!

 

[detectorfreak74]

Here in Fillmore UT. I found a witch hat pewter silver plated button from the 1500s when the Spanish came through this area and enslaved the local Indians for mining hematite and gold and salt the entrance to the cave would be just large enough for one body to enter and exit that way the spanish could spear anyone trying to escape . theirs lots of old mines around here mostly rare earth like platinum

 

[Bell-Two]

My oldest coin finds are a 1820 and a 1828 Large Cent from old farm site. Here is the 1820.

 

[Aaron]

Found a Rich Colour button era 1820-1840 in my old pounded park last fall.
Aaron

 

[Bilko]

very interesting! any photo of the button from the 1500s, please?

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

The oldest thing I've found - that I can actually date - is a 1724 King George 1st. Half Penny.
Found this coin near a cellar hole in the woods in Maine.

 

[cosmic]

Phoenician 300 BC found in small town park Illinois...

 

[LabradorBob]

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