Dug old coin

[dogtx]

Found this under the floor he ripped up in his house House is from 1870-80.
Coins year is 1838 im excited about it, oldest one yet.
I wander if it was used as a button or to replace a toy car wheel or what do you think?

 

[dogtx]

next. Sorry this camera is not that great at close ups.

 

[Penn Digger]

Interesting find.

PD

 

[JOETHECROW]

Rickjj (SickRick) posted a link not too long ago to a website about real old coins, some with holes in them...Way cool find, 1838 !

 

[dogtx]

My friend is renovating his house he told me he does not mind if I dig in the crawl space.
So far I found some marbles spoons forks a rusted up hand gun some fragments of TOC glass
Some bottles from late teens. I'm going to use the sifter see if I can find any more coins.

 

[sandchip]

Wicked cool looking find!

 

[appliedlips]

Cool find, and while I have dug several, holed, large cents I've never seen one through the center.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

Normally coins used as overcoat buttons would have two holes punched.
Hard to say what they used it for but it was a pretty common practice. I have dug a bunch of then.

 

[ironmountain]

looks like a Large Cent:

http://historyunderground.wordpress.com/category/coins/ under the july 22 area of this page.... 1/2-3/4 down.

 

[THE BADGER]

DEFINITELY A LARGE CENT,I HAVE FOUND LOADS OF COINS FROM THIS TIME PERIOD WHILE DIGGING AND MOST ARE TWO HOLES AS THEY WERE USED AS BUTTONS BUT THE SINGLE HOLED ONES WERE USUALLY DONE THAT WAY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE CARRYING THE COINS WERE AFRAID OF LOSING THEM THROUGH HOLES IN THEIR POCKETS SO THEY WERE DRILLED AND THEN THEY WOULD RUN A STRING THROUGH THEM AND TIE AROUND BELT LOOPS OR NECK.THE OTHER REASON FOR THE SINGLE HOLES WAS A KIDS GAME BUT I CANT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS CALLED ,MIGHT BE WHIZZERS OR BUZZER CANT REMEMBER. BADGER