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Hey Nancy this is chris from UofL
I don't have any examples of bent coins, but I use to do a lot of target
practice and sometimes we would stick coins on a target just to see if we
would hit them most of the time you cant even see them, but if you got lucky
and hit one it was very distinguishable by the mushroom effect of the coin
all depending on cal. of course musket cal. are quit large as far as tossing
and hitting them that would be a trick that would be a site to see espically
with blackpowder guns.
>From: Nancy O'Malley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: pierced coins, buttons and another twist
>Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:02:31 -0500
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>I have two sites that yielded pierced buttons or coins--both of them late
>18th century pioneer stations in Kentucky. Daniel Boone's Station near
>Lexington, Kentucky, yielded a very worn English large cent with an image
>of King George II and a date of either 1741 or 1747. It has a crudely
>drilled hole near its edge and is very similar in appearance to ones posted
>by Carl Steen. This site was occupied from 1779 until approximately the
>1840s. The other site is Hugh McGary's Station near Harrodsburg, Kentucky
>that was occupied from 1779 to 1788 with little or no residential
>occupation postdating McGary's stay there (just typical agricultural
>activities). I recovered a button that had a large hole in its center where
>the eyelet formerly was. The button is 1 inch in diameter and the hole is
>3/8 by 1/4 inch in size so the hole constitutes about 9% of the area of the
>button.
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>While these are interesting examples, I recovered two other artifacts from
>McGary's Station that intrigue me. One is a large brass button with an
>eyelet--probably late 18th century--that has been bent, not quite in half,
>but enough that it looks like it was intentional. The other is a 1919
>Lincoln penny that also is bent.
>Any ideas concerning bent buttons and coins? It was suggested to me that
>they might have been used for target practice by someone visiting the
>site--I guess by tossing them up into the air and shooting at them which
>seems a little far-fetched to me, but maybe possible. Any suggestions will
>be appreciated.
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