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Help with dating part of a toy gun

ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 246 ✭✭✭
edited September 3, 2023 11:08AM in Metal Detecting

Dug this barrel of a toy gun this morning looking to find when they were manufactured also found the half of what I believe is a coin.

Only markings on gun say Jacksonville Texas USA

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cast white metal gun is probably post WW2. Gonna soak that half coin? Good luck. Peace Roy

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  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 3,910 ✭✭✭✭

    Jacksonville Texas means that it was made by Nichols, 1955 or later.

  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 246 ✭✭✭

    @Bayard1908 said:
    Jacksonville Texas means that it was made by Nichols, 1955 or later.

    Thank you. I stumbled on that dig site by accident, but will definitely give it another shot.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 26,798 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Found a few coppers like that. Never did figure out what they were 🙁

  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 246 ✭✭✭

    @johnny9434 said:
    Found a few coppers like that. Never did figure out what they were 🙁

    I found 6 or 7 large cents but all were intact and able to read the date, this one all I can see is part of the word liberty

  • ApplejacksApplejacks Posts: 40 ✭

    @Bayard1908 said:
    Jacksonville Texas means that it was made by Nichols, 1955 or later.

    This

  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Conshyboy said:

    @johnny9434 said:
    Found a few coppers like that. Never did figure out what they were 🙁

    I found 6 or 7 large cents but all were intact and able to read the date, this one all I can see is part of the word liberty

    Looks just like the half coin found on Oak Island. Apparently it was made that way?!

  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 246 ✭✭✭

    @Applejacks said:

    @Bayard1908 said:
    Jacksonville Texas means that it was made by Nichols, 1955 or later.

    This

    ?

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