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colonial/british coin question

I'll ask this on the liteside and darkside forum:

Has anybody heard of a practice in the American Colonies where British farthings and halfpennies were
re-stamped (NOT incused) with a "1776" date, I guess as some kind of show of loyalty to independence??

It seems like I faintly heard about this once-- then again, I maybe I just thought I did.

Reason I ask is, was cleaning off some worn out dug coppers (pretty much all British) supposedly dug at a Virginia site. I did some olive oil cleaning on one super worn/dirty old farthing, mainly so i could tell if if it was a George II or Charles II farthing. To my surprise, a very faint but
discnernable (and kinda big) ".776" shows up about a third up the face of the coin in big numberals. The first and third numerals aren't clear
but it does kinda look like at least a ".776". Then again, maybe its all a trick of the eyes.
Tried to scan it, the "numerals" don't pick up.

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