I did it! 50 coppers for the year

I never thought I’d be able to say that but today it happened. I went to property next to where I had my 8 copper day a few months ago just knowing there was more there. I worked an area I had only poked around in briefly and my very first signal was a 20-21. It was flipped on edge in the hole and I had a very tough time getting an ID and it turns out to be a really cool coin. It has been through the ringer and it has a bend in it. It had the letters AMERI on one side with a leaf pattern, but the letters were upside down and backwards, and some letters on the other. I had a tough time but I figured it out. After looking at it through a loupe I can make out the letters TER very faintly but that would mean it is a king William which makes sense because it only beeps a 21 out of the hole. The AMERI on the reverse is where someone tried to stamp the reverse of a draped bust large cent onto it. My guess is it was a William that was turned into a crop pickers token. Then who ever had it tried to make it look like a US large cent so they could use it as cash and not just a token. The gouges in it are probably where the farms initials used to be. I absolutely love altered coins especially colonial ones. I dug a few buttons and some garbage and then I got a solid 23 signal. I dug it out and there it was, number 50 for the year. It is in rough shape but there is a harp on the reverse so I’m thinking it is a KG3 Hibernia. When I started this hobby about 5 and a half years ago I never imagined the stuff I would find. I never thought 50 in a year was possible but I found 21 of them in three hunts. I found a few more buttons, one of which I think was made into a washer and two wheats, a 1930 and a 1913. Thanks for looking and I am still on cloud nine about this accomplishment. And who knows maybe 60 is possible with a few months left in 2022.