According to this Ebay ad the "8" counterstamp puts it at around 1652. Need a pile of them to "salt" your treasure site with ? They seem to sell for $10-$20 each individually. Treasure of 110 Spanish Colonial Maravedis | eBay Finding mid 1600s Spanish coins up there proves nothing. I'm sure there were several shipwrecks along and on the coast during those years. So as of now they have spent several million dollars and found ONE $20 coin. Is Todd Hoffman running that operation ?
I think they need to check the rocks they found with the MD ! They lost the signal after they removed the rocks .
This is what I thought as well. The pictures I was finding when Googling the coin last night showed cobs like your picture yet the coin they "found" war perfectly round. One of the brothers gave it a spin on the table at the end of the show. I found no later round coins doing my search that had that same "8" stamp. I'm not sure the entire show is faked since that island surely cost a pretty penny to purchase but I do suspect the finding of the coin when they were ready to give up was so we all tune in next year for "season 2"..I find it curious they wouldn't give a Close up
even if it was a real Spanish coin, and dug there it doesn't prove much.
other then someone dropped or chucked it in the swamp.
if real & not a Fantasy Piece, would look something like this depending on date
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Spain. Phillip IV of Spain. AE 8 Maravedis (cob coin) 1652. AVF
Cool find though even if it's a recent pub token for an 8 Cent shot.
I thought these guys were Treasure Hunters Though ? Not Spook hunters
acting like signals disappearing was Hocus-Pocus
we all know if you break a Halo or change position of a Flat object, or piece of wire,
it will disappear at least for awhile.
Signals disappearing are not spooks moving things around
all the B.S. aside, I wish I could be there
the Swamp diving reminded me of Sweet Arrow Lake Mud Hunting 15 Years ago
..... Good Times
What I noticed was that when they threw the muck off to the side they never checked it with their detector. Pretty basic procedure for any of us. If your target suddenly "disappears" from the hole maybe it's not in the hole anymore ? just a thought... lolIt just enough to keep the "High" and plunge them all in. People do find Spanish coins on the east coast, we even see them listed here on Tnet. I looked for one of these, "pieces of 8", that isn't really a piece of 8 because its not silver...but it has an 8 on it.
That eBay auction is interesting, but I noticed the seller is in Spain. They obviously are not THAT rare.
Still its interesting, 150 years of digging and this is the first coin found that dates to the presumed era. The depth is hard to judge they were ripping up the bottom and throwing muck around, but the detectorist found it, presumably, right next to one of the plywood boards they had laid out and not very deep. No way to know if that was the exact moment he found it or if it was edited for television.
I will note that either before or after the show there wasn't the disclaimer statement about the validity of what you see as on other shows.
