Late 1820s pocket spill find - 2 Bust Halves and 2 Spanish Silver

Don in SJ

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This morning I wanted to do a hunt around the perimeter area of the homestead I got the 5 coppers at last week but the underbrush is really filling out now so I had to keep a bit closer to the actual homestead, where less underbrush was. I was hunting less than 15 minutes, and had recovered some pewter and brass pieces of unknowns when all of a sudden my XS screamed Silver to me!

I forgot my camera of course, but maybe that was the good luck I needed for this find. To my amazement the first thing I saw out of the hole was a big hunk of silver coin!

I picked it up and saw part of the Bust so I knew I had a Bust Half Dollar, :icon_thumright: I rechecked the hole with the probe and another coin was in there. Dug down the one side a bit and out pops the second Bust Half Dollar, this one completely coated but I knew what it was thanks to seeing the first one.

Now I stood up and rescanned the hole and off to the left side it was indicating yet a third coin! I enlarged the opening and out comes a thin smaller silver, which at first I was hoping to be a bust quarter but knew by the thinness it was going to be a Spanish Real. Just was not sure till I got home and checked but it was a One Real.....

Thinking wow, 3 silver in one hole, that never happened before, in fact Bust Half never happened before, but I did check the hole one more time and got a faint somewhat good coin type reading, gouged out the remaining dirt with my hand and the coin was now in the pile. A small one, a Half Real.
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So 4 Silvers in one hole, a first for me for something so old and so big, I was without a doubt thrilled to see this today. I thought of quitting right away to save the site for another hunt with my son and decided to slowly work my way back to the truck.

Just as I passed the area where my son got his 1794 Large Cent last week, I got a funky possible coin/iron reading. I noticed it was next to a fallen log that I had dug a hole right next to this signal last week and I remember it being a piece of iron pot. But today, maybe because of the wet ground, I heard coin and out pops a copper!


I had no idea what the copper was, I could tell it seen better days, but after cleaning it did show a nice date of 1722 and some of NIA from Brittania, so I knew I had a 1722 King George I Halfpenny. Right next to it was a button like relic, not sure if it is a button that was modified or was used for something else.


Overall, what a great hunt of less than one hour duration, April 2010, without a doubt was a winner for me.

Finds for the day, a very beautiful 1826 Bust Half Dollar
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A very nice 1827 Bust Half Dollar
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A decent 1782 Spanish One Real
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A heavily worn 1784? Spanish Half Real
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Heavily worn and abused 1722 King George I Halfpenny
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And a large possible button modified with two holes after shank sheared off, or perhaps something else :dontknow:
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Don in SJ

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Thanks for the nice comments, I'm still stoked, never expected big old silver, at least not two large ones with the coveted Spanish silver. Anyway, I just remembered the early year Bust coins were larger than others. I found out when I got out two Mylar Half Dollar holders and they were TOO SMALL. Here is a photo I just took of the two Bust with a Walking Liberty sandwiched in-between. There sure is a difference. I do have Dollar sized Mylar holders to temp put them in for protection, at least they fit in the dollar sized holders. :D

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Boy you have some Beauties there. Awesome Finds. Banner
 

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Don...what a hunt. :headbang: You must have been chitlins when you hit that hole.
As said before, see you up top soon.
I want one. :-\
Congrats on the banner.

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Oh my gosh. :icon_thumright: :icon_thumleft: :thumbsup: :coffee2: :coffee2: :laughing9: :laughing9: I don't even know what emoticons I'm hitting ... I'm so flabbergasted. BANNER.
 

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Don in SJ

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Well I wanted to show the edge lettering that is on both Half Dollars, kind of nice, just like the early Large and Half Cents.

FIFTY CENTS OR HALF A DOLLAR - edge lettering

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Lookn4Seated

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Simply amazing! Just one of those pocket spills we all dream of. I think this is definately banner worthy. My vote is in! :thumbsup:
 

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That is simply incredible! :icon_thumright:

I think Iron Patch summed it up best... but my banner vote is in as well. :hello2:
 

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Sweet Halves. I especially like the edge lettering on these coins. I found one (not in nearly a good a condition as either of yours - I think it was exposed to a fire at some point) and there was an error in the edge lettering: "FIFTY CENTS OR LF A DOLLAR" Apparently that was a pretty common error due to the tooling used, but still pretty cool.

Again - nice finds.

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Super Finds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :headbang:
 

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Those halves are freakin' amazing! Congratulations :hello2:
 

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Holy smokes Don ! That is totaly awesome. Congratulations on some very nice looking old silver. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 

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Congrats on the spill and other finds, man those are some beautiful looking coins to say the least, WTG, :headbang:

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Don,
Congrats on an awesome fund...love those Bust Halves.
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