1808 Tavern site gives up Spanish silver

TimmyNY

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Today started off a bit cold. with temps in the 20s. after a meeting of the Rochester club, Johnand I decided to hunt a few areas around Southern Wyoming county.

We decided to start at a recently cut corn field that had a hotel on it in the early 1800s. after locating the owner I went to ask permission. It was the closest Ive come to a rejection yet. He has a friend that detects who wanted to come over and hit the field. but he hadn't showed yet so he let us hunt the front half of the field. after about 2 hours we were wondering whether the hotel was there at all. The only thing we found was a memorial cent.

next we went to get permission to hunt a large potato field near by but the owner wasn't home.

it was getting close to 2:30 so we decided to hit one more place . an old tavern site that we've hunted several times before. this site has given up several draped bust large cents and buttons and has been hit pretty hard. after about 2 hours in the freezing wind with very few signals I finally got a decent signal. with the first shovel out pops this little baby. It is my second half real and by far the better shape. Its a good thing John was there to take the pics. maybe next time will be his turn.

Tim
 

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Gypsy Heart

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Way to go Tim ! What a fantastic find and its in such wonderful shape. Glad you were able to get out and hunt on such a beautiful day!
Congratulations !
 

The Seeker

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Yes it was cold and windy! What a great half reale , that is one of the best looking ones I have seen in quite some time! :) Glad we got out and found some goodies! Well let me re-phrase that comment ........You found the goodies!

But hey you can't find coins everytime out.....i will settle for my cool selection of Pottery shards, iron relics , a strange fossil, a pigs tooth and what I believe is the neck top of some old bottle........!

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Congrats again on a great find!!! WTG

John
 

Bavaria Mike

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Nice looking 1774 Reale, congrats on the nice find! HH, Mike
 

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Nice find Tim !

Congrats !
 

hollowpointred

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great looking 1/2 reale! awesome find!!
 

Ridley

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That's hardcore! Great work.



Ridley
 

EDDE

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the fossil is a brachiopod=clam
killer reale dig!
 

Mona Lisa

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Beautiful coin, Timmy. I bet that felt great when you saw that beauty! Congratulations! :o

Nice picture taking, Seek. ;) Oh...and seek..it looks like you almost have enough shards to cover that bowling ball now. ;D
 

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Awesome find, Timmy. Glad you and Seeker got out today. Windy & cold, you two are diehard MDers.

;) RR
 

tinpan

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Hi tim,awsome find and the research  to even find a hotel in feild from that long a go "amazing" .Do you happen to have a copy of David.H .Burrs  Cartoygraghical Atlas for the state of New york [1829] or one of the other survey maps of the time.As they did put all structures and buildings on the maps.Or did you have another source of info on finding the hotel.Congrats


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Dig This

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Excellent find Tim, hopefully next weekend will be nice and i will go. Detector still down but have Johns. Congrads
 

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Thats a nice find. Way to go!
Mike
 

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