🥇 BANNER 8 Reales Club, I just joined

Rick (Nova Scotia)

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Like most of my posts this one starts the same....

Me and ZDD...
started out at 8:30 in hopes of finding something old. The first spot we went to looked good had promise, and was in a fairly good area, etc, but just didn't have it. Dave did get a clock gear there, I never dug a target. Dave got a 90's signal that I checked, and said "could be a 8 reale", turned out to be a brass ring. I said "one of these times it will be an 8 reale".

Next spot, we call "french hill" as Dave got a 1677 french silver there last year, conditions were good better than they had ever been, level, and short grass. I got a signal that was high 90's, but did bounce all the way up to 99 which almost always means junk on my Omega. Not suggesting that I wouldn't dig, because targets were not that plentyful. I dug a plug the depth of a small hand trowel of 4 -5 inches, the pin pointer said target still in there, so I just sifted through the loose dry dirt with my left gloved hand, and out came a BIG round disk. For a second I thought aluminium, because I was expecting JUNK, then I saw Carolus face (as blind as I am) Yeah Babby !

Wicked freekin awesome, I thought, 7 years, my first dollar sized coin, and still on my top ten list.

I wasn't shaking like a lot of people say, but I was at the same time pretty excited, and tried to shout to Dave...he wasn't hearing none of that, with headphones on, so I pretty much ran over to him, mentioning the "ring" he had found earlier. He said did you find another, I said, "well almost" I got him to take off his glove and close his eyes, and dropped it in his hand.

This has been a slow year for sure with the cold lasting so long, and then turning so hot so fast, bla, bla, bla.

Anyway this is a find that is / was still on my top ten list so I am very happy today with what I have found. I didn't even take a camera with me today as it was so hot I didn't want to carry any extra gear, so I had to keep it dirty till home for pictures then a water soak for 5 minutes revealed a pretty nice coin.

Yes we (I) did dig a few square nails, and one pewter button, the nails because of the spot being "nearly" hunted out, and so few targets left, but man am I glad we gave it one more shot.


GOOD LUCK OUT THERE !
Rick
 

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ATpro5

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Beautiful coin. You did a great job on cleaning the dirt off. Did you just blast it under some water?
 

Greylock

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Wow. That's a big old piece of silver buddy. Congrats.
 

GatorBoy

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Wow that must have sounded like a solid slab of aluminum.. Nice!!!
 

Zodiacdiverdave

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Well Rick that coin is a monster. For anyone that doesn't know just how large they are here is a pick of of in my hand when he first showed it to me.
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To me this is a banner find, there are fewer 8Rs posted here then there are gold coins posted. The fact of the matter is that these monsters were just harder to loose then a gold coin so there are fewer of them in the ground.
Awesome find Rick, maybe it will be my turn next.
Banner vote going in.
ZDD
 

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Steve in PA

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That's a nice looker there Rick! A lot of 8 Reales coming out of Canada this year :icon_scratch:. How do you suppose that monster eluded you guys for so long? Some sites save their best for last....glad you went back one more time!
 

Don in SJ

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Rick, congrats on getting the big one! Beautiful coin.............
 

joeyfresh

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Someone on here said they dig those by the shovel full down in Florida so I'm not really impressed........
 

70monte68

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Congrats, sweet find!!!
 

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Rick (Nova Scotia)

Rick (Nova Scotia)

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That's a nice looker there Rick! A lot of 8 Reales coming out of Canada this year :icon_scratch:. How do you suppose that monster eluded you guys for so long? Some sites save their best for last....glad you went back one more time!

Hey Steve...we do not know know... we have been to this spot at least a half dozen times... So it was just a lucky guess.
 

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