Wow!! I Finally Dig a Silver Coin From the 1700s!!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Wow!! I Finally Dig a Silver Coin From the 1700's!!

After all these years of metal detecting I finally dug a silver coin from the 1700's! It's a 1748 Spanish Real! I stared hunting this morning at 9am and didn't find the Real until 5:30 pm! It would be my only silver coin for the day, but I'll take it. This is my first Spanish Real! The Real was only about 3 inches deep in another one of our common gopher infested areas. There was quite a lot of gopher activity around the coin, they may have brought it up. Also dug 1 wheatie and a strange looking medallion.
So I'm stoked about the Real!!

 

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[coinman123]

Congrats on the colonial silver, I still have to make that milestone. I had to buy my first reale coin! I hope you find more in 2015, good luck.

Coinman123,

 

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[scaupus]

very nicely done post. great coin. i can't believe you were swinging the coil so many hours; awesome resolve. 5 hours seems to be my natural limit, and that much only very rarely.

 

[SurgTech57]

Seeing all these different finds from everyone just makes me antsy for the snow to thaw and my second season to begin. But in the mean time I'm reading and learning more from all the great post here on Tnet especially learning pin pointing from great post from those with PI machines a special thanks goes out to Casper in that dept. Again thanks to all.

 

[BLINGfromtheSWING]

Great find!! Gotta feel good to break that Barrier! Im still trying to break into the 1700s. Thanks for sharing!

 

[rodarian]

Just beautiful. WTG!