Florida welcomes me with an 8 real! More silver still!!!

Scrappy

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I had trip planned for Florida. The wife threatened me something fierce if I brought my detector with me...

Well a week before we left my CTX stopped working and I HAD to bring it to Kellyco for servicing. Soooo while my detector is in Florida I may as well hunt. So I went to the old maps and photographs of New Symrna and found a spot.

At first I was skunked, my one researched spot had failed...then I looked into another area separated by a barber wire fence. Asked the land owner who's land I was detecting and she owned that one too! So off I went and I quickly found cut nails and slate shingle holders. Then a 1910 and 1917 wheat...not bad...


Then I hit a drunks secret spot full of 24oz cans. Some buried, some not... I get a slamming hit, sounded like it was on the surface but the machine said it was 6". Another can?

I dig in...
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Holy crap a reeded edge!!

Low and behold out pops a huge coin, bigger than any one before...


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I didn't much want to hunt after that but kept going. I got nothing for a while, then a barber and some other foreign coin from the 1950's.

All I can say is Wow, just Wow! ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1436314696.117612.jpg
 

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cjon455

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you have got to be freakin kidding me!, you have some sort of strange luck my friend!!

that's an awesome coin!!
good job, now hopefully
the wife isn't too upset!!!
 

david680

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Excellent finds! From the bust on your other foreign coin my instincts say Haiti or Italy.
 

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I hereby volunteer to be your new best friend in Florida- we need to hunt the heck out of that spot, hey there buddy?
 

Bill D. (VA)

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Looks like you and George have decided to start an "8 reales club". I want to join so bad, but guess I'll have to wait for the fall at least. BTW - awesome find!!!!
 

sutphin

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HEY SCRAPPY DOO NICE FINDS AND FASHION STATEMENT TO , LOVE THE CURLY HAIR...
 

Erik in NJ

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Nice old Mexican dollar! BTW is that your wife with the curly blonde hair?? :laughing7:
 

worldtalker

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Quite a find dude..quite a find indeed.:icon_thumleft:

Hope you didn'i get any chiggers from that moss.:laughing7:



GOD Bless

Chris
 

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Scrappy

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Nice old Mexican dollar! BTW is that your wife with the curly blonde hair?? :laughing7:

Quite a find dude..quite a find indeed.:icon_thumleft:

Hope you didn'i get any chiggers from that moss.:laughing7:



GOD Bless

Chris

HEY SCRAPPY DOO NICE FINDS AND FASHION STATEMENT TO , LOVE THE CURLY HAIR...

Ok, about the hair. It was moss from a tree and it did have bugs. Lol. But it made sense during all the excitement. And it was me...not the wife;) People were watching too...they thought I was bat-s@$t crazy! Lol
 

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OMG; what an amazing find and in great shape!!!!! Congratulations on a wonderful find~~:occasion14:
 

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you have got to be freakin kidding me!, you have some sort of strange luck my friend!!

that's an awesome coin!!
good job, now hopefully
the wife isn't too upset!!!

I found the area by taking 8 paces in and 8 paces to the left. I used Abe's rule of 8. Luck had nothing to do with it;)
 

Loco-Digger

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Awesome dig. You were in the zone today. Your instinct, determination and skill really paid off. :notworthy:
 

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Awsome find Steve. When was that town you were in settled?
Oh by the way you look like CAPTAIN CAVE MAN in that pic.
You are probably to young to know who that is???
 

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Scrappy

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Looks like you and George have decided to start an "8 reales club". I want to join so bad, but guess I'll have to wait for the fall at least. BTW - awesome find!!!!

Bill, you're in your own club with all the Spanish silver you've found. Anyway, George has to have his own club. I don't want to be any part of a club that would accept me as a member . Lol
 

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Scrappy.............................. Smittyman

Now I believe they may be related.
 

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