🥇 BANNER A Coin Spill for the Ages: Spanish Silvers, Large Cents, and a massive Old Silver!

[Scrappy]

The day started at sunrise with me hiking through the dark woods. You see, I snuck out at 6am and before any of my 15 Thanksgiving guests awoke. After a 3/4 mile hike I arrived at my target site. It turned out to be a complete bust full of beer cans and illegal dumping.

So instead of going home I hiked to a spot about a half Mile away I've had my eye on for quite some time. It had great features; next to a good river, had high ground, and fertile soil. There was no record of a home existing there according to 1841 and later maps, so this was a complete gut hunch. Upon arriving I find an indentation at the high ground, which turned out to be a cellar hole. It was hidden as you can see...



Here's the well...


I turned on the machine and I hear iron, dig a few and find hand wrought nails. Here's a hand-wrought rose head nail which were used up to about 1800. Bingo! Great sign...



Without much luck with non-ferrous targets, I work my way around to the front, and then to the other side. I get a jumpy signal that was double hitting, and thought I had surface trash. I dig it and out pops a 1800 Spanish 1-real!





A video:

I'm quite excited and after a 10 minute intermission I rescan and find another target...and out comes a 1/2 reale. Wow!


A video:

Excited now, I swing around the hole and have another hit...a Large Cent! Nice...



Next hit brings the biggest surprise of them all. It was choppy and grunting, but a high was coming through. I open it up and almost fall right over...



A crazy video:

Staring back at me was what looked like a Spanish 8-real! I pull it out and low and behold it's an equally large French coin: a King Phillip 5-Franc monster silver!!!! The size of this coin is amazing - about the size of a Spanish 8. I'm still shocked when I look at the coin.


Wow. If this isn't what dreams are made of I don't know what is...

A minute or two later I dig yet another large cent and this ended my best coin spill ever.




If I learned anything from this, it's to go with your hunches. Cross your fingers and get out there and hunt.



Good luck and good hunts everyone!



Happy belated Thanksgiving!
Steve

 

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[mirage83]

Helluva great hunt Scrappy. That's one you're not real likely to best unless you find a jar full of Eagles or Double Eagles.

 

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[Scrappy]

I learned: Go to Scrappy's house for Thanksgiving, but make sure to follow him if he sneaks out to go detecting.

Nice finds.

Lol. You have no idea how close to the truth that is for me. Cheers!

 

[Scrappy]

Unbelievable! That's a Banner spill if ever there was one. Huge congrats!

Thanks for the Banner nod, and the congrats.

Cheers

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Dang it Scrappy, there you go having me vote Banner again!

Congratulations!

 

[treblehunter]

I just watched your video, could you imagine some hunter walking up on that scene, some guy hunched over a hole in the ground scrambling around flailing a shovel that resembles a vicious weapon, all the while talking to himself. Lol your excitement was contagious.

 

[miboje]

Wow! That's SWEET! Congrats!

 

[Tradertom]

What an awesome hunt. Certainly worth following your hunch.

 

[Calabash Digger]

all I can say is wow ! your right about going with your gut feelings it pays off sometimes in your case it was a big payoff!

 

[flatbutton]

Damn nice!

 

[weregolf]

A perfect day man!

 

[Scrappy]

Congratulations on a fantastic hunt and great finds! WTG H Digs

Thx. I wouldn't have guessed this outcome after the terrible first half of my hunt. The beauty of this hobby is anything can happen.

 

[Scrappy]

Congrats, bramble brother!

Thanks Brad. We're both lucky to live in a State where we have access to such remarkable finds. I loved that Spanish find of yours today as well!

 

[ironhorse]

Winner winner turkey dinner!
That's a post!
Congratulations on those recoveries ,your gut instinct gets a shout out too!

 

[vince76]

Congrats on the silver spill. Great job.

 

[Scrappy]

Nice finds, Steve. I bet there is more at that location. keep pounding it.

Thx. The area is pretty large with no boundaries. I would call it 2-3 acres so there must be a little more.

 

[romeo-1]

Holy crap...epic!!!

 

[toasted]

Epic spill. All Spanish and French silver coins were the only foreign legal tender silver coins in the US up until the civil war. See lots of worn out Spanish that were in circulation for a long time but the 5 Franc was only legal tender French silver after 1834 I believe. I dont recall seeing much French silver posted here either

 

[Army of 1]

Great day out scrappy , congrats ,, cheers mick

 

[Scrappy]

I'm flabbergasted! Haha

I don't know if people watched my video, but I sounded like a flabbergasted insane man. For me, it was one of my most exciting finds ever. Cheers and thanks for looking bud

 

[Scrappy]

Dayuum, those are some great coins!

You said that the 5 Francs silver was a bad signal? What was it ringing up as?

Thx man. The signal sounded terrible. It was a weak high surrounded and chopped up with iron. I was expecting, maybe, something small. I pulled iron out of the hole after.

That said, I cringe to think what I miss at times.