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Nov 25, 2016, 01:13 PM
#1
 Detect smarter, not harder.
A Coin Spill for the Ages: Spanish Silvers, Large Cents, and a massive Old Silver!
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:https://youtu.be/4HB2nTCY2ho
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:https://youtu.be/BdIHpz5XR6E
Excited now, I swing around the hole and have another hit...a Large Cent! Nice...
https://youtu.be/xpTPq1WOnVc
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: https://youtu.be/Z7qymrmgHMc
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
Last edited by Scrappy; Nov 25, 2016 at 03:46 PM.
"Take the detecta-drama elsewhere - I'm just here to dig!"
Running totals:
Hammered Silvers - 2
Hammered Coppers - 1
Milled Spanish Silver - 14
Transitional US State Coppers - 9
United States Cent/Half cent Coppers - 131
British & Other colonial Coppers - 107
Slick coppers - too painful to talk about
Silver Coins - We’ll over a 1000
Favourite Finds:
1665 1-reale Spanish Cob
Revolutionary War stirrup
1812 2nd Regiment Artillarists pewter button
1695 Willam 3rd Halfpenny in excellent condition
G.W. Inagural Buttons - 6 Point Estoile cuff variety
Love token etched on 1859 seated Dime
1831 Louis Phillippe 1st - 5 Franc
1783 Nova Constelatio, Crosby-3C &. Crosby-1B
1749 Regal King George II Farthing
1776 Counter King George iii
If it ain't at least seated, it aint Sh*t
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:25 PM
#2
Way to go Scrappy!!
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:26 PM
#3
ummmmm.........WOW !
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:26 PM
#4
Outstanding . great finds
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:27 PM
#5
"If I learned anything from this, it's to go with your hunches."
Yes, you go with your hunches, but I'll go with YOUR hunches also. 
Awesome! Simply awesome!! 
"...I've got silver in the stars and gold in the morning sun" - Don Williams
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:30 PM
#6
 Just a 14-year-old boy trying to find some cool stuff in the ground
 Originally Posted by 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: https://youtu.be/4HB2nTCY2ho
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: https://youtu.be/BdIHpz5XR6E
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: https://youtu.be/Z7qymrmgHMc
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.
The last LC: https://youtu.be/xpTPq1WOnVc
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
Wow! Great find! That 5 Franc is in beautiful condition too!
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’"
Turn on metal detector
Sweep the coil slowly
Share on Treasurenet
Check out my Google Docs.
All coin finds-http://tinyurl.com/h3kops2
Achievements/bucket list-http://tinyurl.com/zv93j25
God Bless!
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:34 PM
#7
 Detect smarter, not harder.
 Originally Posted by Jeff H
ummmmm.........WOW ! 
Yep, that's about what I said. Well, almost.
"Take the detecta-drama elsewhere - I'm just here to dig!"
Running totals:
Hammered Silvers - 2
Hammered Coppers - 1
Milled Spanish Silver - 14
Transitional US State Coppers - 9
United States Cent/Half cent Coppers - 131
British & Other colonial Coppers - 107
Slick coppers - too painful to talk about
Silver Coins - We’ll over a 1000
Favourite Finds:
1665 1-reale Spanish Cob
Revolutionary War stirrup
1812 2nd Regiment Artillarists pewter button
1695 Willam 3rd Halfpenny in excellent condition
G.W. Inagural Buttons - 6 Point Estoile cuff variety
Love token etched on 1859 seated Dime
1831 Louis Phillippe 1st - 5 Franc
1783 Nova Constelatio, Crosby-3C &. Crosby-1B
1749 Regal King George II Farthing
1776 Counter King George iii
If it ain't at least seated, it aint Sh*t
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:35 PM
#8
 Detect smarter, not harder.
 Originally Posted by kcm
"If I learned anything from this, it's to go with your hunches."
Yes, you go with your hunches, but I'll go with YOUR hunches also.
Awesome! Simply awesome!!  
Yes, but you guys don't see all the times my hunches are wrong. Lol
"Take the detecta-drama elsewhere - I'm just here to dig!"
Running totals:
Hammered Silvers - 2
Hammered Coppers - 1
Milled Spanish Silver - 14
Transitional US State Coppers - 9
United States Cent/Half cent Coppers - 131
British & Other colonial Coppers - 107
Slick coppers - too painful to talk about
Silver Coins - We’ll over a 1000
Favourite Finds:
1665 1-reale Spanish Cob
Revolutionary War stirrup
1812 2nd Regiment Artillarists pewter button
1695 Willam 3rd Halfpenny in excellent condition
G.W. Inagural Buttons - 6 Point Estoile cuff variety
Love token etched on 1859 seated Dime
1831 Louis Phillippe 1st - 5 Franc
1783 Nova Constelatio, Crosby-3C &. Crosby-1B
1749 Regal King George II Farthing
1776 Counter King George iii
If it ain't at least seated, it aint Sh*t
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:42 PM
#9
REV WAR HUNTER
Your day quickly turned around...Sometimes the hunches don't turn out but sometimes they do! Congrats
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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Nov 25, 2016, 01:43 PM
#10
 Originally Posted by Scrappy
If I learned anything from this, it's to go with your hunches. Cross your fingers and get out there and hunt.
I learned: Go to Scrappy's house for Thanksgiving, but make sure to follow him if he sneaks out to go detecting.
Nice finds.
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Nov 25, 2016, 02:09 PM
#11
Wow, that's the once in a life time day... good for you, all the hours of hunting, paid off
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Nov 25, 2016, 02:09 PM
#12
 Detect smarter, not harder.
 Originally Posted by The Patriot
Your day quickly turned around...Sometimes the hunches don't turn out but sometimes they do! Congrats
Yes, I'm probably at 10% for hunches. But when the work out, yep, it can be great!
Thanks for looking bud.
"Take the detecta-drama elsewhere - I'm just here to dig!"
Running totals:
Hammered Silvers - 2
Hammered Coppers - 1
Milled Spanish Silver - 14
Transitional US State Coppers - 9
United States Cent/Half cent Coppers - 131
British & Other colonial Coppers - 107
Slick coppers - too painful to talk about
Silver Coins - We’ll over a 1000
Favourite Finds:
1665 1-reale Spanish Cob
Revolutionary War stirrup
1812 2nd Regiment Artillarists pewter button
1695 Willam 3rd Halfpenny in excellent condition
G.W. Inagural Buttons - 6 Point Estoile cuff variety
Love token etched on 1859 seated Dime
1831 Louis Phillippe 1st - 5 Franc
1783 Nova Constelatio, Crosby-3C &. Crosby-1B
1749 Regal King George II Farthing
1776 Counter King George iii
If it ain't at least seated, it aint Sh*t
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Nov 25, 2016, 02:12 PM
#13
Unbelievable! That's a Banner spill if ever there was one. Huge congrats!
http://www.youtube.com/c/MrDigger
Oldest coin: 1693 William & Mary halfpenny
Oldest silver: 1751 Fernando VI One Reale (Madrid)
Oldest US coin: 1787 Mass State Copper
Oldest US silver: 1821 Capped Bust Dime
Best spill: 1 Barber Qtr, 4 seated dimes, 1 Barber dime, 1 V nickle
Favorite Find: 1806 Carolus IIII 8 Reales
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Nov 25, 2016, 02:15 PM
#14
 Treasure...life’s little moments!
Congratulations on a fantastic hunt and great finds! WTG H Digs
“I don’t always VDI, but when I do...I prefer White’s XLT. Dig wisely my friend.”
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Nov 25, 2016, 02:17 PM
#15
 Coin licker
Congrats, bramble brother!
I love this hobby so much, now I'm a coin licker! 
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