My First One Reale! 1600's Farm FINALLY Gives up old Spanish Silver!

[Shakakka]

10th time's the charm

Been hunting the hell out of this old 1670's farmstead. Large cents, old British farthings, even some amazing buttons... but so far (outside of a 1952 Washington quarter) NO SILVER!

That is... until today!

When this thing popped out of the hole I laid flat on the ground for a half minute just staring at the sky...



It's a One Reale, no? At least I think it is. I've never seen one in person, only watched other people find them on YouTube...



I don't know anything about where it was mined, or minted or assayer's marks so if anyone has that info please feel free to enlighten me. I'm just totally psyched!

Here are some more pics of other stuff I gathered, including what I think is my first musketball. Please tell me it's a musketball? Because the guy who gave permission to hunt the site said "all I want is a musketball, if you find one" and it would be AWESOME to finally get one for him. I know you need scale for something like this, so I did the ruler thing. Looks like 17mm(?)



Also can't tell if that was a gauge or a pocketwatch. I'm leaning toward gauge.

Happy Hunting!

 

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[Relicific]

Awesome coin
Congrats

 

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[hogge]

Tough finding those little suckers....ain't it?😄

 

[Patriot Relics]

Congrats on the 1R, hopefully the first of many

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's a very special recovery. You done good! Big Congrats! I've only ever found one real...I will never forget that day or that location. What a feeling.

 

[hunting deer]

I've found two half's but nothing bigger. Congrats!

 

[port ewen ace]

well, HELLO, Freddy awesome condition on that____________blows away my Chuckie IIII 1794 1 Real this week

 

[pepperj]

One fine looking silver! Huge congrats on your first and the musket ball.

 

[Louisiana Ken]

Nice!!!!!! Great find!!!!!

 

[Kurios1]

Congrats on your first Spanish silver coin. If I ever find one I can only imagine doing something similar to what you did. Flat out on my back gazing into the sky. Wow! Nice you got a musket ball for the property owner. I hope you can begin gathering up some more lead for the owner and silver for yourself!

 

[skarmajunga]

Congrats on the sweet silver

 

[Diggin Dude]

OH MY!!! What a awesome find!!!!! True bucket lister, and Banner in my opinion. You don't see a lot of Pistareens found! Great piece of coin history.

Other finds are also nice. Well done!!! Congrats and HH

 

[Underwonder]

Oh that is an exceptional feature find! My head would be "REAL"ing LOL...and the property owner must be thrilled with he musket ball! Win-win for all. Thanks for sharing!

 

[CRUSADER]

 

[RVRoamer73]

Man that is a Sweet find.....the old ground and saves you have dug there are super...Congrats!!!
Banner find and location...

 

[Shakakka]

OH MY!!! What a awesome find!!!!! True bucket lister, and Banner in my opinion. You don't see a lot of Pistareens found! Great piece of coin history.

Other finds are also nice. Well done!!! Congrats and HH

Thanks! I had no idea what a Pistareen was until just now, when you guys mentioned the word so many times I looked it up. Very cool! I like the Pistareen design better than the pillared Reales. Although those are cool too, and you wouldn't find me leaving one in the hole.

Here are a couple of pics after I cleaned it up a bit more, rubbing my greedy thumb over it a few dozen times.



It's the coolest thing I've ever dug. I can't stop holding it.

 

[Scrappy]

Yep, you know it's a good one when you keep picking it up for yet another look. Congrats!

 

[Eu_citzen]

That old silver isn't an everyday find. Nice!

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Carolina Tom]

Killer coin, congrats. From Spain, as opposed to New World Spanish... very well done.

I'd say the wait was worth it sir.

 

[plymouthian12]

Beautiful coin

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