1749 Spanish Pillar Real

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

After work I headed back to a site next to the site I dug my Talbot,Allum & Lee New York condor token and the CT copper yesterday.Dug quite a few square nails around the lip of the hole and a suspender buckle. About 5 feet from the edge of cellar up against a small tree sapling I got a 78 VDI. Expecting a old bottle cap at 2 inches I flip the plug and stuck in the bottom of the plug I see a 1749 Spanish silver pillar real staring at me.My 1st pillar Spanish ever. Gotta love this hobby!

 

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[TomW244]

What a gorgeous coin!!! Great recovery and congrats!

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

What a gorgeous coin!!! Great recovery and congrats!

thanks Tom!

 

[villagenut]

Looks like you got two good sites and they are close together too. I would be on it as I am sure you will be.Great finds!

 

[smokeythecat]

It's a great looking coin. So many of those silvers are wiped almost clean from wear, showing they were in circulation a long, long time. Yours was lost within 50 years of it's making for it to retain that much detail.

 

[DownNDirty]

You're on a roll!! Congrats for finding a personal first-very nice silver.

 

[lairmo]

You are on fire!!!!

 

[muttandjeeps]

That’s a beauty!

 

[Aureus]

Beautiful early colonial silver. Congratulations!

 

[Bquamb]

Wow. What a great looking coin! So clean looking. It always amazes me how some stuff sinks, and others dont.

 

[treblehunter]

That's one pretty coin, congrats!

 

[pepperj]

Congrats on the great looking silver & buckle, both are sweet keepers.

 

[Coil-2-Soil]

Super find ! Great detail for its age. Congrats and HH

 

[Hawks88]

Beautiful coin. Love it congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful coin and nice old buckle, congratulations!

 

[Relicific]

Sweet Spanish silver

 

[hunting deer]

Wow! It's in great shape! Congrats!

 

[Ahab8]

These 1749 coins were shipped over directly from the mint to our shores as payment for helping out the British. I have a lot of 1749s in great condition. My nicest Spanish is that exact same coin you just found. Congrats on that beauty bud

 

[washingtonian]

Wow, now that's an oldie. Nice find!!

 

[Scrappy]

Excellent find. It’s been quite a while since I dug a pillar real. Whatta beauty! Congrats