Late 1820s pocket spill find - 2 Bust Halves and 2 Spanish Silver

[Don in SJ]

This morning I wanted to do a hunt around the perimeter area of the homestead I got the 5 coppers at last week but the underbrush is really filling out now so I had to keep a bit closer to the actual homestead, where less underbrush was. I was hunting less than 15 minutes, and had recovered some pewter and brass pieces of unknowns when all of a sudden my XS screamed Silver to me!

I forgot my camera of course, but maybe that was the good luck I needed for this find. To my amazement the first thing I saw out of the hole was a big hunk of silver coin!

I picked it up and saw part of the Bust so I knew I had a Bust Half Dollar, I rechecked the hole with the probe and another coin was in there. Dug down the one side a bit and out pops the second Bust Half Dollar, this one completely coated but I knew what it was thanks to seeing the first one.

Now I stood up and rescanned the hole and off to the left side it was indicating yet a third coin! I enlarged the opening and out comes a thin smaller silver, which at first I was hoping to be a bust quarter but knew by the thinness it was going to be a Spanish Real. Just was not sure till I got home and checked but it was a One Real.....

Thinking wow, 3 silver in one hole, that never happened before, in fact Bust Half never happened before, but I did check the hole one more time and got a faint somewhat good coin type reading, gouged out the remaining dirt with my hand and the coin was now in the pile. A small one, a Half Real.




So 4 Silvers in one hole, a first for me for something so old and so big, I was without a doubt thrilled to see this today. I thought of quitting right away to save the site for another hunt with my son and decided to slowly work my way back to the truck.

Just as I passed the area where my son got his 1794 Large Cent last week, I got a funky possible coin/iron reading. I noticed it was next to a fallen log that I had dug a hole right next to this signal last week and I remember it being a piece of iron pot. But today, maybe because of the wet ground, I heard coin and out pops a copper!


I had no idea what the copper was, I could tell it seen better days, but after cleaning it did show a nice date of 1722 and some of NIA from Brittania, so I knew I had a 1722 King George I Halfpenny. Right next to it was a button like relic, not sure if it is a button that was modified or was used for something else.


Overall, what a great hunt of less than one hour duration, April 2010, without a doubt was a winner for me.

Finds for the day, a very beautiful 1826 Bust Half Dollar


A very nice 1827 Bust Half Dollar

A decent 1782 Spanish One Real

A heavily worn 1784? Spanish Half Real

Heavily worn and abused 1722 King George I Halfpenny

And a large possible button modified with two holes after shank sheared off, or perhaps something else


Don

[hogge]

UNBELIEVEABLE! That 1826 has to be close to EF. You are DA man!!

[postalgriff]

WOW!!! Amazing pocket spill and a big congrats to you!!! those bust halves look amazing! I'm voting banner. congratulations again Don!

[Kirk PA]

Awesome day in the field, Don! You had a good day indeed.

Kirk

[watercolor]

Holy moly!!!!

Now that's a spill to dream about

You have my Banner vote

Excellent recovery. . . and no scratches or tool dings

[waterfalljay]

Beautiful condition!!!

[Captn SE]

I've never seen such an old "pocket spill" of coins!!

Those are just amazing, Don! Major congrats!!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

[mobile miner]

What beautiful coins. Great day for you. Banner for sure.

[ironhorse]

wow

super cool finds there!!!!!

unbelievable finds my God man! big congrats on a wicked find

that's what detecting is about

[sscindercoop]

Amazing

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

All I can say is WOW !! Don, you really know how to get it done I too will be voting for the BANNER !
This find in my opinion is one of the best that I have ever seen.

Congrats for sure, VPR

[Iron Patch]

DAMNNNNNNNN! That must have near knocked you off your feet!

[mainer]

Good job Don! That is a super find, im voting banner on that one.

[plumloko]

DAMN!
That is awesome!
Congrats!

[Iron Patch]

Good job Don! That is a super find, im voting banner on that one.

There are some I don't think we even have to vote.... and this is one.

[Clad the Impaler]

WOW!! Those capped bust halves are in incredible condition!! Please make sure you protect them/preserve them asap....you might also want to consider submitting one or both coins to PCGS or NGC for grading and slabbing/preservation....no matter what, FANTASTIC FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wayupnorth66]

Congrats....what a great day for you!!

[mountainplayer]

Don,

Was just planning to lurk today but I had to login to congratulate you on an incredible find. Those bust halfs are gorgeous! I'm thinking you found yourself a cache...hard to imagine someone losing that kind of cash (and that size of cash!) in a pocket spill. Thanks for the great pics, too. I can imagine what they looked like spilling out of your sandy soil.

MP

[Jaygee Western MA]

some gorgeous silver history there, superb find

[RPG]

Good job Don! That is a super find, im voting banner on that one.

There are some I don't think we even have to vote.... and this is one.

I agree. This should make banner all by itself. But, I'm voting, just to be sure.

Great hunt Don. I'm sure you'll remember this one for a long time. 8)