1808 Tavern site gives up Spanish silver

[TimmyNY]

Today started off a bit cold. with temps in the 20s. after a meeting of the Rochester club, Johnand I decided to hunt a few areas around Southern Wyoming county.

We decided to start at a recently cut corn field that had a hotel on it in the early 1800s. after locating the owner I went to ask permission. It was the closest Ive come to a rejection yet. He has a friend that detects who wanted to come over and hit the field. but he hadn't showed yet so he let us hunt the front half of the field. after about 2 hours we were wondering whether the hotel was there at all. The only thing we found was a memorial cent.

next we went to get permission to hunt a large potato field near by but the owner wasn't home.

it was getting close to 2:30 so we decided to hit one more place . an old tavern site that we've hunted several times before. this site has given up several draped bust large cents and buttons and has been hit pretty hard. after about 2 hours in the freezing wind with very few signals I finally got a decent signal. with the first shovel out pops this little baby. It is my second half real and by far the better shape. Its a good thing John was there to take the pics. maybe next time will be his turn.

Tim

[Gypsy Heart]

Way to go Tim ! What a fantastic find and its in such wonderful shape. Glad you were able to get out and hunt on such a beautiful day!
Congratulations !

[The Seeker]

Yes it was cold and windy! What a great half reale , that is one of the best looking ones I have seen in quite some time! Glad we got out and found some goodies! Well let me re-phrase that comment ........You found the goodies!

But hey you can't find coins everytime out.....i will settle for my cool selection of Pottery shards, iron relics , a strange fossil, a pigs tooth and what I believe is the neck top of some old bottle........!




Congrats again on a great find!!! WTG

John

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice looking 1774 Reale, congrats on the nice find! HH, Mike

[jeff of pa]

Nice find Tim !

Congrats !

[Green1]

wooooooooow awesome dig,, someday maybe........

[hollowpointred]

great looking 1/2 reale! awesome find!!

[Ridley]

That's hardcore! Great work.



Ridley

[EDDE]

the fossil is a brachiopod=clam
killer reale dig!

[Michigan Badger]

Mighty nice Tim...congrats!

Badger

[Johnny Cache Hunter]

That's simply awesome. Nice find!

[mxtswinger]

Absotively gorgeous. I think I'll ask Santa for one

CONGRATS!

[theloadroom]

Great relics Congratulations!

[Mona Lisa]

Beautiful coin, Timmy. I bet that felt great when you saw that beauty! Congratulations!

Nice picture taking, Seek. Oh...and seek..it looks like you almost have enough shards to cover that bowling ball now.

[Mirage]

Yeah, very nice pics. Love the on the spot photos. And a super find! Persistance pays off.

[Bobby S]

Very nice

[River Rat]

Awesome find, Timmy. Glad you and Seeker got out today. Windy & cold, you two are diehard MDers.

RR

[tinpan]

Hi tim,awsome find and the research  to even find a hotel in feild from that long a go "amazing" .Do you happen to have a copy of David.H .Burrs  Cartoygraghical Atlas for the state of New york [1829] or one of the other survey maps of the time.As they did put all structures and buildings on the maps.Or did you have another source of info on finding the hotel.Congrats


                                    tinpan

[Dig This]

Excellent find Tim, hopefully next weekend will be nice and i will go. Detector still down but have Johns. Congrads

[brnn53]

Thats a nice find. Way to go!
Mike