{Sentinel}
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1559-1560 Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling & Phillip V Pistareen found in VIRGINIA
What's up my fellow dirt addicts! Here's my finds for this week! Jeff and I returned to this new site that we're working this week and decided to hunt a new area of it. After hunting for a couple hours we thought it was a bust...We were making our way back to the car to go to another area just kinda talking and detecting when I got a signal hitting half-way decent but I had been digging old brass pieces for the past two hours with only 2 three ringers to speak of so I wasn't expecting too much when I popped the plug.....But when I did a Clipped Phillip V Pistareen flew out and landed back down into the hole! That made my day and really wasn't expecting anything better for that day. After this find, miraculously like it always happens, the other finds start coming and within an hour Jeff got himself a quarter piece!
and we were also digging quite a few buttons.....As the day was ending and it was gettting dark IT HAPPENED! I got a solid signal albeit only hitting at +30 V.D.I. but I had to dig it as it sounded so perfect and sharp.....When I popped the plug I saw a thin round half of silver?? HMMM What's this I thought 
But when I picked it up and the dirt fell away, I could see that it was a very early hammered silver coin that had been Clipped in half.. I had my suspicions that it was a Shilling (but a shilling of who?), after all, these English Hammered coins do pop-up from time to time here in Virginia but seldom; if you're talking colonial Silver here, nine times out of ten it's usually Spanish. After getting home and researching it, I then had my good buddy Silver Searcher Verify and date it: It the EARLIEST Coin/Relic/anything that I've ever dug, a 1500's Clipped Elizabeth Shilling! 
I doubt I'll EVER dig anything older than this small piece of silver....older than the first Colony at Jamestown here in Virginia established 1607
Here's the pics:
(Video at Bottom of the Pistareen, it was very near dark when I got the Shilling and without a light on my camera phone it was futile to try an record as the entire picture was black):
Fresh from the pouch:
1700's Phillip V Clipped Pistareen & 1500's Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling (Before)
Complete Colonial Spectacle Buckle
Buttons
Nipple Button (Biggest one I've ever dug! Crusader assisted me in dating one I dug a couple years ago to the 1600s)
Front
Back
Early 2-Piece Eagle Coat
BULLETS
Buckles
Impromptu Sinker
Standing Liberty and other Modern Silver (Thought the SLQ was another Reale as the edge was the only thing sticking out from the side of the hole; got the camera out took a pic (*can post on request
) and then popped it to reveal alas...not Spanish...Second time its happened to me in a week WITH THE SAME EXACT COIN: A Standing Liberty!)
Example of a whole Elizabeth I Shilling
1559-1560 Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling (Cleaned)
1700s Phillip V Clipped One Reale Pistareen (Cleaned)
Phillip V Clipped Pisatreen & Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling (After)
GROUP SHOT
VIDEO
What's up my fellow dirt addicts! Here's my finds for this week! Jeff and I returned to this new site that we're working this week and decided to hunt a new area of it. After hunting for a couple hours we thought it was a bust...We were making our way back to the car to go to another area just kinda talking and detecting when I got a signal hitting half-way decent but I had been digging old brass pieces for the past two hours with only 2 three ringers to speak of so I wasn't expecting too much when I popped the plug.....But when I did a Clipped Phillip V Pistareen flew out and landed back down into the hole! That made my day and really wasn't expecting anything better for that day. After this find, miraculously like it always happens, the other finds start coming and within an hour Jeff got himself a quarter piece!
and we were also digging quite a few buttons.....As the day was ending and it was gettting dark IT HAPPENED! I got a solid signal albeit only hitting at +30 V.D.I. but I had to dig it as it sounded so perfect and sharp.....When I popped the plug I saw a thin round half of silver?? HMMM What's this I thought But when I picked it up and the dirt fell away, I could see that it was a very early hammered silver coin that had been Clipped in half.. I had my suspicions that it was a Shilling (but a shilling of who?), after all, these English Hammered coins do pop-up from time to time here in Virginia but seldom; if you're talking colonial Silver here, nine times out of ten it's usually Spanish. After getting home and researching it, I then had my good buddy Silver Searcher Verify and date it: It the EARLIEST Coin/Relic/anything that I've ever dug, a 1500's Clipped Elizabeth Shilling! I doubt I'll EVER dig anything older than this small piece of silver....older than the first Colony at Jamestown here in Virginia established 1607 Here's the pics:
(Video at Bottom of the Pistareen, it was very near dark when I got the Shilling and without a light on my camera phone it was futile to try an record as the entire picture was black):
Fresh from the pouch:
1700's Phillip V Clipped Pistareen & 1500's Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling (Before)
Complete Colonial Spectacle Buckle
Buttons
Nipple Button (Biggest one I've ever dug! Crusader assisted me in dating one I dug a couple years ago to the 1600s)
Front
Back
Early 2-Piece Eagle Coat
BULLETS
Buckles
Impromptu Sinker
Standing Liberty and other Modern Silver (Thought the SLQ was another Reale as the edge was the only thing sticking out from the side of the hole; got the camera out took a pic (*can post on request
) and then popped it to reveal alas...not Spanish...Second time its happened to me in a week WITH THE SAME EXACT COIN: A Standing Liberty!)
Example of a whole Elizabeth I Shilling
1559-1560 Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling (Cleaned)
1700s Phillip V Clipped One Reale Pistareen (Cleaned)
Phillip V Clipped Pisatreen & Elizabeth I Clipped Shilling (After)
GROUP SHOT
VIDEO
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You two have found some fantastic spots. You may never dig a coin older than that, but I'm sure you'll amaze us with some more great finds in the future.
congrats {Sentinel} 
Thanks for sharing your adventures, Josh! 
Good luck at the DIV!
