Don in SJ
Silver Member
- May 20, 2005
- 4,931
- 832
- Detector(s) used
- MINELAB SE Pro
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Went out this morning for a hunt at the sawmill site that gave me my first 1680's Charles II Irish Halfpenny earlier this year, this site is old, even for my area. I hunted about an hour or so in the hot white open sugar sand with only a piece of buckshot to show for it, so I decided to do some old sandy road walking towards the nearby river.
I no sooner got on one rarely used sandy road and got a pretty good high tone on the detector. I dug and I dug, I kept spreading the sandy loam out and the darn signal kept on evading me, that is good, since when that happens it means small silver and yes, that is exactly what it was.
To my delight I finally saw the small disc laying in the sand and new I either had a half dime or half real. Well, was not sure of what Real it was until I got back to the truck and than I saw the Pillar and new it was an oldie. 1739!!! That by far is my oldest Half Real I ever have found by over 32 years! It was the first Pillar type Half Real, which will go nicely with the couple 1 Pillar Real I have and the one 2 Pillar Reale.
Both my son and I over the years have done pretty good on walking the old dirt roads and getting random drops but in recent years that has not been happening. I believe the last random road find we have found was my son's counterfeit Copper 2 Reale. Anytime we find a road find like that, we always scour the area on both sides of the road in hopes of a work area or homestead, no such luck today.
Don
I no sooner got on one rarely used sandy road and got a pretty good high tone on the detector. I dug and I dug, I kept spreading the sandy loam out and the darn signal kept on evading me, that is good, since when that happens it means small silver and yes, that is exactly what it was.
To my delight I finally saw the small disc laying in the sand and new I either had a half dime or half real. Well, was not sure of what Real it was until I got back to the truck and than I saw the Pillar and new it was an oldie. 1739!!! That by far is my oldest Half Real I ever have found by over 32 years! It was the first Pillar type Half Real, which will go nicely with the couple 1 Pillar Real I have and the one 2 Pillar Reale.
Both my son and I over the years have done pretty good on walking the old dirt roads and getting random drops but in recent years that has not been happening. I believe the last random road find we have found was my son's counterfeit Copper 2 Reale. Anytime we find a road find like that, we always scour the area on both sides of the road in hopes of a work area or homestead, no such luck today.
Don
Attachments
Upvote
0
That definately makes the hunt worth while...Congrats
