1749 Spanish Pillar Real

HEAVYMETALNUT

Silver Member
Dec 8, 2008
3,465
2,981
CT
🥇 Banner finds
6
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
2
Detector(s) used
White's MXT All Pro,White's MX Sport , White's XLT E-Series,White's eagle spectrum,White's Silver Eagle & White's 4000-D
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
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!
 

Attachments

  • P4201320.JPG
    P4201320.JPG
    1.7 MB · Views: 124
  • P4201321.JPG
    P4201321.JPG
    1.9 MB · Views: 115
  • P4201322.JPG
    P4201322.JPG
    1.7 MB · Views: 121
  • P4201323.JPG
    P4201323.JPG
    1.7 MB · Views: 99
  • P4201324.JPG
    P4201324.JPG
    1.7 MB · Views: 110
  • P4201325.JPG
    P4201325.JPG
    1.7 MB · Views: 114
  • P4201326.JPG
    P4201326.JPG
    1.8 MB · Views: 106
  • P4201327.JPG
    P4201327.JPG
    1.8 MB · Views: 94
  • P4201329.JPG
    P4201329.JPG
    1.3 MB · Views: 145
Upvote 48

TomW244

Hero Member
Sep 2, 2017
976
2,185
Florida
Detector(s) used
Minelab Equinox 600, Garrett AT Pro, Garrett Pinpointer, Bounty Hunter Gold Digger
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
What a gorgeous coin!!! Great recovery and congrats!
 

OP
OP
HEAVYMETALNUT

HEAVYMETALNUT

Silver Member
Dec 8, 2008
3,465
2,981
CT
🥇 Banner finds
6
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
2
Detector(s) used
White's MXT All Pro,White's MX Sport , White's XLT E-Series,White's eagle spectrum,White's Silver Eagle & White's 4000-D
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting

villagenut

Gold Member
Oct 18, 2014
5,766
10,275
florida
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
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

Gold Member
Nov 22, 2012
20,724
40,808
Maryland
🥇 Banner finds
10
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
XP Deus II
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
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

Bronze Member
Jun 1, 2015
2,178
3,194
South Carolina
🥇 Banner finds
1
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Minelab Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
You're on a roll!! Congrats for finding a personal first-very nice silver.
 

Aureus

Silver Member
Sep 5, 2016
4,216
8,347
Eastern Canada
🥇 Banner finds
4
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
2
Detector(s) used
XP DEUS
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Beautiful early colonial silver. Congratulations!
 

Bquamb

Hero Member
Dec 29, 2014
561
511
Vancouver Island
Detector(s) used
CTX 3030, EQ 800, AT-Pro, Xterra-505
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Wow. What a great looking coin! So clean looking. It always amazes me how some stuff sinks, and others dont.
 

treblehunter

Gold Member
Jun 18, 2013
9,675
11,295
New Jersey
Detector(s) used
Minelab Excalibur II
XP Deus
Garrett pro pointer
XP Deus MI-6 pinpointer
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
That's one pretty coin, congrats!
 

pepperj

Gold Member
Feb 3, 2009
37,622
139,542
🥇 Banner finds
1
Detector(s) used
Deus, Deus 2, Minelab 3030, E-Trac,
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Congrats on the great looking silver & buckle, both are sweet keepers.
 

Oct 5, 2014
31,886
35,425
Massachusetts
🥇 Banner finds
1
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Garrett: AT Pro, AT Gold & Infinium; Minelab: Explorer SE, II; Simplex; Tesoro: Tejon & Outlaw; White's: V3i
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Beautiful coin and nice old buckle, congratulations!
 

Relicific

Silver Member
Feb 2, 2017
3,426
4,427
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
XP DEUS
X terra 705
Fisher F2
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Sweet Spanish silver
 

Ahab8

Gold Member
Oct 15, 2013
8,408
8,288
Topsham, Maine
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
Teknetics T2 SE w/15' SEF Coil/ Minelab GPX 4500/2 Garrett Pro Pointers/3 Sets Killer B Headphones/ Koss Headphones/ Detekniy Wireless headphone Adapter
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
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
 

Scrappy

Gold Member
Mar 6, 2014
9,204
14,019
17th century
🥇 Banner finds
7
Detector(s) used
Minelab CTX 3030 & XP Deus
Primary Interest:
Other
Excellent find. It’s been quite a while since I dug a pillar real. Whatta beauty! Congrats
 

Top Member Reactions

Users who are viewing this thread

Top