Aureus
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to resume a two days hunt under the cold autumn rain in Montreal.
Decided to continue my river exploring even thou I'm having a bit of a cold (partially caused by my previous hunts) and despite the cold,rainy and windy weather. The water is getting cooler everyday so i'm trying to limit my outings to 2-3 hours max.
Despite that, had my personal record Spanish silver hunt to date. Pulled a beautiful 1759 2 Reales coin and two 1 Real coins (1775,1781) Also a bunch of halfpenny tokens in a pretty washed condition (except the beautiful Wellington 1814 Halfpenny). Got a bunch of interesting relics as well, I will try to post them after the cleaning.
The Reales were in a very bad condition as were covered in a black crust,same as the half Real I pulled a week ago. Was working really hard to clean them. Pretty glad with the condition of the 2 Reales but both of the singe ones did not clean as well. I'm very excited about this spot and feel really happy and privileged to have been the one to uncover those coins after they hid for centuries in the river mud.
I included the pics of the 2 Reales coin before the cleaning so you can have a better idea of the effort (at least 12 hours)it took to get it cleaned.The lemon juice trick doesn't work on that type of crust.
Note: The Hibernia halfpenny in the groupe picture is from my previous hunt on that spot. Just wanted to include it in the pic as it's from the same period as my Spanish silver.
A nice little hunt!
Just wanted to resume a two days hunt under the cold autumn rain in Montreal.
Decided to continue my river exploring even thou I'm having a bit of a cold (partially caused by my previous hunts) and despite the cold,rainy and windy weather. The water is getting cooler everyday so i'm trying to limit my outings to 2-3 hours max.
Despite that, had my personal record Spanish silver hunt to date. Pulled a beautiful 1759 2 Reales coin and two 1 Real coins (1775,1781) Also a bunch of halfpenny tokens in a pretty washed condition (except the beautiful Wellington 1814 Halfpenny). Got a bunch of interesting relics as well, I will try to post them after the cleaning.
The Reales were in a very bad condition as were covered in a black crust,same as the half Real I pulled a week ago. Was working really hard to clean them. Pretty glad with the condition of the 2 Reales but both of the singe ones did not clean as well. I'm very excited about this spot and feel really happy and privileged to have been the one to uncover those coins after they hid for centuries in the river mud.
I included the pics of the 2 Reales coin before the cleaning so you can have a better idea of the effort (at least 12 hours)it took to get it cleaned.The lemon juice trick doesn't work on that type of crust.
Note: The Hibernia halfpenny in the groupe picture is from my previous hunt on that spot. Just wanted to include it in the pic as it's from the same period as my Spanish silver.
A nice little hunt!
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Thanks man! Again, I have seen some of your finds and wouldn't mind to look as ''pathetic'' as you. 
The little spot on the river I found was an amazing experience and an unusual one as I'm much more into land (woods,fields) detecting. Never seen that thick crust on the coins before, almost like a plastic. Every single one of them took a much greater effort to find and than to clean than my land finds. By the way, IP told me the same thing about keeping the dug condition. They do look different from my field or woods Reales and I will keep them as they are in the pic, no additional cleaning. 
it took me 3 years to get three of them!
Man, you really have a great site. Just began the old parks run too, just sorry the cold is coming fast but we still have some time 
