First signal of the day is a small sliver of spanish silver

[Bill D. (VA)]

Try to say that 3 times real fast. I've been wanting to go back one more time and finish up at the very small 1600s mill site I've been to a few times recently. Last time out I found the end of a seal top spoon handle quite a ways in front of the knoll, and fairly close to my truck. Figured I needed to give that area one last shot. I got my first signal about 50 yards in. It registered in the mid-40s on my F75 and appeared to be small and shallow. I took my foot and moved some of the soybean debris to get my coil closer to the ground, but when I swung over that spot again the target had disappeared. I quickly determined that it had been moved by my foot so I wasn't expecting anything but a small piece of surface junk. Had to eventually use my pinpointer to find it, and finally saw this small little silvery chunk. The side facing me was blank so I was still figuring it was just trash. But something made me turn it over and to my amazement I could see a design, and instantly knew I had a very small piece of spanish silver. After getting home I saw the crown, and based on that and the radius of curvature it appears this is from an early 1700s 1 reale. Pretty cool way to start the hunt. Needless to say, I hunkered down in that spot for a bit and made a few other finds. I eventually spread out from there and ran a loose grid for about 2 hours with little else to show for my efforts. Near the end of the hunt I did recover some sort of iron tool, most likely a splitter or chisel of some sort. Looks like it should clean up nicely in the electrolysis tank, but it will have to take its turn in line. And now I may have to go back to this site one more time if I can get there before the weeds and/or farmer close me out.

 

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[birdman]

Love every little silver sliver . Very cool.

 

[tennessee digger]

Once again Bill, you recovered some really old relics. How many buttons have been found there? Love the little silver.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Congratulations

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

More great finds Bill, what's the knob like thing that's in the frame?
ZDD

 

[joeyfresh]

Sweet! What's it been, one...two weeks since ur last Spanish silver, lol. I hope that sliver has cured ur withdrawals.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

More great finds Bill, what's the knob like thing that's in the frame?
ZDD

I think it's just a drawer pull Dave.

 

[WHADIFIND]

WOW! What are you using? A one inch coil!?!?! LOL

Nice finds!
HH!

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice little grouping there Bill. Very curious cut on the silver. I like the button with the design on the face. I also see you have a bridal mount in the upper right of the photo. I used to think they were buttons, but the iron boss always bothered me. I have since seen them on the UK finds site identified as mounts.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Nice little grouping there Bill. Very curious cut on the silver. I like the button with the design on the face. I also see you have a bridal mount in the upper right of the photo. I used to think they were buttons, but the iron boss always bothered me. I have since seen them on the UK finds site identified as mounts.

I used to think the same thing Steve. Those mounts are definitely a common find at colonial sites. I can't begin to tell you how many I've dug over the years.

 

[John Boy]

Bill your sure are digging some very nice finds for sure.keep up the great work.

 

[plymouthian12]

thats cool still waiting to find a cut coin

 

[johnnyblaze]

Nice little sliver Bill

But that axe is killer

Blaze

 

[screwynewy]

I used to think the same thing Steve. Those mounts are definitely a common find at colonial sites. I can't begin to tell you how many I've dug over the years.

I'm glad that I saw this post. I've dug several of these lately from colonial sites and didn't know what they were.

 

[metalev4]

I hope you get to 25 Spanish silver on the year Bill. Only 2 more to go, I think you can make it!