Hunted Out Saxon Site - another Spanish silver...

[CRUSADER]

This field we hit hard last year after many years of repeat visits & we never found the better targets we hoped for. This year the field has only had a 6 inch turn & the conditions are far from perfect so we never expected to get so many hits.(had plenty of rain though) Nice surprise, so we stuck it out for just over 5 hours of gridding.
You search years for something & then 2 come along, almost at once. My first Spanish silver was a little early for my liking & now this one is a little late, fingers crossed the next is a cob.

17th C Button
Blank silver coin
3.5 Jettons
2 Rose Farthings
13th C broken bit of Annular Brooch
Broken Saxon Strap-end
1755 1/2 Real, Lima Mint.

 

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[Steve in PA]

Hey at least it has a Lima Peru mintmark.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Congrats Cru. Very well done, as usual.

I enjoy seeing all of the really old relics and coins that you and Crudad find. Thanks for posting, and giving me a free education!

Hope that you both have a nice weekend.

 

[CRUSADER]

Congrats Cru. Very well done, as usual.

I enjoy seeing all of the really old relics and coins that you and Crudad find. Thanks for posting, and giving me a free education!

Hope that you both have a nice weekend.

Thanks...

 

[romeo-1]

Good stuff! I don't know how you kept on detecting after all those non-Spanish silver years...oh, wait...

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Man that place is still loaded.
Like that large fancy button.
I guess I missed the post with your first Spanish, you say too early, what was it ?

 

[CRUSADER]

Man that place is still loaded.
Like that large fancy button.
I guess I missed the post with your first Spanish, you say too early, what was it ?

1/2 Reale of Ferdinand and Isabella, c.1469-1502
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...ion-s-neighbour-site-day-2-3-wish-lister.html
Not a pretty one...

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some more nice stuff

 

[btjbtj]

Happy for you, Cru. Middle photo, top left button--WOW! So gorgeous. Great job. -Lisa & John

 

[Aureus]

Great finds! Had no idea you guys get those Spanish as well.

 

[deershed]

I like that Spanish silver!! I'd like to find just one with a full date. The rest of the coin can be toast, just would like to see a full date.
Congrats on another pile of Sweet finds!!

 

[Mackaydon]

Cru,
You may actually have a 1R coin. Take a look here:
1 Real from 1755 - SPAIN 1746-59 - FERNANDO VI - The Coin Database
Check the diameter: 15mm is a 1/2R and 20mm is a 1R
Don....

 

[DownNDirty]

Very nice group of finds, especially for a hunted out field (they're never really hunted out)

 

[Benjamin52]

Nice Spanish silver. Although pierced, the condition is otherwise rather good. My wife is from Peru. When I lived there I found a peruvian Silver coin with a hole in it also. It might have been common to pierce coins in order to wear them or secure them on a string? Just my guess.. Hope to find lots of similar ones when I go to Peru in August with my better detector.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great finds! Had no idea you guys get those Spanish as well.

In my area we don't.

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru,
You may actually have a 1R coin. Take a look here:
1 Real from 1755 - SPAIN 1746-59 - FERNANDO VI - The Coin Database
Check the diameter: 15mm is a 1/2R and 20mm is a 1R
Don....

Did before I posted, its 16mm but under weight for a 1/2.

 

[CRUSADER]

Very nice group of finds, especially for a hunted out field (they're never really hunted out)

We know. But somehow we have cherry picked all the good stuff & left the buttons. Although there always was plenty of button on this field.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice Spanish silver. Although pierced, the condition is otherwise rather good. My wife is from Peru. When I lived there I found a peruvian Silver coin with a hole in it also. It might have been common to pierce coins in order to wear them or secure them on a string? Just my guess.. Hope to find lots of similar ones when I go to Peru in August with my better detector.

Yes, & they sewn them in their clothes for a safe travel.

 

[CRUSADER]

Happy for you, Cru. Middle photo, top left button--WOW! So gorgeous. Great job. -Lisa & John

Yeap, pleased with that one.

 

[Z.K.]

That's great! So strange how these things work out. Happy for you