Iron Brigade Lives On Digging Spanish Silver

Hill Billy

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Rains a coming and I needed a fix!
Got together with Nova Treasure this afternoon and did some digging after we got off work. We have both been trying to get out and do some swinging for awhile now and it finally managed to happen. We finished work and it started raining, I asked Bill if he still wanted to go and of course he said yes. I said follow me, off we went down the highway like two drug addicts searching for a high. I took Bill to a site that I had previously hunted, since that was all I had until I do some more research.
We got to swinging and up came some flat buttons. The finds were sparse, this site had been hunted 5 times now. We kept searching for those good signals, short while later I got one. I dug an 1872 shield nickel. I moved about three feet and dug another shield nickel, an 1869. Wow I'm thinking, 2 at one site . More flats kept popping up and then the silver came to light. A holed 1783 half reale was now staring me in the face. It looks to have been chewed by whoever wore it around their neck unfortunately, but I'll take it. :thumbsup: We kept hunting for an hour or so longer and had to quit. Now we have a couple of days of rain to look forward to >:(.
We'll be back and thanks for looking,

Hill
 

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West Jersey Detecting

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Nice going on the finds! I thought I found a half reale today, but for the first time, I was glad it wasn't!
 

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Hill Billy

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Deno said:
Nice hunt, Spanish silver always looks good, the shield nickles aren't bad either.

Thanks Deno :thumbsup:

ModernMiner said:
Congrats HB,
I'd be happy with the flat buttons. Those nice old coins would just be a bonus.
No rain here is Vegas this weekend, but it is raining beautiful women.
Congrats on the Spanish silver Dude.
-Dug-

Nothing wrong with beautiful women Doug, enjoy.
Win some money while your out there.

CrazySlasher said:
I love beat up Spanish silver :headbang:

Me too!

terpfan said:
You have a knack finding those spanish silvers, HB. Congrats. Do you think this half real could have been in a fire? It has that wavy look to it, as if it had been in some heat.

No I don't think it was in a fire, it has definitely been chomped on by someone in it's day.

Daedalus said:
They most likely put the Reale in his mouth to take out a bullet or an arrow , and that is how it got chewed up ! :)

You may be right :dontknow:

coinmaster2db said:
Good finds.

HH!
Cm2db

Thanks Mike , we need to get a hunt in sometime.

Neil in West Jersey said:
Nice going on the finds! I thought I found a half reale today, but for the first time, I was glad it wasn't!

I'd have been happier finding what you did Niel, your find is something special :thumbsup:
 

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You didn't chew it, someone else did; you can only find what's out there! And nice finds, by the way.
 

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Now that's some fix!! :icon_thumright:
 

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Hill Billy

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halfdime said:
You didn't chew it, someone else did; you can only find what's out there! And nice finds, by the way.

Your right, I didn't chew it, and I'll take all the chewed Spanish I can get.

Freehunter1972 said:
You Guys Are FIRE :icon_thumright: KEEP It Up, And I'll Have To Come To Kentucky :thumbsup: A. Friend :) HH HB :icon_thumright:...
Come on, The Beast and I are waiting.
 

Tnmountains

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Great hunt! Flat buttons two shields and spanish silver. Holy cow just typing that all seemed weird,lol Congratulations on your finds.
After last weeks tornados we are now under flood watch!
HH
TnMtns
 

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Hill Billy

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TnMountains said:
Great hunt! Flat buttons two shields and spanish silver. Holy cow just typing that all seemed weird,lol Congratulations on your finds.
After last weeks tornados we are now under flood watch!
HH
TnMtns

And it keeps on raining, up to 2 inches tonight and tomorrow. What gives?
 

Steve in PA

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Pretty good results for a hard hunted site ;D

I have made some great finds on sites I thought I had hunted out. I never quit on a good site until I have made more than one trip without finding anything.
 

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