The 298 Year Old Virgin...Silver!!

[romeo-1]

Today Tony and I got permission for a virgin site that we've been eyeing for quite a while. Lately we've been getting on new sites that had been hunted before but this one was untouched. It is a massive field and actually turned out to be three different sites. A 1920s era site, a Victorian site and a very early French site. Guess which site I found my find of the day?

There weren't a lot of targets on the earliest site but the field we were detecting butts up against a corn field and I suspect the actual bulk of the site is there. The corn should be coming down soon so we will test that theory.

The silver is a 1719 French 10 Sol...a first for me! As soon as I saw the edges I knew it was old. Took a little bit of Googling to positively ID it. It's by far the best coin I've dug in a couple years!

Other notables were the horseshoe brooch and the Canada medal which I need to research further.

We'll be back there next weekend because I think we just scratched the surface! Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

 

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[Kurios1]

Another confirmation that research is the key to scoring cool old stuff. Loving the old French silver coin. Congrats on that one. Wonderful assortment of relics as well. Great success on your returns.

 

[ironhorse]

That French coin is killer!
A good old site like that is something I miss dearly
Congratulations on sweet find!

 

[against the wind]

Corn comes down,, tent goes up,, lol.
Congratulations on a sweet French Lady.

 

[scruggs]

Spectacular French silver find, congratulations!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Killer coin - love the off-center strike.

 

[hbru123]

Amazing finds!! Congrats!

 

[Dirtwisher]

Gorgeous silver

 

[Mzjavert]

 

[sutphin]

FINE RELICS THERE>

 

[Scrappy]

Beautiful. That's a very young portrait of the king, he was just 11

Crazy nice find Romeo

 

[Stef45]

That is a great coin find! Love the off center strike too. Congrats

 

[romeo-1]

Beautiful. That's a very young portrait of the king, he was just 11

Crazy nice find Romeo

Cool...did not realize that! Guess the title of this thread is even more apt!

 

[washingtonian]

Sweet old silver! That's a real beauty.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the old silver and other nice finds

 

[DetectorMoe]

I like the horseshoe brooch. Cool find..

 

[Ahab8]

Cool...did not realize that! Guess the title of this thread is even more apt!

Don't count on that lol. Killer early silver buddy. Love the off center strike on that beauty. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of killer finds from you in the near future. Tell that to get rid of that damn corn

 

[park pirate]

Awesome hunt man...

 

[sprailroad]

That French coin is killer!
A good old site like that is something I miss dearly
Congratulations on sweet find!

What ironhorse said.

 

[romeo-1]

I like the horseshoe brooch. Cool find..

The brooch was my first find of the day...good way to start with a horseshoe!