1776 Spanish Silver! - Western Indiana

bcbirdman

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It has only been 3 weeks since I posted my first ever Spanish silver coin, an 1818 Ferdinand VII coin. Well here I am again somehow posting an even better coin that I found in a different field a few miles away! I'm absolutely stoked. This is easily my best find now, and the year 1776 makes it that much sweeter. The field I found it in has a few high spots and a few homesites mapped on the 1874 maps I've been using. Those mapped homesites have been detected in the past I assume because I found them and almost all there is is iron. So I kept walking and I discovered an unmapped homesite that probably predates 1874 (our earliest maps of the region). And it was sandy soil which was super fun to dig and preserved the relics amazingly. Some buttons were in near perfect shape. Also found an 1868 five cent coin and a pocket watch frame, another first for me.
 

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It has only been 3 weeks since I posted my first ever Spanish silver coin, an 1818 Ferdinand VII coin. Well here I am again somehow posting an even better coin that I found in a different field a few miles away! I'm absolutely stoked. This is easily my best find now, and the year 1776 makes it that much sweeter. The field I found it in has a few high spots and a few homesites mapped on the 1874 maps I've been using. Those mapped homesites have been detected in the past I assume because I found them and almost all there is is iron. So I kept walking and I discovered an unmapped homesite that probably predates 1874 (our earliest maps of the region). And it was sandy soil which was super fun to dig and preserved the relics amazingly. Some buttons were in near perfect shape. Also found an 1868 five cent coin and a pocket watch frame, another first for me.
Awesome!!!! Congrats!!!
 

It has only been 3 weeks since I posted my first ever Spanish silver coin, an 1818 Ferdinand VII coin. Well here I am again somehow posting an even better coin that I found in a different field a few miles away! I'm absolutely stoked. This is easily my best find now, and the year 1776 makes it that much sweeter. The field I found it in has a few high spots and a few homesites mapped on the 1874 maps I've been using. Those mapped homesites have been detected in the past I assume because I found them and almost all there is is iron. So I kept walking and I discovered an unmapped homesite that probably predates 1874 (our earliest maps of the region). And it was sandy soil which was super fun to dig and preserved the relics amazingly. Some buttons were in near perfect shape. Also found an 1868 five cent coin and a pocket watch frame, another first for me.
wow, great job and your recoveries are in such good shape! So cool........
 

Congrats on the silver and the buttons.
Liking the Thistle one, even the back is really nice.

I've found many undocumented early sites on another small rise in the same field.

Probably the first home before the they build the larger home.
 

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