Z.K.
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1783 1/2 Real...first Spanish silver!
Yes!! The ground has fully thawed and I had a mind to test drive my new wireless headphones for the etrac. Decided to just try a field and homesite about 5 minutes from my house. I had low expectations but was just following my intuition rather than gridding. This homesite doesn't have much provenance and is covered in dense brush, with more surface trash than anyplace I've gone before, ranging from maple sugaring buckets to plastic antifreeze containers. My first signal in the field was the large animal hypodermic. Yikes! Nothing decent in the field besides the button, so after an hour decided to dive into all that brush. There was so much chatter, I almost bailed. But, I got a so-so signal and dug it up...first one in the thickets...and I see this little bit of silver peeping back up at me from not 4 inches down. When I picked it up I could clearly see "CARO," and just burst out laughing. Spent another 5 minutes and decided to quit while I was ahead, so excited to see what this actually was. Looks like a 1783 Charles III 1/2 real out of Mexico City!!! Let me know if I'm wrong anybody (aka, Don Mackay
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I spent the entire summer and fall trying to research and will a Spanish silver into existence. And then I find this great bucket lister practically in my backyard, and not three feet away from a can of Copenhagen from the 1980s! I'm still laughing at the damn ironies involved in this hobby. : )
Well, thanks for reading this rather lengthy post. Pretty happy at the moment.
Cheers and HH
Ken
Yes!! The ground has fully thawed and I had a mind to test drive my new wireless headphones for the etrac. Decided to just try a field and homesite about 5 minutes from my house. I had low expectations but was just following my intuition rather than gridding. This homesite doesn't have much provenance and is covered in dense brush, with more surface trash than anyplace I've gone before, ranging from maple sugaring buckets to plastic antifreeze containers. My first signal in the field was the large animal hypodermic. Yikes! Nothing decent in the field besides the button, so after an hour decided to dive into all that brush. There was so much chatter, I almost bailed. But, I got a so-so signal and dug it up...first one in the thickets...and I see this little bit of silver peeping back up at me from not 4 inches down. When I picked it up I could clearly see "CARO," and just burst out laughing. Spent another 5 minutes and decided to quit while I was ahead, so excited to see what this actually was. Looks like a 1783 Charles III 1/2 real out of Mexico City!!! Let me know if I'm wrong anybody (aka, Don Mackay
)I spent the entire summer and fall trying to research and will a Spanish silver into existence. And then I find this great bucket lister practically in my backyard, and not three feet away from a can of Copenhagen from the 1980s! I'm still laughing at the damn ironies involved in this hobby. : )
Well, thanks for reading this rather lengthy post. Pretty happy at the moment.
Cheers and HH
Ken
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Congrats on your first Spanish
Excellent hunt man.
