298 Year Old Spanish Silver!

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Good evening T-Net,

Worked a half day today, and was able to get out into one of my favorite sections of woods to do some detecting. Things were slow up to the 2 hour mark, with only a bale seal, some bullets, trash, and a clad quarter in my dump bag. Hit on a nice, repeatable signal that rang in at a "78", then jumped up to "85" after scraping some dirt away. Dug down about 5 inches , and out pops a thin silver disk, about the size of a quarter.
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It took me a minute for my brain to compute what was staring back at me from the bottom of the whole...Spanish Silver!!! YAHOOOOOOOO!!! After some cleaning, I was happy to see a 1721 CA JJ 2 real. My oldest silver to date.
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Thanks for taking a look. Happy Memorial Day to everyone!
Scott
 

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Very very nice!
 

Awesome! Congrats
 

Congratulations on that BEAUTY!!!!! :occasion14:
 

Amazing coin! BIG congratulations!
 

That is really nice. Congrats.
 

Awesome find!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!
 

Wow nice find. The detail on it is fairly good as well. Congrats.
 

Welcome to the 1721 club! As you know I just found mine a few weeks back. Congrats!
 

Awesome!!! Congrats!!!��
 

GREAT find!!!! Congratulations!!!
 

Dang, that thing is in pretty nice shape. Way to go on a great find!!
 

Hi, wow awesome find. Congrats:occasion14:
 

She’s old, but still a beauty.
Congrats
 

That's a beauty of a coin! Huge congrats!!
 

What an awesome find! Had to make your day, maybe even your week. 2 Reales don’t pop out very often and yours is in great shape. Congrats!
 

What a great find. Congrats on that old Spanish silver.
 

Nice and even nicer that the Pistareens found in New England are almost always whole
 

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