298 Year Old Spanish Silver!

[Silvermonkey]

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.


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.


Thanks for taking a look. Happy Memorial Day to everyone!
Scott

 

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[Rum Tide]

Very nice!

...at first I thought a giant coin was laying on a pencil in the photos

 

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[Eastcoasthunter21]

Sweet find congratulations hh gl

 

[WVScavenger]

Me too...

 

[Javadroid]

Very nice indeed, mate - congrats to you on a very precious find!

 

[K. FLEMING]

That is a sweet find.

 

[Inspector]

Excellent save, looks great, big congrats

 

[WVScavenger]

By the way, since my 1721 was cut, I bought a whole one to display with it. Should be here any day now...

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet old silver, congrats!

 

[lairmo]

Congrats on the great Spanish coin!!!

 

[xr7ator]

Awesome!

 

[A2coins]

Scooooottt wow that is freakin nice wouldnt ruin it but that would make a sick neckless

 

[Mackaydon]

Great save !
Mint: Cuenca, Spain
Assayer: Juan Jose Garcia Caballero
Don........

 

[basque-man]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Thanks very much for the nice comments everyone! This was my second ever Spanish real, and I can't adequately express my excitement. Thanks to Don "Mackaydon" for identifying the mint and the assayer. And to Tommy's "A2coins" comment...I would agree, it would make a fantastic necklace...but I think I will keep it " as is" for now, and give it a place of honor in my display case. Happy Hunting all!
Scott.

 

[Ahab8]

Fantastic early silver my friend. Very happy to see you nail your oldest. You deserve it as I know you put the time in

 

[Hughett]

Did you say “second”? You are now cut off. You need to save some for the others. You can dig another after you dig 400 pull-tabs, 25 Coke cans, and 65 nails.
That is awesome and I’m so jealous!

 

[xcopperstax]

What a beauty! Think about this: The person or people who used that coin could have possibly been alive and fought in king Philips war time period! Great piece of history and so cool to know it probably came out of somewhere in Ma! I've found 1 half reale and I love it. I very much hope to find more Spanish silver. It's the pinnacle of awesome in my opinion!

 

[peruna]

and that, my friends, didn't suck at all!

Nice job Silvermonkey....check your heart rate after your next one!

 

[Sooper Dave]

Killer find, Congrats!

 

[Subterranean]

Absolutely gorgeous, congrats! Sub