298 Year Old Spanish Silver!

Silvermonkey · May 22, 2019

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

Rum Tide · May 23, 2019

Very nice!

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

Eastcoasthunter21 · May 23, 2019

Sweet find congratulations hh gl

WVScavenger · May 23, 2019

Me too...

Javadroid · May 23, 2019

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

K. FLEMING · May 23, 2019

That is a sweet find.

Inspector · May 23, 2019

Excellent save, looks great, big congrats

WVScavenger · May 23, 2019

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 · May 23, 2019

Sweet old silver, congrats! :icon_thumleft:

lairmo · May 23, 2019

Congrats on the great Spanish coin!!!

xr7ator · May 23, 2019

Awesome!

A2coins · May 23, 2019

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

Mackaydon · May 23, 2019

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

basque-man · May 23, 2019

Beautiful!!!!!!!! :occasion14:

Silvermonkey · May 24, 2019

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 · May 24, 2019

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 · May 24, 2019

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 · May 24, 2019

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!