298 Year Old Spanish Silver!

Silvermonkey

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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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Terry Soloman

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SultansOfSwing

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Very very nice!
 

Tpmetal

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Awesome! Congrats
 

Squirrel322

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

mindcrime1988

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

ColonialDude

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

Digger RJ

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Awesome!!! Congrats!!!��
 

Brendan75

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Hi, wow awesome find. Congrats:occasion14:
 

Relicific

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She’s old, but still a beauty.
Congrats
 

pa-dirt_nc-sand

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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!
 

toasted

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

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