A very good day: Spanish in the snow!

[Silvermonkey]

Some rain and warmer temperatures in eastern Massachusetts has helped to melt some of our snow, and make detecting possible again. I was able to get out for a couple of hours this morning, and took my time re-covering the area that produced a William & Mary half penny back in January. Good sounding targets were limited, producing a bunch of lead and other less desirable items.



About an hour into the hunt, I came across a jumpy signal, with a decent VDI. About 5 inches down out popped an incredibly thin silver coin. I couldn't ID it in the field, so I packed it away, and kept detecting for another hour.



Back at home, I was able to do some gentle cleaning on the coin, and was super happy to discover it was a 1788 Carlos III half real. It looks like it was in circulation for a very long time, but at least I was able to get a positive ID



Thanks for taking a look. Good hunting to all!

 

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[Steve in PA]

Nice find Spanish silver is always welcome in my holes

 

[lenmac65]

Man am I jealous! Great find! I am heading out today for a couple hours to a spot I have searched before. Probably won't have the incredible luck you had, but it will be nice to be out again. Congrats on the awesome Spanish silver!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on that great looking Spanish silver.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice find Spanish silver is always welcome in my holes

Do you want to rephrase that? lol

 

[Digger RJ]

Awesome!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Steve in PA]

Do you want to rephrase that? lol

If I was smuggling it into the country maybe
But I think it's perfect....Spanish in da ho!!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Thanks for the nice comments everyone.
And a shout out to Steve- Spanish silver is always welcome in my holes too!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Yeah Buddy !

 

[sonofson]

lol. Someone plays snowballs, and someone makes such finds. Congrats!

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

big time gratz and thanks for posting

 

[Jeff H]

Good work Silvermonkey. Nice to see the snow melt away this week.

 

[CRUSADER]

If I was smuggling it into the country maybe
But I think it's perfect....Spanish in da ho!!
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No way, now your bringing women of ill repute into it. Maybe time to hold your tougue....lol

 

[CRUSADER]

Sorry silvermonkey for going off on a tangent, just having fun.
To bring it back in focus, it's a good find, I've only had 1 Spanish Silver from this period, wouldn't mine another.....

 

[Silvermonkey]

Crusader- If we can't have some fun, what's the point. Looking forward to getting back out there this weekend.

 

[CRUSADER]

Crusader- If we can't have some fun, what's the point. Looking forward to getting back out there this weekend.

yeap good luck.
I'm like a kid at Xmas about tomorrow

 

[JeffInMass]

More great finds from our state- Congrats! Hoping to take the wrapper off 2021 on Sunday...