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An older friend I work with recently dusted off his Metal detector after many years. He went to a local spot with some history and came into work with this. I told him I think it’s 1600’s Spanish silver. I believe it’s real but any additional information is helpful. Needless to say he has got the itch back.
 

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Fat

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I wonder how many time that’s been lost and found? It looks like it was drilled for a pendant already.
 

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Dug

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Fat said:
I wonder how many time that’s be lost and found? It looks like it was drilled for a pendant already.
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To me it actually looks like it was punched, and was done a very long time ago by the oxidation buildup inside the hole.

Quite often I find the older silver coins holed, particularly Reales. Several theories abound as to the reason such as sewn into clothes for safe keeping to superstitions of warding off evil.
 

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Blak bart

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Wow it is beautiful !!
 

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Looks like 1741 to me.
 

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bradyboy

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what im confuse about is the sliver of silver that looks like its dripping off the side
dont think ive seen that before
Brady
 

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Dug said:
To me it actually looks like it was punched, and was done a very long time ago by the oxidation buildup inside the hole.

Quite often I find the older silver coins holed, particularly Reales. Several theories abound as to the reason such as sewn into clothes for safe keeping to superstitions of warding off evil.
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there was an archaeology paper about the holes being for talismans made by slaves, and calling every holed coin recovered a ward against evil. Obviously to us this isn’t true, due to the sheer numbers of these we dig.
 

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