day 4: Reale fun playing in the mud

[port ewen ace]

not a single visible anything, bigger than qtr. smaller than a half-- so must be a 2 or 4 Reale, weighs 5.6 G., another first, for what it's worth: MELT:-(. back again today. FMERG added to his pile of silver plus a cool token

 

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[Mackaydon]

Great saves !!
The 'reales' is an underweight two reales coin; about 6.75g would be its 'standard' (original) weight.
Don......

 

[Loco-Digger]

Nice digs, does that place every dry up (water I mean) not the cool finds.

 

[fmerg]

the blank silver coin you dug is more then likely a:
GEORGE VI SHILLING
1937-1948
George VI Shilling
1937-1947 .500 Silver, 5.6 grams, 23mm Diameter.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I personally would never consider melting a worn colonial silver coin down. Even with no detail, you know what it was. What would its melt value be? A dollar or less? Surely the history is worth more than that.

Nice finds,

Buck

 

[terpfan]

the blank silver coin you dug is more then likely a:
GEORGE VI SHILLING
1937-1948
George VI Shilling
1937-1947 .500 Silver, 5.6 grams, 23mm Diameter.

Fmerg, I really think its a much older coin, as I don't recall ever seeing a holed twentieth century coin posted. That coin certainly looks colonial. My guess is that it was lost in the early-to-mid 1800s after 50+ years in circulation. I think Don nailed it when he identified it as a worn 2 reale. What a beautiful old piece of history.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[sutphin]

THEY MAY BE ROUGH BUT THEY TELL A STORY .....

 

[BigWaveDave]

Yea, theres no way that is a WW2 era coin... more like Rev. war era.

great digs!

 

[port ewen ace]

my plan is to offer it on Ebay for someone who will give it a new home. my thrill comes on one knee at the hole when the glory is freed from oblivion

 

[against the wind]

Whatever that silver blank is,,, I would enjoy digging it,, WTG