Dejected by Spanish silver

[Joe-Dirt]

So me and 2 buddy’s went to our king Phillips war permission today, we weren’t finding much at first, buttons, musket balls, bell fragments, IHP’s and the usual farm field crappola. I was hunting a long a tree line, minding my own business when I hear someone shouting at me, I looked up and saw my two buddy’s waving their arms at me sooooooooo I started walking over to see what they found. My buddy started stammering saying something I couldn’t understand so I looked in his hand and saw what he just found. Not to spoil the story, I spent the rest of the day looking for another. I found a 1782 Reale and I was disappointed ( just for a second) but a big congrats to him for finding a hard to find coin in any condition. I will picture my crappola first and then his beautiful find.

 

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[xr7ator]

Oh man...AMAZING. Can't win 'em all, Joe. My oldest coin this year is over a 100 years newer. (1898 IHP) Some perspective for you, I guess.

 

[ironhorse]

1700s US silver is amazing to see just out of the ground and that one is a looker! Great site you and your buds got going!

 

[mikefromIllinois]

Tell your buddy congrats on 1700's american silver.

 

[JeffInMass]

Yeah, I guess a Spanish silver would fall short of that one- holy crap- Congratulate him for me please!

 

[Noah_D]

If that was your find I'd be voting banner! You know it's a good site when you are disappointed to find a Spanish haha. It's been quite a while since I've heard of anyone digging an early American silver like that...

 

[Centsless Detecting]

oh shucks 18c silver... coingrats

 

[ToddsPoint]

Can we get some better pics of that beauty Bob? Fantastic find. Gary

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A FANTASTIC find !

 

[Calabash Digger]

Nice!

 

[vpone]

So me and 2 buddy’s went to our king Phillips war permission today, we weren’t finding much at first, buttons, musket balls, bell fragments, IHP’s and the usual farm field crappola. I was hunting a long a tree line, minding my own business when I hear someone shouting at me, I looked up and saw my two buddy’s waving their arms at me sooooooooo I started walking over to see what they found. My buddy started stammering saying something I couldn’t understand so I looked in his hand and saw what he just found. Not to spoil the story, I spent the rest of the day looking for another. I found a 1782 Reale and I was disappointed ( just for a second) but a big congrats to him for finding a hard to find coin in any condition. I will picture my crappola first and then his beautiful find.

wow just beautiful !!!

vp

 

[Steve in PA]

Sweet! At least you got to touch it
However far away you were from him when he dug it is probably as close as you will ever get to digging one
Congrats on the half real

 

[jewelerguy]

OMG that's incredible

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Can we get some better pics of that beauty Bob? Fantastic find. Gary

I’ll post some he put on Facebook. Anyone know what gets vomit off of boots??

 

[Trezurehunter]

I would just die on the spot ! Tell him congrats on a great coin.

 

[JerV3]

Wow,

Big congrats to your buddy.

Yeah that one would be hard to let go.

Yours is out there man. You guys have some early history.

Jer

 

[Steve in PA]

This article from the 11-12-97 issue of Coin World explains why it is so hard to find early US silver or gold coins. Right click on the article, then open in New Private Window and you can enlarge it.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

This article from the 11-12-97 issue of Coin World explains why it is so hard to find early US silver or gold coins. Right click on the article, then open in New Private Window and you can enlarge it.

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This explains a lot, thanks for posting

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Here’s a pic of my under weight disappointment cleaned up. I didn’t bend it (;

 

[TheCoinKid]

Hard to determine the denomination due to lack of scale. Half dime or dime? In any event, extremely low mintage. Big congrats to your buddy!