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FINALLY! My first Spanish silver cob from a beach hunt

TomW244

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I took a day off from work and went to several beaches to enjoy a day of detecting. I was encouraged when the very first target I hit was a beautiful tungsten carbide ring (see pics below), but the hunt quickly went dead after that. I spent about four hours detecting and found a lot of the usual - plenty of clad, pull tabs, and pieces of aluminum cans.

Tungsten Ring

Tungsten Carbide Ring.webp

After the first beach I hit went dead, I moved to another. My third target (following a matchbox car and a quarter) was definitely one of my beach bucket-listers - a Spanish silver cob coin!!! I cleaned it up a bit using methods learned from another Tnet user and was very happy with the result.

Now I need some help from you Spanish coin experts - what is the age range of this coin and where was it minted? Thanks for looking and thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Cob Obverse Pre-cleaning.webp
Cob Obverse Cleaned.webp
Cob Reverse Pre-cleaning.webp
Cob Reverse Cleaned.webp
 
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Minted in Mexico from about 1690 to 1730. Has 3 fleur de leis of Valois supposed on the front of the shield, and looks like a 1715 fleet type coin.
 
I love Spanish Silver. Great find

I took a day off from work and went to several beaches to enjoy a day of detecting. I was encouraged when the very first target I hit was a beautiful tungsten carbide ring (see pics below), but the hunt quickly went dead after that. I spent about four hours detecting and found a lot of the usual - plenty of clad, pull tabs, and pieces of aluminum cans.

Tungsten Ring

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After the first beach I hit went dead, I moved to another. My third target (following a matchbox car and a quarter) was definitely one of my beach bucket-listers - a Spanish silver cob coin!!! I cleaned it up a bit using methods learned from another Tnet user and was very happy with the result.

Now I need some help from you Spanish coin experts - what is the age range of this coin and where was it minted? Thanks for looking and thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

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Minted in Mexico from about 1690 to 1730. Has 3 fleur de leis of Valois supposed on the front of the shield, and looks like a 1715 fleet type coin.

Thank you very much for the info!
 
Amazing find!! I vote for a banner!! Well done.
 

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