First Silver- 216 years old!!

[shanegalang]

Was back on a CW battle site today that has been producing nice round balls, three ringers and shell fragments. Ran into an area with a lot of nails and got a good coin signal. Dug my first silver ever, a 1796 Mexican Republic 1/2 Reales coin. These were minted from 1792-1808. It can be found in the World Coin Gallery, km72. My hunting buddy Buckleboy was not with me today but I immediately gave him a call. He has insisted in the past that my first silver would not be something from the 40s or 50s. Little did I know it would be from another century! Great start for 2012! I made some corrections. The coin is a 1/2 reale. The World Coin Gallery has some mistakes.

 

[70monte68]

Very nice find!

 

[Papa Bear]

WTG! Good Job!

 

[romeo-1]

That's a good one to break onto the silver club!

 

[Marchas45]

Awesome and Congrats great silver. If you found it among some nails you may have stumbled upon the remains of the paymasters shack.

 

[birdman]

Fantastic start to the new year! Awesome reale.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Man, that is GREAT! I wish I'd been there to see the look on your face.

Sounds from your description on the phone to me that you dug a Gardiner bullet out there too, along with the usual shell fragments and other bullets. That's a great find too!

Killer day for you today--and I can't wait to get back there and dig the heck out of that site. I knew it'd just be a matter of time for that property to cough up something good.

Large Cent is next, buddy.

Cheers,

Buck

 

[Wldbil]

If you were going to find a first silver, that is the way to do it... Congrats

 

[joeyfresh]

Imagine the stories that coin could tell. Congrats

 

[BuckleBoy]

Add some of those relic photos to the post! Cmon!

I wanna see the CW stuff too.

 

[shanegalang]

" dug a Gardiner bullet out there too, along with the usual shell fragments and other bullets.

 

[VOL1266-X]

Congrats Shane. You have a great teacher and that's only the first of great finds to come from that site. You beat me one year as the first Reale I dug was 1797 in Confederate lines too. HH, Quindy.

 

[nova treasure]

finding your first 18th century silver and than Confederate lead should definetly keep your goals high.

Congrats and can hardly wait to see what's next from that site.

Bill

 

[Metal Magnet]

man, now that is the way to get your first silver. geesh.

 

[jewelerguy]

sweet! congrats

 

[olekyground]

I would say so!! Excellent day! Hope your year is filled with such surprises in the ground!!

 

[River Rat]

Wow, Shane!! Super sweet find for you. CONGRATS!

 

[Roland58]

Great find! I'm still trying to find something older than myself......

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Very Awesome!!

 

[GaRebel1861]

Very nice! I've dug one but the date was rubbed off of it.