First Silver is a 1 Bit Piece (I Think)

[MSRelic]

Hunting in a pasture on our place today and found my first silver with my F75 LTD. I believe I have correctly identified it as a 1 bit piece cut from a Spanish Reale Bust Peso.

 

[Baldingboy]

Yep...I would say without a doubt. Killer find!

Great job.
Baldingboy

 

[Iron Patch]

Definitely a cut piece from a Spanish reale and the size of your coin will determine what denomination reale it is from. I have many reales but they apparently didn't cut them here so that's a good find and one I'm still looking for.

PS.. Drop the "Bust Peso."

 

[mainer]

Still looking for one of those myself. Nice dig.

 

[teleman 2525]

nice pice of silver ltds find the stuff

 

[MaineRelic]

Nice cut Spainish silver !! Congrads !! MaineRelic

 

[Treasure $ Trekkies]

Good reseach, thanks for the info and great pictures. Spot On!

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Very nice cut silver

 

[prolab69]

A small piece like that? and you were able to id it?

 

[ivan salis]

look at the lettering -- part of "hispan" and on the flipside "carolus" thats shows -- they are dead tip offs -- plus knowing that the spanish 8 reale type coinage was commonly cut into eights -- ie "pieces of eight" is a big tip off --if one knows history its not that hard to clearly see that thats a 1 reale value (1/8th) piece (called a "bit") of a of a 8 reale type of coin --2 bits is a "quarter" of the coin --4 is a half a coin

 

[Butler]

Killer "first silver" find! Most of mere mortals only find a roosie or merc the first time! Congrats!

 

[MSRelic]

Thanks to all.

I found it amongst iron nails using the 5" DD coil. It was only about 4 " down and rang out with a tone and VID in the silver dime range. Not far away I found a 1901 Indian Head yesterday. I've also found a 1918 buffalo and an 1867 shield nickel in this area of the pasture so activity here spans quite a wide time frame (actually just a blink of an eye to our European brethren ).