First Spanish Reale !!!!!!

[treasurecoasteric]

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I have been somewhat hesitant about posting finds, but just have to share this one. Last weekend while detecting a FL Treasure Coast area beach I noticed larger shells and rocks grouping towards the previous high tide line. I know that millions of pounds of sand had recently been dumped on our beaches, so I figured they had been washed up by waves. I figured that maybe some goodies had been washed up too. I started working the tide line with my M6. I had the Whites 950 Eclipse coil on it with no discrimination and the sensitivity at +1 ..................toggle was in "Beach" mode of course. I dug some pull tabs, change, etc and then I got a high tone. It repeated in every direction and my VDI indicated it was a sliver dollar. Of course I figured it was a beer can, but I dig EVERYTHING. About 7-8" down I nailed an in encrusted piece of crud, but when I waved it by my coil I got a 91 on my VDI. I wiped away what I could in the salt water and when I realized what I had I almost fell over. After about 12 hours+ in electrolysis as well a good cleaning with Colgate toothpaste (great for silver) I had a beautiful early 1600's 8 Reale weighing in at 26.7 grams

 

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[Diggin Dave]

Wow beautiful find, Congrats!! That's on my bucket list...still looking.

 

[MickeyMaguire]

Colgate... bold move. Nice find. The cleanup looks very good.

 

[Diver_Down]

Congratulations, Eric. Any chance you can take better photos - front and back?

 

[lost items recovery]

Awesome! Congratulations.

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[lorraine]

Fantastic find!

I want to find one of those!

Lorraine

 

[GatorBoy]

Yes please take some photos that aren't cutting off the bottom and one of each side would be great.
I've seen a lot of reales from the Treasure Coast I'm a lifelong resident that is one rare piece you have there.
Early 1600s would be consistent with the green cabin wreck over by Turtle Trail. And not the rest of the 1715 fleet.
Surely you have some before photos of your first reale find please post those too.
That looks exactly like an Atocha coin.. (1622)
A lot of dynamics goes into where coins like that wind up on a beach.. for a heavy eight like that to wind up high on replenishment sand in a shell line is simply unheard of. something out of the ordinary must have happened.
I personally found several very underweight half reales that do happen to get washed up with the shells on occasion but not heavy(dense) things like that and also taking into account that one does not look like it's been tumbling around in the ocean very much are usually the result of major erosion breaching the dune area and not from being washed up.... It would take some very heavy wave action to accomplish that.. Coins present very little surface area to the water they tend to move in predictable ways... It would be like finding a heavy gold class ring washed up with the shells.... we just have not had that kind of thing for a long time... And you would absolutely not find a piece like that in the same area you're finding pull tabs

 

[Mackaydon]

Nice save. I, too, look forward to seeing full front and back pics.
Don....

 

[Mi$terG]

Unbelievable. What a great find. Congrats on some amazing treasure!

 

[Trent67]

Congrats!! More pics!!

 

[treasurecoasteric]

The coin was sold on Wed, but I have a couple of other pics of me holding it. There have been 60,000 - 80,000 tides, 800-1,000 hurricanes and millions of tides since those ships went down. Anything could end up anywhere. 1715 coins have been found as far north as Daytona. Yes - both the Green Cabin wreck and more unlikely, the Atocha has been mentioned as the coin's possible sources.

 

[GatorBoy]

The Atocha is in the keys.

 

[jws17]

Great find!! Congrats!!

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't know why people would do this. That's all I'm going to say.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats!
If you think it's a silver target flip the switch forward the tone would be very high.

 

[treasurecoasteric]

"Gator Boy" not really sure what your agenda is here, but if are insinuating that I didn't find it, I did.

The fact that there are no "Dynamics" to explain why that coin ended up where it did, could be because you just don't understand the ocean and the beach as well as you think that you do. Actually, that day I checked your blog and you indicated that conditions were not good ..... interesting....what "Dynamics" came into play when you made that assumption? So basically where you live the laws of physics don't apply? 300-400 years of tides, hurricanes, tropical storms and monster waves could move a ONE OUNCE coin a few hundred miles? Yes I am aware that the Atocha is in the keys .... My cat knows that too. Maybe it's from another ship that sank closer to us from that era ....who knows? The bottom line is that I put my coil over a target and got a solid signal and dug. Just because this is beyond your comprehension, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Like many other great hunters before me, I am done with this forum crap. You go run your little "Treasure Coast Report" or whatever the heck it is called and I'll actually hunt the beach and find things.

Well guess what buddy.....Capt Carl Fismer liked it and didn't have any reservations regarding it's origin or resting place. The fact that you actually believe that coins and pulltabs can not be found on the same beach, just goes to show your lack of intellect and that you are basically a miserable person who takes pleasure in ...... well basically doing nothing useful.

Yes please take some photos that aren't cutting off the bottom and one of each side would be great.
I've seen a lot of reales from the Treasure Coast I'm a lifelong resident that is one rare piece you have there.
Early 1600s would be consistent with the green cabin wreck over by Turtle Trail. And not the rest of the 1715 fleet.
Surely you have some before photos of your first reale find please post those too.
That looks exactly like an Atocha coin.. (1622)
A lot of dynamics goes into where coins like that wind up on a beach.. for a heavy eight like that to wind up high on replenishment sand in a shell line is simply unheard of. something out of the ordinary must have happened.
I personally found several very underweight half reales that do happen to get washed up with the shells on occasion but not heavy(dense) things like that and also taking into account that one does not look like it's been tumbling around in the ocean very much are usually the result of major erosion breaching the dune area and not from being washed up.... It would take some very heavy wave action to accomplish that.. Coins present very little surface area to the water they tend to move in predictable ways... It would be like finding a heavy gold class ring washed up with the shells.... we just have not had that kind of thing for a long time... And you would absolutely not find a piece like that in the same area you're finding pull tabs

 

[hubcap76]

Been working long weeks with extra long days, hope everyone is well, nice recovery indeed. And I may be mistaken but I am fairly certain that gator is not the beach report blog fella.

 

[KEYSHUNTER]

got me munching at the bit ,photos please of coin

 

[slider66]

Very nice. Congrats! I walk the Treasure Coast almost daily. The real is on the top of my list. I would love to see more pictures.

 

[ctbob]

great find, congrats