Got my best coin back today. whatcha think....

[ugotit22]

Hey guys
When i started out detecting 2 yrs ago one of my dreams was spanish silver. I felt that if i got a piece of 8, i would be in a way getting a piece of history like no other. Dont get me wrong coppers are awesome, but theres something about colonial silver thats just another level. Well low and behold in only my third month of detecting i found a 1/2 reale. I didnt want to just throw it in with my collection so a few months ago i talked with my local jewler. We both decided to set the coin in a custom silver ring. Now everytime a look down at my hand i can think of that day, and remember why i love this hobby so much.
thanks for lookin
keith
ps it was a 1797 1/2 r and i found it in 2007 thats why i put those dates on the side.

 

[Finman]

Awesome coin and what a Beautiful ring it made!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

HH Joe

 

[ugotit22]

congrats

Made in Madrid by the beside of M with crown on top

im almost sure its mexico city.

 

[Deno]

Congrats on the find. The ring is cool, you are as ate up as the rest of us with this hobby.

 

[klava]

Awesome man!!!! Congrats on the find and very cool of you to find such a great way to be able to display it. The price seems very reasonable. You now have a custom ring different from anything else in the world. Not only that but there is such history associated with it. Not only its history but your history with it. I too want one. i leave for the beach tomorrow for a week and a fellow TNeTer is taking me to a site he has found multiple reales at. I pray i can take a page from your book and have a ring for myself.

Wear it proudly bro, congrats!!!
-K

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

cool ring! 8)

 

[mpostma]

Very Cool! Nicely done, both the finding and the creative idea for mounting it in a great ring!
Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us!

Congrats again!

Good Luck,
Mark

 

[ugotit22]

Awesome man!!!! Congrats on the find and very cool of you to find such a great way to be able to display it. The price seems very reasonable. You now have a custom ring different from anything else in the world. Not only that but there is such history associated with it. Not only its history but your history with it. I too want one. i leave for the beach tomorrow for a week and a fellow TNeTer is taking me to a site he has found multiple reales at. I pray i can take a page from your book and have a ring for myself.

Wear it proudly bro, congrats!!!
-K

really hope you get one. good luck bro

 

[RiverRat3]

It was a very creative idea with including the coin in the ring. It will be something you could hand down generation to generation.

 

[Bruce Ct]

I saw this ring last Sunday - BEAUTIFUL job and the coin is totally preserved - not a mark on it!
Bruce in Ct

 

[ugotit22]

I saw this ring last Sunday - BEAUTIFUL job and the coin is totally preserved - not a mark on it!
Bruce in Ct

bruce now all we have to do is get you to set one of yours. How many 1/2 reales was it last yr, like 4. lucky bastard lol

 

[Bruce Ct]

No, I only found 3 last year (including the one you were standing on top of in the cornfield)
Bruce Ct

 

[silverfreak]

SWEET

 

[ringfinder]

Fantastic find and I really like what you did with your find. That ring looks Great!!

HH, Ringfinder

 

[kdismuke1]

AWSOME RING. CONGRATS.

 

[pronghorn]

I love it

Hope you don't mind if I do that with a 1916 D Merc

Now all I have to do is find a 1916 D Merc

 

[Pipster]

That is a great ring now get a merc set for your merc magnet