Heres some of my pre-1800 silver

[Bill D. (VA)]

Here's some of my pre-1800 silver

The first pic was taken a little over 2 years ago right after I dug my 100th colonial silver coin. Since then I've added another 20-25 more, but they've been somewhat separated into different displays so its difficult to get a group shot now. The 2nd pic shows my 1500s hammered coins which all came from that one site, as many of you know, and the earliest of those is 1563. I enjoyed looking at everyone's coins, and hope more folks will post theirs up. HH ..... Bill

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Whoops - meant to post this under the thread below. Sorry 'bout that!

 

[capsmith]

Hey Bill D.You have some great finds there Sir.I noticed alot of cut coins do any of them match and are all spanish ?Tell us more about the site ,any history that you can share?Tks for sharing pictures.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Hey Bill D.You have some great finds there Sir.I noticed alot of cut coins do any of them match and are all spanish ?Tell us more about the site ,any history that you can share?Tks for sharing pictures.

Capsmith - these are coins that I've found at a large number of colonial sites I've hunted over the last 15 years here in southeast VA. As far as I recall, all the cut coins are all spanish with the exception of one that's part of a pine tree shilling. And the only match I have is shown below. These 2 pieces were found last winter as part of a random early coin spill that included 9 silvers and 8 coppers dating between the mid 1700s and the late 1820s. Thanks for asking.

 

[capsmith]

Thanks for the reply.I have found about 20 spanish coins and cut coins.Minted in Mexico.

 

[GAOldsman]

Way cool Bill Some great finds there, I mean ALL great finds there

Scot

 

[Brian C.]

It looks like you have some great older sites, thanks for sharing. HH

 

[GTK96]

You aren't bill dennison are you? Crazy stuff either way, i can't find crap anywhere in SE VA...

 

[Steve in PA]

Bill, you are the King of Colonial silver!!

I am only about 75 pieces behind you and getting further behind every year!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

You aren't bill dennison are you? Crazy stuff either way, i can't find crap anywhere in SE VA...

Nope - I'm not that Bill D. You must not be looking in the right places as there's no better spot to relic hunt than SE VA, especially for colonial artifacts. Start getting into the research aspect of things and you'll do just fine. Good luck!

 

[GTK96]

Thanks, its kinda weird being 15 and looking for stuff but i guess there are worse things i could be doing...just wish i could find a coin once in a while...

 

[leprechaun]

Thats the most unbelieveable silver collection I've ever seen.

 

[Ironman!]

Very awesome Bill! I remember when you found your 100th!! Keep up the hunt and showing us your great recoveries, especially the Spanish silver!!! Though I don't live out East, I have you matched in the older type silver coin count (from what is available per time period this area was settled), but mine are of the Seated Liberty type!!!!

Congrats again Bill on a remarkable and very awesome achievement! Looking for more "eye candy" posted from you in the future!!

IM

 

[English Bob.]

Wow! Lovely selection of Hammered and Silver coins there mate.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Very awesome Bill! I remember when you found your 100th!! Keep up the hunt and showing us your great recoveries, especially the Spanish silver!!! Though I don't live out East, I have you matched in the older type silver coin count (from what is available per time period this area was settled), but mine are of the Seated Liberty type!!!!

Congrats again Bill on a remarkable and very awesome achievement! Looking for more "eye candy" posted from you in the future!!

IM

Thank you Ironman for the kind remarks. Please know that I've been following your exploits for some time as well. You definitely have an awesome collection of SL silver. I've actually found very few of those myself (maybe 20-25). I'm also in awe of your gold coins. I've dug two $1 gold coins from the 1840s/50s in CW camps here, but would love to dig one of the larger denominations like yours. But colonial gold would be the holy grail for me. Thanks again, and good luck to you ..... Bill

 

[bigtim1973]

Man, I only dream of finding those kind of coins!!!! What a very impressive collection of finds!!!! Very neat!!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Tim