Hi Ho Silver! Capped Bust, Seated, Spanish Colonial MINT ERROR and more!

West Jersey Detecting · Apr 2, 2019

Those that know me know that I don't bounce around a lot. I find one productive site and I pound it and pound it until I'm convinced it's not worth my time. Then I'll move on, only to return at some later date and try again. Sometimes I let years go by before I return to a once productive site.

Such was the case for this site, which I originally got permission at 5 years ago and have been detecting since . My recent hunt at this site a few months back produced nothing, and I was getting ready to move on. But something kept drawing me back, so I ended up there again back a few weekends ago and had a great day with the Seated Quarter, an 1832 Capped Bust half dime and an early Merc.

Needless to say I was anxious to return at my next opportunity, which was this past weekend. I did find a few tombac buttons and then a shallow penny signal, which turned out to be Spanish, dated 1779! Not too much time later I got another similar signal and this time I was hopeful for another Spanish, and it was! I wasn't expecting it to clean up nearly as nice as it did, and by far is the nicest Spanish I've ever dug. And then when looking at the photo, I noticed the brockage error! The mirror image of the reverse of the coin stamped onto the obverse!

The Victoria 3 Pence was found a few months back. - A schoolyard find that totally surprised me!

Thanks for looking!