🥇 BANNER I DID IT!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!

Truth

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I drove to NOLA and the parks were filled with people nobody’s worring about the virus apparently, so I drive along the bayou and came across a grassy field that I’ve driven pass a thousand times but it was just cut so I stopped. I was surprised to see a lot of iron square nails, white shells and brick in the clay. It was hard digging but what the hell. My first find was a brass thing I thought interesting then 1897 V nickel very interesting I was freaking out. Then I found a 1926 buffalo. So I came across more iron square nails which were falsing in the low 20’s. Then I hit a spot where it was falsing all over the place but this one had some 30’s mixed in there. Thank God I dig everything. After pulling out about eight square nails I saw what looked like a Mardi Gras doubloon and then i picked it up and looked and fell on my back laughing like a school girl. Here it is in all it’s glory a 1809 8 reales in flawless condition. Unbelievable day to break my 3 month curse. Thank you for sharing in my glory. IMG_0224.webp IMG_0225.webpIMG_0230.webpIMG_0229.webpIMG_0228.webp60599995304__1846604D-8761-496F-9B36-69CE676643C9.webp60599994251__A520FC8D-E5A5-4E7D-B391-F70C2061A714.webpIMG_0226.webp
 

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I bet that was the last thing you expected to find when you left the house. Good thing you checked that field out.
Congrats on a beautiful coin :thumbsup:
 

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Wooo hooo !! That's a nice one truth....congrats buddy !!
 

Wow Truth you keep slowly adding up the stellar finds, you are an icon in persistence we all should strive to emulate! That reale is in super shape, huge congratulations.

I had a mental video playing in my head of you laying on your back in a field kicking your legs and giggling like a school girl while gazing upward into your outstretched hand at that beauty, meanwhile cars are passing by on the nearby highway the occupants looking over wondering wth.[emoji23]
 

SWEET!! The king of the Reale series...congratulations Truth that high we get must have kept a smile on your face until... well it’s probably still there lol... My second silver dollar (first Morgan) I dug last year was mixed in with a TON of iron, but it had that little high chirp mixed in and I was more than glad I went after it, pulling old iron nails, pins etc. before homing in on silver...GREAT save! Ddf.
 

Hope you asked for permission to hunt first. If so congrats on the awesome find!
 

Good thing I got extra toilet paper, cuz I just soiled myself.
Congratulations on your soon-to-be Banner find!
 

Although the coin seems "bent"... or perhaps that is just photo... the detail is remarkable.

Stellar Truth... Well done... great score.

Definitely hit that spot hard.

It’s the picture
 

Wow Truth you keep slowly adding up the stellar finds, you are an icon in persistence we all should strive to emulate! That reale is in super shape, huge congratulations.

I had a mental video playing in my head of you laying on your back in a field kicking your legs and giggling like a school girl while gazing upward into your outstretched hand at that beauty, meanwhile cars are passing by on the nearby highway the occupants looking over wondering wth.[emoji23]

Hey ecmo it was a 45 minute ride home and I didn’t even realize I didn’t have the radio on the whole top lol
 

SWEET!! The king of the Reale series...congratulations Truth that high we get must have kept a smile on your face until... well it’s probably still there lol... My second silver dollar (first Morgan) I dug last year was mixed in with a TON of iron, but it had that little high chirp mixed in and I was more than glad I went after it, pulling old iron nails, pins etc. before homing in on silver...GREAT save! Ddf.

Hey buddy it’s my second 8 realeIMG_1997.webpAdjustments.webp Bit this one is cherry [emoji523]
 

I bet that was the last thing you expected to find when you left the house. Good thing you checked that field out.
Congrats on a beautiful coin :thumbsup:

Thanks Steve a dream came true
 

WOW. NOLA has so much history. Last time I was there I found a gold ring, a chicken feed token, a few wheaties, and a .38 special just mud larking.

If you ever come back you have a swinging partner [emoji1360]
 

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