I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

[Ed-NH]

I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

Hi all,
It's been a very long time since I got out and did some detecting. Today I went to a property that we hunted twice this year. I arrived around noon time and knocked on Joe's door. As a thank you for letting my partner and I hunt his property I gave him a nice hand painted glass xmas ornament that I painted. I will say that doing a good deed comes back to you and here is why.

My first signal about 1 minute into my hunt was a spanish silver (still don't know what it is...) My second target was a pretty nice King George ll copper!!! This piece of the field was obviously never hunted. I found a crotal bell about 9" deep and was psyched about that. Well to make a long story short I found two more before my day was done. My take for 3.5 hours of hunting was:

2 silver thimbles
3 crotal bells (the two that are alike I have never seen that style, not sure of age)
7 buttons
1 King George ll copper hapenny
1 Spanish Silver
2 wheaties
1 1946 rosie

Thanks for looking and I am very pleased with the Spanish Silver. Does anyone know what it is? I think I see 17-- on it for a date?

Ed-

 

[tymcmurray]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

Great TRIFECTA, I me THREE crotal bells in one hunt.....Awsome!!!
Nice coins too, buddy!!!

 

[Ed-NH]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

Great TRIFECTA, I me THREE crotal bells in one hunt.....Awsome!!!
Nice coins too, buddy!!!

Yes the crotals were a surprise. I only found two in like 5 years and then I find a total of four this year alone! Do you know much about them? I have never seen any with sloped sides. They are usually round.... Also I am told that they were put on farmers sheep.

 

[phantomfinder]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

SWEET FINDS....... WTG

 

[Ed-NH]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

Without a doubt a good hunt for you. With a great mixture of relics and coins, you could not ask for a better time out swinging the detector.

Your Spanish coin, well, it is a Spanish coin and not Spanish American,(most spanish silver found by detectorist is Spanish American pieces) the Pistareens were actually debased by 20% from their Spanish American counterparts, in other words, a Pistareen was not worth as much as a Spanish American 2 Reales.

Most Colonial Spanish coins found in USA are by far made in either Mexico, Central America, or South America. Your coin is from Spain.

I reread a bit of an article on Spanish coins, and always learn something new each time, and your coin is not a Pistareen, but 1/2 of a Pistareen, othewise known as a Cross One Reales. A Pistareen is a 2 Reales, a 1 Real is 1/2 Pistareen, and a Half Real is 1/4 Pistareen.

As far as a date goes on your coin,(Phillip V) I believe it is 173_? According to the article I read, 1717-1721 are by far the most common years and the other years minted are 1722-1727; and 1730, 1733, and 1736-1738. So it is one of those dates.

Here is an excellent article to learn more about Spanish coins, especially the Pistareens.

http://data.numismatics.org/cnl/Pistareens.pdf

Don

Hi Don,

I poured over the info you sent to me and was able to identify my coin as a Ferdinand Vl 1/2 Pistareen, date 1754-55 with a possible mint mark of Madrid. You can actually see Ferdinandus Vl .D written along the outer edge of the coin. Thanks for the info!

 

[Roger Mn.]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

You got a great hunting spot there and some awsome finds.

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

Excellent Ed, glad you could get a chance to read the article and compare with your coin. I did not know that design was used by Ferdinand VI, and missed seeing his name, at least that narrows the date down to within a year of each other.

Don

 

[romeo-1]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

Nice Spanish...probably 1723...

 

[dfx willy]

Re: I hit the Trifecta today &...Spanish Silver greetings from NH!

im glad ya found the info ed heres a pic of my 1806 2 reale . willy. i found it nov 19th.