Late 1820s pocket spill find - 2 Bust Halves and 2 Spanish Silver

[Don in SJ]

This morning I wanted to do a hunt around the perimeter area of the homestead I got the 5 coppers at last week but the underbrush is really filling out now so I had to keep a bit closer to the actual homestead, where less underbrush was. I was hunting less than 15 minutes, and had recovered some pewter and brass pieces of unknowns when all of a sudden my XS screamed Silver to me!

I forgot my camera of course, but maybe that was the good luck I needed for this find. To my amazement the first thing I saw out of the hole was a big hunk of silver coin!

I picked it up and saw part of the Bust so I knew I had a Bust Half Dollar, I rechecked the hole with the probe and another coin was in there. Dug down the one side a bit and out pops the second Bust Half Dollar, this one completely coated but I knew what it was thanks to seeing the first one.

Now I stood up and rescanned the hole and off to the left side it was indicating yet a third coin! I enlarged the opening and out comes a thin smaller silver, which at first I was hoping to be a bust quarter but knew by the thinness it was going to be a Spanish Real. Just was not sure till I got home and checked but it was a One Real.....

Thinking wow, 3 silver in one hole, that never happened before, in fact Bust Half never happened before, but I did check the hole one more time and got a faint somewhat good coin type reading, gouged out the remaining dirt with my hand and the coin was now in the pile. A small one, a Half Real.




So 4 Silvers in one hole, a first for me for something so old and so big, I was without a doubt thrilled to see this today. I thought of quitting right away to save the site for another hunt with my son and decided to slowly work my way back to the truck.

Just as I passed the area where my son got his 1794 Large Cent last week, I got a funky possible coin/iron reading. I noticed it was next to a fallen log that I had dug a hole right next to this signal last week and I remember it being a piece of iron pot. But today, maybe because of the wet ground, I heard coin and out pops a copper!


I had no idea what the copper was, I could tell it seen better days, but after cleaning it did show a nice date of 1722 and some of NIA from Brittania, so I knew I had a 1722 King George I Halfpenny. Right next to it was a button like relic, not sure if it is a button that was modified or was used for something else.


Overall, what a great hunt of less than one hour duration, April 2010, without a doubt was a winner for me.

Finds for the day, a very beautiful 1826 Bust Half Dollar


A very nice 1827 Bust Half Dollar

A decent 1782 Spanish One Real

A heavily worn 1784? Spanish Half Real

Heavily worn and abused 1722 King George I Halfpenny

And a large possible button modified with two holes after shank sheared off, or perhaps something else


Don

 

[Ken C]

I know this is an old post, but I had to just reply with how awesome it is. Two bust halves and reales....wow!! Congrats (many years later lol).

 

[scruggs]

SPECTACULAR KEEPERS!!!

 

[washingtonian]

Umm wow! Holy crap. I either never saw this when it was originally posted it or forgot it. That would be the find of a lifetime for me.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratulations on the killer finds!

Those two Cap bust 1/2's are in great condition!

 

[against the wind]

Some posts are really worth bringing back to life.
Inspirational and Incredible.
Congratulations

 

[HighVDI]

Yeah.......these are those finds that keep us swinging that coil! Congratulations, even if this is old, lol