Hello amigos, just wanted to share with you my humble find 
I was detecting very early in the morning this sunday here in Spain, I'm underwater hunter but the waves were crazy so I decided to stay at the shore on the low tide. Suddenly I found a quite high and deep tone and I decide to dig it. I was not expecting nothing good, maybe an old coin or a piece of aluminium or whatever. When it was finally out I see this tinny beeeeeeauty!
It tourned out to be half Spanish Real macuquina from the end of XVI century! It had a dark purpelish patina that now I'm not sure if it was good idea to clean, but whatever, I LOVE to see the shine of the old silver!
Blows my mind thinking that it was there at the beach 400+ years and imagening how it arrived there, who were the owners of that, what was payed with it.. and I think this is one of the reasons why our hobby is so beautyful. I feel absolutely blessed to have a little piece of history like that in my hands.
Hope you liked, greatings from the Mediterranean!
I was detecting very early in the morning this sunday here in Spain, I'm underwater hunter but the waves were crazy so I decided to stay at the shore on the low tide. Suddenly I found a quite high and deep tone and I decide to dig it. I was not expecting nothing good, maybe an old coin or a piece of aluminium or whatever. When it was finally out I see this tinny beeeeeeauty!
It tourned out to be half Spanish Real macuquina from the end of XVI century! It had a dark purpelish patina that now I'm not sure if it was good idea to clean, but whatever, I LOVE to see the shine of the old silver!Blows my mind thinking that it was there at the beach 400+ years and imagening how it arrived there, who were the owners of that, what was payed with it.. and I think this is one of the reasons why our hobby is so beautyful. I feel absolutely blessed to have a little piece of history like that in my hands.
Hope you liked, greatings from the Mediterranean!
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