My Best Find of the Year...Big Colonial Silver!!

[romeo-1]

Ok, just got back in from the field. I had exactly 90 minutes this afternoon to detect while Little Romeo-1 had his afternoon nap. I couldn't go far so I hit the site right beside my house. I've hunted this site for years and it always seems to produce. This is the site where Iron Horse and I spent a day and where I found the cut Spanish 2 reale. I told my wife that I would be home as soon as I found "old silver" or 4:30...whatever came first. Well, I was home at 4:00! I was roaming around the field with only a French sized musketball and a harness buckle to show for when I decided to crank up the discrimination. I just cranked it as hot as it would go without driving me insane and this was the target I hit.

I hate posting before I know exactly what I've found but it is a 1722 French Sol silver! I'm not sure of the exact denomination but it is much larger than the previous French silvers I've found. I'm sure IronPatch can tell me...bigger than a US quarter.

Without a doubt my find of the year!

 

[70monte68]

Fantastic find!!!

 

[Iron Patch]

It doesn't get much better than that for dug Colonial French silver!

1/3 ECU (little over 8 grams - .917 silver) minted in Tours, France. A little value too being in nice condition.

 

[shaun7]

That's nice

 

[romeo-1]

It doesn't get much better then that for French silver!

1/3 ECU (little over 8 grams - .917 silver) minted in Tours, France. A little value too being in nice condition.

Sweet! Thanks for the ID. I was just commenting in your thread earlier today how it's been kind of blah due to lack of time...and this was waiting for me within a stone's throw of my front door. Something to be said for hunting old grounds with different detector settings!

This was deep as well...probably 10 inches. I almost didn't dig because it wasn't really a consistent signal...may have been on it's side.

 

[worldtalker]

Romeo1, Just goes to show ya,never know what your gonna find!!! That is a real NICE coin. God Bless HH Chris

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Man Romeo....Jackpot Dude.

 

[Kirk PA]

It looks like today was the Colonial digging day. Great find!

Kirk

 

[Steve in PA]

Excellent colonial silver recovery!

 

[fistfulladirt]

That would make my career! Congrats to you!

 

[dwayne sueno]

holy cow!
that's ridiculous.
that's new-pair-of-pants ridiculous.
sweet silver.

 

[TennPenny]

Very nice!

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Great find ----------------save!

 

[CRUSADER]

Thats a nice looking silver

 

[Deepdiger60]

That is a great looking old silver good find !! Jim

 

[jgas]

Thats suckers in great condition! Wow, nice score jgas

 

[HuntNdig]

absolutely incredible!!

 

[AGBlex]

awesome big silver that sucker is old!

 

[ironhorse]

it,s nice to know I had a shot at that one, wow, nice old coin buddy!

ps I'm coming back for it's mate

 

[Sniffy]

That thing is beautiful!