My First One Reale! 1600's Farm FINALLY Gives up old Spanish Silver!

[Shakakka]

10th time's the charm

Been hunting the hell out of this old 1670's farmstead. Large cents, old British farthings, even some amazing buttons... but so far (outside of a 1952 Washington quarter) NO SILVER!

That is... until today!

When this thing popped out of the hole I laid flat on the ground for a half minute just staring at the sky...



It's a One Reale, no? At least I think it is. I've never seen one in person, only watched other people find them on YouTube...



I don't know anything about where it was mined, or minted or assayer's marks so if anyone has that info please feel free to enlighten me. I'm just totally psyched!

Here are some more pics of other stuff I gathered, including what I think is my first musketball. Please tell me it's a musketball? Because the guy who gave permission to hunt the site said "all I want is a musketball, if you find one" and it would be AWESOME to finally get one for him. I know you need scale for something like this, so I did the ruler thing. Looks like 17mm(?)



Also can't tell if that was a gauge or a pocketwatch. I'm leaning toward gauge.

Happy Hunting!

 

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[Mackaydon]

FERNANDO VI : 1 Real 1758 Madrid; assayer: JB
Assuming JB stands for:

José Tramullas y Ferrer - Bernardo Muñoz de Amador​

Don...

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the old silver and other finds

 

[Aureus]

Awesome Real! Big congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions and welcome to the Real club.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[cj74]

Awesome find. Here I found this...



1 Real from 1758 - SPAIN 1746-59 - FERNANDO VI - The Coin Database

 

[toasted]

Congrats. Also called a half pistareen

 

[Terry Soloman]

Congratulations! I have found a lot in 40+ years of digging, but NEVER a Spanish Silver coin - Wow!

 

[lairmo]

That's on my bucket list! (Of course so is the farthing and quite a few other things...lol)

 

[Gridwalker306]

Wow congrats on the lovely Real!!!!

 

[screwynewy]

There is always something mystical about finding Spanish silver. Congrats on your first. You definitely are on early site that offers great potential. I would definitely say you have a musket ball. Looks like you can see the mold ring around it in your group pic. I hope the property owner is excited to get it.

 

[sutphin]

DAMN NICE FINDS....................

 

[Shakakka]

Awesome find. Here I found this...

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1 Real from 1758 - SPAIN 1746-59 - FERNANDO VI - The Coin Database

Thanks! It's actually the one before it, with a different assayer ("JB" - José Tramullas - Ferrer y Domingo Bayón)

Good lookin' out all!

 

[scruggs]

We call them "eye poppers" and that's a nice one!

 

[GuyToken]

Nice find mon ami.
GuyToken

 

[digging440yrs]

Beauty !

 

[Ahab8]

Fantastic Spanish!!!! Congrats on that beauty

 

[WannaDig3687]

That's really cool! Congratulations!

 

[Wampum]

Congrats on a first! I look forward to finding my first Spanish silver, a bucket-lister for me.