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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[Stef45]

Congrats on your first Spanish Silver!

 

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[sugarquartz]

Very nice Spanish Silver !! Congratulations!

Does anyone have any idea what the brass objects to the far right of the 3rd and 4th photo are? Are they musical instrument reeds?

 

[Shakakka]

Very nice Spanish Silver !! Congratulations!

Does anyone have any idea what the brass objects to the far right of the 3rd and 4th photo are? Are they musical instrument reeds?

Awesome question. I'd really like to know myself. They seem way too small to be any kind of effective metal strapping.

 

[plymouthian12]

Congrats

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[StonedOregonhunter]

I could only dream of finding one of them out here on the West Coast! Spectacular find and I would definitely hunt them grounds 20 or 30 more times. Good luck you have a awesome start it sounds like. HH

 

[JerseyDigger19]

Jackpot!!! That's a beautiful coin right there.

 

[gold panner]

congrats on the reale

 

[DIGDIG]

Wow, nice. The things on the right are part of what we call P-clamps. They are part of the clamp that holds the old phone line to the pole or house(not old) the older ones would be copper, newer ones aluminum. The clamp has 3 parts, that is the center piece that keeps the wire from slipping.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Nice looking coin with strong details and date. Congrats on your first .....

 

[dbqIAhunter]

Congrats on the great finds.Very cool