My First Spanish Silver!!!

[Showtime2385]

Hey guys, If you had good weather like I did today (65 degrees) I hope you got a chance to get out and swing the coil. I went and hit a cellar hole in the woods I recently found with my fiancee and I got my first Spanish real! Its pretty slick but has a readable date of 1779! wohoo

Here it is cleaned up.


Here's the dirt shot.


Here a shot of the cellar hole looking at the fireplace. As you can see in the background its pretty hard swinging there due to sooo many downed trees.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job. Welcome to the Spanish silver club.

 

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Great digs man love it !!

 

[pepperj]

Very nice, congrats on your first one.

 

[IndianaHunter27]

Congratulations on your first Spanish reale !

 

[Gridwalker306]

Congrats, it must be an awesome feeling pulling up a Spanish silver!

 

[Showtime2385]

Thank you guys! That's one more off the bucket list

 

[Scrappy]

Great Spanish silver. Nothing feels quite like one. It looks like the size of a 1R. Try and clean it up a bit more and post a close up, maybe we can get the mint or assayer for you.

Congrats steve

 

[Showtime2385]

That's about as much as I dare to clean it. Had to angle the flashlight to get the details to show it the pics like that.

 

[Silvermonkey]

What a fantastic find! Congratulations!!!. One day, I hope to join this very special club. HH.

 

[Showtime2385]

I wish you all luck on getting in the club who haven't found one yet!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Great find, but from your first pic the image on the right looks like the coin is pitted as though it might be a pewter counterfeit. I could be wrong, but that's what it looks like to me at first glance Can you post better, more zoomed in pics of both sides? And did it read high in the silver range or much lower?

 

[coinman123]

Congrats on your first, so far I only found one spanish silver, also a 1779, seems they made a lot that year . Congrats, must have been a rush to find it.

 

[Showtime2385]

Great find, but from your first pic the image on the right looks like the coin is pitted as though it might be a pewter counterfeit. I could be wrong, but that's what it looks like to me at first glance Can you post better, more zoomed in pics of both sides? And did it read high in the silver range or much lower?

Its silver, It rang in at a 82-84 if I remember correctly.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Congratulations!!!! 1779...WOW!

 

[Old Dude]

Congrats on a nice silver. I decided to leave my first in the ground so my hunting buddy could get his first one great looking site. I would go back and take a saw if I had to so I could clear that out.

 

[UnderMiner]

Nice! A 1 Reale was the equivalent to about 12.5 cents at the time (as you needed 8 of them to make a "Spanish Dollar", AKA the "8 Reale" or "Piece of 8") Pirates and colonists would have used this kind of money very frequently up until the mid 1800's. Very nice find, maybe a pirate owned it once, or more likely an American patriot who helped found this nation

 

[Showtime2385]

Its crazy to think that its about to turn 237 years old! To only know who's hands it passed through

 

[Loco-Digger]

Felicitaciones por el impresionante plata española.

Congratulations on the Awesome Spanish silver.

 

[Showtime2385]

Thanks for the Spanish lesson