My first Spanish Silver

[stewball1]

I don't post much, but I think this find is worthy. On April 6th, I went to a school in Huntington, NY that I have been hunting at for about 8 years. The school has been good to me in that it previously gave up 1816 & 1826 large cents, about 50 silver coins (Mercs, Roosies and Washingtons), loads of wheats, loads of clad coins, 6 silver rings and one gold ring. This time I hunted with a Minelab SE Pro with a 12 inch stock coil. Since the weather was nice, I decided to warm up for a hour and hunt. I cleaned up the tot lots of clad and proceeded to the soccer field. I went about 5 yards in and got a jumpy signal of 29 and 428 on my detector. I dug down about 6 inches and out popped this 1737 Pistereen 2 Reales coin weighing about 6 grams and minted in Seville. Good thing I went to the toilet before I went hunting. This is a bucket lister and my oldest find to date.

 

[washingtonian]

That thing is a beauty. Amazing find. Well done!!

 

[EdHartzel]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Old ground keeps giving!! Good job! Quite the coin to be proud of! Hope one day I can post my first Spanish Silver!!

 

[7up2000]

Wow. Precision hunting. That schoolyard sure has been good to you. Nice work. HH

 

[RVRoamer76]

Wayyyy cool Spanish!! I'd post that puppy too. Congrats on that beauty.

 

[Mackaydon]

Excellent save and in great condition !
Don.......

 

[Lost Signal]

Congrats!!!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Wicked nice find kid!!!!!!

 

[arrow86]

Congrats on nice find it’s a sweet one too, makes you wonder how that ended up there

 

[DeepseekerADS]

WOW!

We love Bucket-Listers here Congratulations on a wonderful find.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet old silver...that 4-28 must have sounded like music to your ears, even jumpy!

 

[dirtlooter]

a Holy Cow moment for sure, congrats

 

[HIGHSTRUNG]

Awesome find! Congrats!

 

[john845]

That is a great coin for a first!!!!

 

[Megalodon]

Congrats on that old spanish silver. Agree with you about peeing before you dig - you never know...

 

[smokeythecat]

Yours is very, very nice. It must have been lost fairly close to it's mint date to retain that much detail.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Congrats on that old spanish silver. Agree with you about peeing before you dig - you never know...

I had to "like" that, been out in them woods myself!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[Aureus]

What a beauty this thing is! Congratulations!

 

[RelicMaster777]

Congrats on your beautiful first reale and a really old 1 reale to boot. Huntington has some really old history. Great you save it out of a old schoolyard, considering how built up L.I. is, it's a wonder we find anything that old. Imagine how much is lost forever with the urban and suburban sprawl. I just dug a 1736 1/2 reale out of my old school last week ( my last post) here in G.Cove I was pretty amazed. But the stuff is there, ya just gotta find it. PM me if ya want to hunt the schoolyards together. Mine has been really good too, like yours. Cheers