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Need your help guys, I think it's a reale!!!
Ok i'll just go through the hole story. Sorry if it is boring.
My grandfather made very good friends with a man in church. He owns one of the oldest houses in the area, built in the 1780's. I have hunted it previously 2 times with nothing but clad and junque. I went back yesterday at the request that i look for the glasses the owner lost. I figured it was like finding a needle in a haystack due to the fact that the glasses have very little metal in them and that he didn't know exactly where they fell out of his pocket. Needless to say, I did not find it.
I asked him if i could go around the yard and he said of course. I started by getting 4 wheaties in an area that I had searched the last few times.
I moved to the front yard and got a somewhat iffy quarter signal. I dug the hole and the signal was now bouncing around a half dollar, still a bit iffy. I pinpointed the object and thought it was a nice silver dime. I was hoping for a barber or seated. I rubbed some of the dirt off and saw this strange design scratched into the coin. I figured it was a button or something and then i noticed some of the finer details. I saw the bottom of the shield on the back and my heart skipped a beat. I put it in my pocket to be examined later and proceeded to find an 1898 indian head a few feet away.
I got home and cleaned it off a bit more. The shield became more prominent and i think i see a 1 and a 7 and another number after them. I think it's one of those funny looking 5's that the spainards do but i'm not to sure
. I need your help figuring out the date and what denomination it is. I read somewhere that the 2 reale is between a nickel and quarter in size, but this one is exactly the size of a nickel. Maybe since it's all messed up around the edges it's a bit smaller. If it's 1753 like i think it is, it will have beaten my oldest find by 127 years!! too bad this idiot had to go and mess up the one really cool coin i find.....
here are the pictures i've included...
pic. 1- the back of the coin (notice the shield on the bottom)
pic 2- the back of another coin found on ebay (to compare with pic. 1)
pic 3- the front of the coin i found, notice the date on bottom
pic 4- the front of a coin on ebay, look at funny looking 5
pic 5- coin next to the indian head i found
Thanks!!!
Ok i'll just go through the hole story. Sorry if it is boring.
My grandfather made very good friends with a man in church. He owns one of the oldest houses in the area, built in the 1780's. I have hunted it previously 2 times with nothing but clad and junque. I went back yesterday at the request that i look for the glasses the owner lost. I figured it was like finding a needle in a haystack due to the fact that the glasses have very little metal in them and that he didn't know exactly where they fell out of his pocket. Needless to say, I did not find it.
I asked him if i could go around the yard and he said of course. I started by getting 4 wheaties in an area that I had searched the last few times.
I moved to the front yard and got a somewhat iffy quarter signal. I dug the hole and the signal was now bouncing around a half dollar, still a bit iffy. I pinpointed the object and thought it was a nice silver dime. I was hoping for a barber or seated. I rubbed some of the dirt off and saw this strange design scratched into the coin. I figured it was a button or something and then i noticed some of the finer details. I saw the bottom of the shield on the back and my heart skipped a beat. I put it in my pocket to be examined later and proceeded to find an 1898 indian head a few feet away.I got home and cleaned it off a bit more. The shield became more prominent and i think i see a 1 and a 7 and another number after them. I think it's one of those funny looking 5's that the spainards do but i'm not to sure
. I need your help figuring out the date and what denomination it is. I read somewhere that the 2 reale is between a nickel and quarter in size, but this one is exactly the size of a nickel. Maybe since it's all messed up around the edges it's a bit smaller. If it's 1753 like i think it is, it will have beaten my oldest find by 127 years!! too bad this idiot had to go and mess up the one really cool coin i find.....here are the pictures i've included...
pic. 1- the back of the coin (notice the shield on the bottom)
pic 2- the back of another coin found on ebay (to compare with pic. 1)
pic 3- the front of the coin i found, notice the date on bottom
pic 4- the front of a coin on ebay, look at funny looking 5
pic 5- coin next to the indian head i found
Thanks!!!
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Nice finds tho.......Not GE
