Old Spanish Silver!! 178? ID help??, Colonial Button

[93vector]

Got out for a couple hours to an old house/field site.
Not sure exactly what the coin is, but sure it is Spanish....any help would be appreciated....178? date
Pretty sure the button is colonial??

Thanks for looking!

 

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[John (Ma)]

Not sure, but nice coins

 

[hogge]

Awesome coin. Congrats! Hogge

 

[incajoe]

Spanish silver!

You lucky dog!

 

[Nana40]

DANG! Awesome find, 93!!!

Nana~

 

[Mackaydon]

Good call on the half real (16.4 mm) versus the dime at (17.91mm) .
A 178? (Charles) coin could be either C III (to 1788) or C IV (from 1788).
Mexico City mint.
Don.....
Edit: Looking at the coin again, I read most of the name: CAROLUS. This only appeared on the 1/2 R of Charles IV and his coinage of the 1/2 real began in 1789. CAROLUS III 1/2 reales had only CAR and were not minted beyond 1771. So if you can read 178X, then X is a 9 and it's from C IV.
Congrats,
Don...

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Congrates, is that your first Spanish silver?

 

[romeo-1]

Great find...tough to beat Spanish silver!

 

[93vector]

Congrates, is that your first Spanish silver?

Yes..my first!

 

[93vector]

Good call on the half real (16.4 mm) versus the dime at (17.91mm) .
A 178? (Charles) coin could be either C III (to 1788) or C IV (from 1788).
Mexico City mint.
Don.....
Edit: Looking at the coin again, I read most of the name: CAROLUS. This only appeared on the 1/2 R of Charles IV and his coinage of the 1/2 real began in 1789. CAROLUS III 1/2 reales had only CAR and were not minted beyond 1771. So if you can read 178X, then X is a 9 and it's from C IV.
Congrats,
Don...

Thats great...thanks for the research!!

 

[CRUSADER]

I think it is a half real.

It also looks like someone soldered on a shank to use it as a button at one time.

Its a refilled hole/holes.

Nice dandy button. (1780-1790s)

 

[John987]

Nice Find! It looks like (on my monitor) that it may be a "4".
Congrats on a nice old coin.
John from Upstate NY