On the board with the first colonial silver of the season

[Bill D. (VA)]

After making a scouting run yesterday afternoon, I stopped for a short hunt at the site we hunted on Monday. It was a gorgeous fall-like afternoon with a nice cool breeze, perfect for digging. I basically roamed around, and if I'd find a keeper I'd slow down in that area for a while before moving on. In spite of this place being pounded over the last 3+ years, there are a surprisingly good number of targets remaining. I was able to dig a few relics here and there including buttons, several early small caliber musketballs, some with a mold seam or sprue, and a leather ornament from the 1600s. I also eyeballed a large bore pipe stem (8/64") which dates to 1620-50. And I also recovered a small but mostly intact colonial hoe. As I was heading back toward the truck, I got one of those tight, upper 50s signals that wasn't hitting too hard, and this is the signature for a cut piece of silver with my F75. I was liking my chances but had trouble locating the target once it was out of the hole. When I finally had it in my hand I could see it wasn't a cut piece, and thought I'd struck out, especially when I saw the smooth back side of whatever it was. But when I flipped it over and cleaned some of the dirt off I was a little surprised to see that it was indeed a very small Spanish cob, or micro-cob as I'm calling it . Although it does count as colonial silver, it's a little embarrassing compared to the monster cob Dan dug at this site 2 days ago. Mine only weighs 0.81g which is probably a 1/10 the weight of Dan's 4 reale cob. And of course, this one doesn't count toward our little coin competition since I was hunting alone .... bummer for me. Regardless, I'm on the board for the new season and hopefully can add to the total soon.

 

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[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

That is a large field, if the finds are scattered all over it, I can see why your still getting the goods after 3 years,
And yes the condition is fantastic.
Good job getting on board.

 

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[Scrappy]

Well that didn't take long!!!

And don't worry, we're keeping count anyway

Steve

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Hey buddy, super excited to see you back into the old stuff. That's a cool little piece of silver. I hope you have a killer season. It's been fun to see my Tnet buddies have so much success. Go get em buddy

Great to hear from ya buddy. I guess you're still busy with work and don't have much in the way of free time. Hope to see you get back to that latten spoon site before winter. Take care, and make sure you find time for some play.

 

[joeyfresh]

You are spoiled!!! When you told me it was tiny earlier I was expecting to see something smaller than that. That's about the size of most of the heavily clipped half reales I'm used to finding. That's a winner in my eyes. Great job getting on the board!

 

[cjon455]

great job bill, id take a cob 1/8th of the size of that one!, look forward to your future posts!!

 

[Old Dude]

Great way to get onboard. Is the leather ornament the brass piece you have next to the cut silver in your pic? It 's shape reminds me of an Egyptian ankh. I think I like it even better than your silver!

 

[basque-man]

How cool is that? Keep the post coming!!!!

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

You are spoiled!!! When you told me it was tiny earlier I was expecting to see something smaller than that. That's about the size of most of the heavily clipped half reales I'm used to finding. That's a winner in my eyes. Great job getting on the board!

Joey - I don't remember you digging anything this size or smaller. Don't forget you're the king of huge cobs with that monster 8 reale you dug a couple years ago. Feel free to post up your smallies here.

 

[Garrett424]

A cob is a cob no matter how small.

Congrats on a great hunt.

 

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Hello dan great hunt there. Can I ask what is the first item under the farm field photo ? I found onee last week
And have no idea what it is.