Reale Spill on Town Common!

[jrmazzeo]

This year has been OK, about 50 silver coins but nothing to write home about. Today I tried a town common that goes back to the early 1800s. Usually I don't have a lot of luck at town commons as they have been pounded pretty well here in New England. But in about 1.5 hours today I hit the jackpot.

The square has 4 triangular sections with a civil war monument in the center. I hunted one of the triangles for about 30 minutes and got nothing but clad on the surface.

I moved to another triangle and got a nice high tone. It was a 1919-S mercury dime, only about 4 inches and in nice shape.

About 10 feet away I got a high tone 36 that was reading about 6-8 inches. I was figuring it was a wheatie. After popping the plug and scooping out some dirt I saw that exciting flash of silver and a small coin I did not recognize. Turns out to be a 1828 (can read the 28, 18 not as well) Mexican 1/2 reale. Checked the hole with the pin pointer and still getting a good signal. Scooped out some dirt and out popped the 1785 1 reale. Amazing spill!

Final hole of the day was an 1853 seated dime with arrows at a shallow 3-4 inches. I was sure it was a memorial based on the numbers and depth. Goes to show you never know.

All 4 silver coins were on one of the triangular areas and I still have about half of it left to hunt as well as two other triangles. Had to leave for father's day lunch but can't wait to get back next weekend!

HH

 

[relic lover]

Great day for you. I love that Mexican it's in great shape. The seated is also super nice. Not to mention the that you found a real spill

 

[romeo-1]

I'd say you got there first...awesome finds!

 

[Texas Ed]

Bodacious silver Merc - reale - seated - clad finds & "congrats" to you thanks for sharing your pictures and interesting story with all of us. I wish you many more great finds while out dirt fishing.

Texas ED

 

[kcm]

AWESOME!!

 

[BigWaveDave]

Dang... Why the @ did I move to SW Florida?
Go Sox!

 

[ScubaDetector]

Very nice bunch of silvers.

 

[Gaspipe]

Nice finds but I gotta ask ...No one says anything while you are digging holes in the center of town?

 

[jrmazzeo]

Nice finds but I gotta ask ...No one says anything while you are digging holes in the center of town?

Not did today and generally unless there is a sign forbidding it I have never had an issue. If you dig a proper plug and replace it and the dirt you can barely tell a hole was dug.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Sweet array of multiple silvers! Congrats!
Thats awesome!

 

[testing123]

congrats on the old silvers! Hard to find silver spills, let alone ones that old! BTW, it's "real" not "reale"

 

[ArDirtSlinger]

Oh My..... Congrats

 

[jrmazzeo]

congrats on the old silvers! Hard to find silver spills, let alone ones that old! BTW, it's "real" not "reale"

Thanks for the correction.

 

[port ewen ace]

appears you earned your keep today>>>>>>>>>>size doesn't always matter<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<and variety goes a long way ()
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[UnderMiner]

Cool, those old Spanish Reals fall right in line with the date on your seated Liberty from 1853. The Spanish Real was legal tender in the US until 1857 - meaning your pocket spill likely occurred around this time just before the Spanish Dollar lost its legal status as US currency. Here is an interesting piece of history concerning the Spanish Dollar and its connection to the United States that I found online:

"Spanish dollars were made legal tender in the United States by an Act of February 9, 1793, and were not demonetized until February 21, 1857. Testaments to the importance of these coins continue in that "two bits," "pieces of eight" and "picayune" have become part of the American vocabulary. Also, it is interesting to observe that when the New York Stock Exchange opened in 1792 rates were reported in terms of New York shillings which were valued at eight to the Spanish milled dollar, hence changes were reported in eighths. Amazingly, over two hundred years after adoption of the decimal system, stock and security price variations are still reported in eighths!"

Once again, very cool finds! Carlos III Reals are pretty hard to find, yours is likely from the Mexico mint, very popular currency for use by American colonists, no doubt once belonging to someone who witnessed the American Revolution first hand.

 

[austin]

Some quality coins you found. Congratulations.

 

[Dirtwisher]

Now that's a realy good day ;-)

 

[against the wind]

Excellent hunt.
Quite an impressive gathering of Silver.

 

[tomhighland]

Very nice day,good luck on the rest of the site.

 

[Gridwalker306]

That's one of the best coin spills I've ever seen, huge congrats!