Rescued Some Spanish Silver Today!

[Erik in NJ]

Back at the Colonial house I've been working since Thanksgiving...I was gridding an area that I've tentively hit before. My first target was a dropped musket ball. After a bit of a dry spell, I got a very shallow penny hit (ca. 1-1/2") and popped out a black disc. I saw it was holed and thin and knew it was OLD silver. Was too black to ID in the field, but it's a 178x Spanish 1/2 real. This my 3rd Spanish silver, 4th Spanish colonial coin, and 2nd 1/2 real. It's my first holed silver, very worn, but lot of character and my first colonial silver coin from this property! Here are some pics of it as it was cleaned by me.

Also found a very nice Colonial era buckle and a massive handle of some sort very deep at approx. 12" that will end up on the What Is It? section

 

[ChrisNJ]

Geez I need to start bushwacking the woods for old foundations, that is what I want to find, congrats.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Hi Chris! All three of mine were found on private property at older home site--two in NJ and one in MA. I'm always surprised at the amount of Spanish silver that gets continually posted here--I'm sure you'll find some. I'm in Bergen, where's Burlington County??

 

[fishstick]

KILLER find there ERIK!!!!! Hopefully one of these days some spanish silver will turn up in my neck of the woods.. CONGRATS bud... HH the other ERIK. lol.

 

[John Boy]

Very very nice.That one heck of a find.way to go

 

[TreasurDiggrNY]

Nice score Erik, love that old silver wtg

 

[granthansen]

Great save, and you're right... lots of character!