Silvers thin and old

[McCDig]

Went back to the farm park and started on the west side but ended up on the east side and that's when the relics started showing up and all within a small area. A high tone that was solid in one direction and broken in the other turned out to be an 1853 trime. Great to get silver and also break the century barrier. About 11 paces away another high tone came out as a utensil handle, more proof of proximity to a home site. I was working up and down the hill and close to the top I dug a musketball. After about another half hour of swinging, a mixed tone in the 70s came from under a root, but not deep. This shallow "coin" is a 1773 half reale minted in Mexico City and had been re-purposed as a button with what appears as the remainder of a silver shank on the reverse. Finished the day with some older headstamps from U.M.C. Co. and WRA. Two horseshoes were added to the day's finds. This was one of those uncanny days of relics for me that are rare. Glad I decided to head back to the farm today.

 

[WaterScoop]

Awesome finds!
Congratulations and thanx for sharing,

 

[mikefromIllinois]

Congrats on a couple of super nice oldies. Have only found one silver trime and no reales in 46yrs.of detecting.

 

[McCDig]

Thx WaterScoop! Like that lil' digger; looks like he'd find the goods.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Mike! Up until today, I'd not found a trime outside Baltimore City. This is my first in Baltimore County. The other first for me today is that half reale button; I've seen one other posted on YouTube.
In doing some genealogy in the past couple weeks I traced a Charles McCullough who migrated from Cumberland County, PA in the 1850s to Cazenovia, IL; he served in the Civil War.

 

[WaterScoop]

Thx WaterScoop! Like that lil' digger; looks like he'd find the goods.

Funny we are in search of things from his era that were dropped.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

AWESOME saves McD! Congrats on pulling those great coins, that must be a YUUUGE park, it's been coughing up sweet keepers for a long time! I have neither a Trime, a Reale....or Seated...or Capped...ugh I need to get out!! Thx for sharing, Ddf

 

[JackalopeZL1]

Nice Mike, A couple of bucket listers there for me!! Congrats

 

[against the wind]

The Trime and Spanish Silver are right at the top of my bucket list. Sweet hunt McD.
Congratulations

 

[McCDig]

Thx DDF! Started hunting this park in January 2017 and hit it pretty hard until mid-June. The two silvers today make this small section of a large park, the "silver" spot; got three seated dimes close by this location last year.

 

[McCDig]

Thx ATW. This is a spot away from traffic, so it's pretty quiet. Still haven't sent the F75 in for repair of the headphone jack, so I'm using the on-board speaker, which is adequate under these conditions.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Ken! That half reale may be my oldest silver coin.

 

[JackalopeZL1]

It is a beauty! And the button conversion makes it a little more special to me Makes it a little more personal.

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, wow. You found some nice old coins on your hunt. love the old 1773 half reale. Congrats

 

[McCDig]

Definitely. I figured it had to be someone with a little money who would make buttons from their coins.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!!

 

[HighVDI]

Killer hunt, congratulations on a couple coins on most people's bucket list.

 

[treblehunter]

Sweet finds Mike, congrats!

 

[McCDig]

Thx Brendan75! That's my first in 2018, maybe the last, but with detecting you never know what's coming up next. GL & HH!

 

[McCDig]

Thx Brad! Here's a YouTube link I came across yesterday from a digger in NJ who happened upon a similar button.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En4x9-PGZZk​