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some (spanish) silver ?

allen

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I was let outside by my beautiful wife for a little bit today
and naturally decided to go detecting, but where, that was
the question?
My first stop at the quarter corner was stopped immediately
by the sight of about 10 police cruisers in the parking lot of
the school.
Second place I wanted to go the owner wasnt home, :icon_scratch:.
I wasnt too far from my home and saw a farmer working on
a fence and got the nerve to ask him if I could detect and he
bluntly told me NO !
So, I left and still needing to detect I basically made a loop
around the roads and ended up back at the same farm and
for the spite of it I asked if I could detect and he looked at
me and said you are a persistent SOB arent you?
I explained to him my wife only lets me out for an hour
or two a day and he thought that was funny and said, i'll
give you until im done with this fence line to detect.
So off I went and started by finding a bit of clad, square
nails and then a signal that stayed dead on a half dollar at
8+ inches and I was excited about this signal.
I dug my plug and pulled it out and there it was, a big
piece of silver and if im right this is a spanish realle.
Heres a couple of pics of it, and tell me my dream just
came true, please ?
 

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Close, but a replica I think. An authentic 8 reale cob where you found it would be beyond rare.
 
I agree with IP. :icon_thumleft:

Keep @ it and HH !! :D ;D
 
Iron Patch said:
Close, but a replica I think. An authentic 8 reale cob where you found it would be beyond rare.

Agreed.....the area around that hole looks wrong...... As for location one was recently found quite far from the thought norms.
 
Allen my friend, I am by no means an expert on old Spanish silver but it does look suspect to me. :hello:
 
Iron Patch said:
Close, but a replica I think. An authentic 8 reale cob where you found it would be beyond rare.

yeah & a known one, seem to remember this one
 
Allen please tell me this is not a known coin !! You have been here too long for that !!
 
MaineRelic said:
Allen please tell me this is not a known coin !! You have been here too long for that !!

Don't get me wrong. I mean its a known copy, as in there have been many made of this type.
 
Phew !!! I thought Cru had seen this very coin before ! Thanks for the correction CRU. MaineRelic
 

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Either way, real or replica, you got out detecting for the day.
 
I have one close to it. It's "pot metal".
 

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:dontknow: nice coin.......
 
Still it is a really cool find.
Fake or not it would have been a heart stopper find.

ChrisP
 
I agree; it's probably fake. If I were you, I would show/give the item to the property owner, thank him profusely for allowing you to hunt on his land, and suggest to him that there may be more valuable stuff under the ground, which, if found, you will share with him. I would also not divulge that the (probable) pot metal cob is a replica...let him find out for himself if he wishes to pursue this. Hopefully, all of this will give him an incentive to let you do some more detecting on his property.
 
old fake if it is... still a neat find that i would keep ;D way to go :icon_thumleft: MR TUFF
 
silverfinder said:
I agree; it's probably fake. If I were you, I would show/give the item to the property owner, thank him profusely for allowing you to hunt on his land, and suggest to him that there may be more valuable stuff under the ground, which, if found, you will share with him. I would also not divulge that the (probable) pot metal cob is a replica...let him find out for himself if he wishes to pursue this. Hopefully, all of this will give him an incentive to let you do some more detecting on his property.

Now that is wrong on so many levels and definitely not what you want to do.
 
Mr Tuff said:
old fake if it is... still a neat find that i would keep ;D way to go :icon_thumleft: MR TUFF

No, new fake. Old fake we wouldn't call a fake because it would be too good of a find to label it that.
 
IP is correct. There is no "probably fake." Its NOT old and its NOT silver. Its definitely a modern replica tourist souvenir. Nothing more. It would be wrong to pretend its anything else.Nevertheless I happen to think its better to find one of these than another zincoln.
 

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