Spanish and Irish silver!

[cerebus]

Had a great hunt at site I’ve hit many times before. Salt water beach and the coins show the damage salt does, but that’s life lol. An interesting variety of silver coins, a 1739 2 reale,1813 Irish 10 pence bank token, 2 Canadian fish scales, and what I think is a rubbed smooth love token. Also found 14 coppers in pretty rough shape, managed to pick out an XII countermark on what may be the roughest copper cob possible! The pile is all the lead and copper from the site in total.
Also a very cool headstone in the general area. Skull and crossbones surrounded by baby heads.

 

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[Joe-Dirt]

Looks like you were busy!!! Nice haul

 

[Relicific]

Wow that’s a great hunt

 

[Aureus]

Awesome finds! Congratulations!

 

[CoinFetcher]

Looks like an incredible site!! Good finds

 

[washingtonian]

What a neat site. Gotta love that variety of nice, old silver!

 

[Digger RJ]

Awesome!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the nice finds!

 

[digging440yrs]

 

[Inspector]

Great hunt, nice coin recovering, that's a big pile, cool headstone, congrats

 

[basque-man]

What a awesome HUNT!!!!! Great saves for sure!

 

[DetectingGodlikeOnOlympus]

I would be out there with my lunch box and a spade taking 10' x 10' areas of that beach down about two feet. Maybe dig at night with a red filter on my headlamp. I would also swim into and away from the site to keep the local competition from spotting my wagon.

Where did you say this beach is again?

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Hawks88]

Nice haul. Congrats

 

[Mackaydon]

[FONT=&quot]Your "XII" coin, I believe, is a Spanish countermarked (resello) copper coin, called a maravedi. From 2 to 4 maravedis coins were countermarked IIII, VI, VIII, 8, and XII. [/FONT][FONT=&quot] When the economy was bad because of so many wars during that century, King Felipe IV would use small value coins and simple stamp them with higher values. Cob coins were in silver and gold, this one is in copper maravedi.
Don....[/FONT]

 

[CRUSADER]

You got a British style Love Token (The one bent in different directions)

 

[cerebus]

You got a British style Love Token (The one bent in different directions)

Awesome was hoping it was. It’s bigger than other 6 pence love tokens I’ve found. This one is almost exactly 1 inch, any idea what it could be?

 

[cerebus]

Your "XII" coin, I believe, is a Spanish countermarked (resello) copper coin, called a maravedi. From 2 to 4 maravedis coins were countermarked IIII, VI, VIII, 8, and XII. When the economy was bad because of so many wars during that century, King Felipe IV would use small value coins and simple stamp them with higher values. Cob coins were in silver and gold, this one is in copper maravedi.
Don....

Yes thx you are definitely correct, I just like saying copper cob lol.

 

[CRUSADER]

Awesome was hoping it was. It’s bigger than other 6 pence love tokens I’ve found. This one is almost exactly 1 inch, any idea what it could be?

I think this is the first I've seen in the US. Its a British custom, so, it was a 'settled Brit' or a keep sake they brought with them.
I call it the poor man's version, because most were in silver. Some like that one are copper, but it doesn't seem to fit the farthings or half-pennies of that period, so I'm not sure what coin it once was.

 

[Doug from NS]

Interesting you finding the fishscales and the Newfoundland cents. Did you find these in the USA?