spanish silver and silver colonial cuff link.

[Calabash Digger]

deus broke bad today!

 

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[rick67]

The museum might want that back

Congrats. I see the octagon upper right. I thought it was an early fastener (roofing) until I zoomed in and seen a design.
What is it?

And an early Musket ball, I hate you.

 

[Joe hunter]

Broke?noooo say it isn't so hope it's going to be ok your in my prayers

 

[Calabash Digger]

just broke in my hobby funds everything good on this end thanks, silver cuff link.

 

[Calabash Digger]

live dig of the silver

 

[rick67]

When's Keith going to add to the videos? Tell him to hit-up Santa for a gopro.
On video it sounded like a slow day but all good finds. There's got to be some buttons. Don't give up there yet.

 

[Calabash Digger]

It was slow but the house site needs to be bush hogged .

 

[can]

wow, that is a very nice looking coin.

 

[vferrari]

Nice finds, as usual. Half a cob is better than no cob which is what I got right now.

 

[Iron Buzz]

Broke?noooo say it isn't so hope it's going to be ok your in my prayers

I'm pretty sure he meant that in the way of the movie, "Breaking Bad" when he said that his Deus "broke bad today".

 

[toasted]

Nice finds, as usual. Half a cob is better than no cob which is what I got right now.

Thats not a cob. Its a pistareen. Itdates to the early 1700s when cobs were still being produced though.

 

[Calabash Digger]

It was the first pistareen I found wheres the other half gonna try and find out,

 

[toasted]

It was the first pistareen I found wheres the other half gonna try and find out,

It was intentionally cut to make change in colonial times. Very common to find them cut. Whole 2 reales pistareens are rarely dug. I found my first cut Pistareen recently and learned a lot from this http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/CNL/Pistareens.pdf

 

[Calabash Digger]

Ive found a few with the hole in them and thats the first cut silver ive found.

 

[toasted]

Common to find the later reales minted in the New world holed. The pistareens were earlier and minted in spain and much harder to find. Most pistareens cut or complete were out of circulation by the revolution

 

[DeepDigs]

Ive found a few with the hole in them and thats the first cut silver ive found.

Great finds Calabash!

Question - I can understand the cutting of the coins, but curious, why the hole thru the coin? Did they keep their money on a piece of string/chain or something?

 

[toasted]

Great finds Calabash!

Question - I can understand the cutting of the coins, but curious, why the hole thru the coin? Did they keep their money on a piece of string/chain or something?

Probably sewn into their clothing

 

[HuntinDog]

In those early days they carried their coins in pouches hung on a belt outside their clothe and on lanyards (holed)around their necks.
Pockets as we know them today weren't designed into clothing until the early 1800's.
Some did also sew them into the linings of their clothe.

 

[Calabash Digger]

A cool land owner let us hunt so this piece of silver is going to him he one of those land owners that will value it.

 

[vferrari]

A cool land owner let us hunt so this piece of silver is going to him he one of those land owners that will value it.

Class move CD.