Spanish silver and the ugliest dime on Earth!

[vthepresident]

Finally had good weather and a day off today, so I headed out to one of the new sites I have been lining up for the past few months. I have some really good prospects for the spring, and I have been itching to get at them.

Today, I went to a pre-civil war farm house on about fifty acres of rolling pasture. I only had about two hours to feel it out, and the owner said it had been graded near the house when it was restored in the 80's, so I started gridding the periphery of the yard.

I had been there about thirty minutes with nothing, but then I found all the hardware for a complete set of overalls, and then BANG! a great silver signal.

I thought the thin edge would be a badly worn barber quarter, but to my surprise, it was a nice 1779 one reale!!
Only my second piece of Spanish silver ever.

About five feet away, I got a very faint signal, and I saw another silver coin in the plug

I was perplexed because I knew it was silver, and I could tell it was holed, but the dime has horrible dimpling all over it, and it was completely unrecognizable. I thought it might be a half reale, but when I got home and ran water over it, you can see the words "one dime" on one side, and it is either a Barber or a Seated. We'll never know for sure, but who knows what happened to it. It is the ugliest dime I have ever seen, but I love it!
Great day digging.
Thanks for reading
V

 

[Produce Guy]

Man,I don't know about that dime ,but please do something to your hands ,Lotion,lotion,lotion
Ha-Ha just kidding they look just like mine.

 

[vthepresident]

Ha! I know, digging doesn't make for pretty hands, but if I have calluses and dirt under my fingernails, then I have been doing some detecting, so it's a good sign.

I'd trade pretty hands for spanish silver any day!

 

[Mr Tuff]

awesome silver!!! MR TUFF

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Hello,

I like to make jewelry with my bad silver. That ugly dime would make a nice little love token.

Congratulations on the great finds !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[soupie]

Terrific Silver Finds...just wonder if the dime was exposed to heat of some sort
Good luck out there..
Soup

 

[vthepresident]

Hello,

I like to make jewelry with my bad silver. That ugly dime would make a nice little love token.

Congratulations on the great finds !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

That is a great idea. I've been wanting to try to make a love token anyway, so this is a perfect candidate. Thanks!

 

[steelheadwill]

Love That Spanish!
Agree the dime looks melted, I think it's quite nice,
maybe an idea for new topic: 'Show us your Ugliest Silver'
Congrats on some great Silver!!

 

[Whydah]

I have one that looks just like it, I'm thinking FIRE !

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nice VA. silver!

 

[bula]

Very nice silver, I found a dime that looked like that & knowing it could never be graded I did electrolysis on it. It came out showing every detail & cleaned up nice.

 

[Don in SJ]

One goodie of a silver(Real) and sure hate to see those fire damaged silvers, sooner or later if you hunt the homesteads most will find one or two in their lifetime I suppose.

Don

 

[allen]

I cant wait to find my first spanish silver !

 

[poppy in pa.]

Yes, I dug a Barber Quarter like that last year. FIRE DAMAGE

 

[colorado14ers]

double silver-double oldies! nice!!!

 

[kimsdad]

WTG!!!

I found a holed one real last fall, I know how you feel!

 

[Wldbil]

Congrats on the silver...

 

[Hill Billy]

Nice Spanish Pres.
Great hunt.

 

[traverdog]

Not too shabby!! Good find.

 

[vthepresident]

Thanks for the replies.
I thought this might be the next size up reale, because it is larger than my last one. But after cleaning, I could clearly see the '1 R.' apparently my first one had the edges milled or filed down because it is centered, but is a full millimeter smaller in diameter than this one.
Anyone know what the official diameter of a one reale should be?