Spanish silver?

[bpfeiffer90]

I received permission to hunt on this 1700s property today and besides digging 3 Indian head pennies I dug up this cut silver coin that I'm having difficulty ID'ING hoping that someone could help me tell what it is. I'm assuming a Spanish Reale? Thanks for any help hope everyone had a good weekend.

 

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[Silvermonkey]

That certainly is a cut reale. Congratulations! HH

 

[can]

very nice find

 

[bpfeiffer90]

thanks! anyone know the purpose of the cuts? i'm just curious what the purpose was for doing this

 

[OutdoorAdv]

That's a nice one. Looks like it might be a mid 1700's Philip reale minted in Mexico. Though to tell since there's no size reference but probably a 1 reale or 2 Reales.

Would be the bottom left corner of a coin like this

 

[OutdoorAdv]

thanks! anyone know the purpose of the cuts? i'm just curious what the purpose was for doing this

They were cut to make change.

 

[46Wheat]

Very cool find on the old silver

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Also, welcome to tnet bpfeiffer90! Hit that site hard, there will surely be some more nice Colonial keepers hiding there.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the old silver

 

[A2coins]

That is Reale nice

 

[bill from lachine]

Great condition on the cut reale.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[bpfeiffer90]

thanks guys! more to come I have an entire 9 acres of virgin ground all to myself. thanks for all the input!

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on the cut Spanish. It is a pillars style coin like Brad said. If you dug that in northern Delaware, that's pretty cool because they are not common in eastern PA and NJ.

 

[basque-man]

Way cool and congrats. Certainly on our wish list when we hit New Jersey this summer!!!

 

[OutdoorAdv]

I realized that you can actually see part of the denomination on it. Looks like a quarter of an 8 reale.

The top of the cut has the base of an 8 it looks like to me.

 

[bpfeiffer90]

thanks guys it was my first hunt with the AT Pro and once it hit that Reale at 2" it sounded like it was about to explode haha. I know delaware had a lot of spanish explorers around the 1600s so who knows I think that's always as interesting as finding the coin, wondering the history that goes along with it.

 

[bpfeiffer90]

I also think it's a cut from a 8 as well when I compared it

 

[Mackaydon]

To determine it's original denomination there are two quick methods:
1. If the diameter (not the radius) of the coin were 20mm= 1R; if 28mm= 2R; if 34mm=4R and if 40=8R
2. Take the weight of your coin in grams and multiply by 4. Take that number and divide it into 27 will give you its proportion to an 8R coin.
Don.....

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice.

 

[against the wind]

Nice cut silver,
Congrats