Todays Ghost Town Hunt

[camb1]

Went out with several T-Net members today. John Deere Digger, T-bucket & TC4. We hunted at my ghost town again today and we had a great time getting out on this fine day. Boy did we cover a lot of ground today with not much finds but buttons and lead. I made the find of the day after about 4 hours of detecting. I was a long way from the others when I heard a loud silver tone about blew my ears out. LOL. I have found a few silvers here in the past year. Two half dimes and bits of Spanish Reales. I dug down about five inches and pulled out another bit of a Spanish 8 Reale that was from the 1790's. Here is my picture. Thanks for looking.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Wow! That's a very nice find! I'd have that on display as soon as I got home.

 

[camb1]

Wow! That's a very nice find! I'd have that on display as soon as I got home.

Thanks GaRebel1861

 

[camb1]

Yeah, I made it on Minelabs Home Page of Success Stories.

 

[Digginbingo]

Awesome.

 

[ronbo22]

Nice find for Illinois or anywhere

 

[camb1]

Thanks Ronbo22 and Digginbingo

 

[kayden]

WTg...Nice finds!

 

[Wldbil]

Congrats on a nice Piece of Silver...

 

[jewelerguy]

sweet cut reale

 

[camb1]

sweet cut reale

Thanks jewelerguy. Love your avatar

 

[Phanntom]

This would appear to be a very rare and valuable find. It was typical back then when you bought something and they didn't have change they would cut the coin to an appropriate size either for "change", or payment. Yours looks to be either a 2 or 4-bit piece. I've only ever seen one cut coin in the flesh and it was on display in a museum with the explanation of why it was cut. Yours isn't a lawnmower cut. A great speciman.

 

[camb1]

Thanks Phanntom. I have several of these from my families ghost town that dates from 1809-1845. Can't wait to get back out there after the deer season.

 

[Gunrunner61]

Cool find, Congrats.................HH