Half crown I found in Charleston SC while metal detecting

I know it’s in ruff shape but I found this in the swamps of Charlston! I’m probably the first person to touch it since it was left

 

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Looks like William III if you ask me. That would put the date range between 1696 and 1701.

 

That’s what I thought pretty cool! Found it about 2 foot down on the marsh

 

Nice find!

Have you searched the surrounding area? Sometimes hoards are found that way.

There was a guy in England who found a Roman denarius and then later found another one and eventually he found out by looking nearby that they were part of a giant hoard on his property.



Note: If you do find a hoard it’s best to report it and get something rather than get caught later and lose it all.

Yeah it’s in pretty rough condition but:

1). It was free!
2). You found something cool!

Any time I see someone find coins in the ground I am happy because they are worthless in the ground.

If it’s William III then I am very curious when it was lost.

Charlston is a city that has been around for longer than America has been a country so it could’ve been lost almost anytime in the last 3 centuries.

 

Is it just me or does it look like copper underneath the silver?

 

The more I read it’s pretty rare to find English silver! They didnt want silver in the colony’s so majority of what you find is Irish and Scottish copper pennies! I found this all in the same day! I believe is was a trading post of some sort pre revolutionary war!

 

I found a copper penny 25 yards away

 

Nice find.

 

Those are some nice finds. Looks like a belt buckle, whale tooth (no scrimshaw?), pottery, and more. Wonder what that tubular, straw-like object is?

Very nice day swinging the detector.

 

Those are clay pipes! They actually have the pipe making stamps on them they would have 8 to 12 in stem! And it’s a boars tooth! The brown pottery I think is Native American influence while the blue and white is your British tableware! I have a lot more finding to do, but summertime in the Charlston swamps I don’t think so! It’s prob 200 yards from a main river! It’s a winter time event! I also found a clipping of probably one of the rarest coins you can find! They would cut silver to trade!

 

Are there any remnants of the edge lettering by any chance? You might be able to date your discovery if that's the case.

 

I actually know the settlement in history, 1670 king William 2 went from Charles town up the edisto river about 20 miles inland! There one of his religious lords made a 55 house settlement with the pon pon Indians! over time as SC grew and then the civil war it’s been completely erased! I find old brick, oyster shells by the load! We also have found slave tags and union artillery badges! The day I found my silver my best friend pulled a flowing hair silver prob 100 yards deeper the. Wear I was! Only a group of about 5 of us dig!

 

BLACKBEARD's Treasure Hoard ...

 

Maybe part of the pipe stem?

 

I played quite a bit of golf around Charleston. Lots of unsavory critters in that area when you get off the beaten path.

 

That cut 8R is sweet. Looks like an awesome location!

 

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It’s awesome alright but it in the SWAMP! absolutely brutal! Even in the winter poisonous snakes, alligators, poison oak and all types of spiders and bug!