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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4140414, member: 10461&quot;]Speaking of half-reales, here&#039;s another Spanish piece I dug here.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Mexico (Spanish Colonial): silver half-real, Mexico City mint, 1787-FM.</b></font></font></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1787halfreal-jpg.698021/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found this little beauty on St. Simons Island, Georgia, while metal detecting near the site of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oglethorpe#Founding_of_Georgia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oglethorpe#Founding_of_Georgia" rel="nofollow">General James Oglethorpe&#039;s</a> long-vanished villa that he had occupied during the founding of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Frederica_National_Monument" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Frederica_National_Monument" rel="nofollow">Frederica</a> town in the 1730s. (Oglethorpe was the founder of Georgia.) </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was lost later, obviously, after he went back to England, but there was an old plantation on the same site in the later 1700s and early 1800s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had found a holed 1776 half-real on the same site the night before, just a few feet from where I dug this one. Exciting stuff![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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