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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3571645, member: 10461&quot;]In my limited experience as a coin dealer, I&#039;ve been presented with supposed Spanish treasure cobs (&quot;pieces of eight&quot;) which came with similar family heirloom backstories, or metal detecting tales (and real beach sand in the crevices).&nbsp; But the &quot;coins&quot; have invariably been modern gift shop replicas made for tourists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not all of these people were trying to pull a con job.&nbsp; Some might have believed the stories they had been told.&nbsp; And the beach find might have actually happened- just with a fake coin.&nbsp; As a detectorist, I&#039;ve dug replica items in historic places, myself- right next to authentic ones.&nbsp; Being dug doesn&#039;t automatically make something old.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, I live in an area where real finds <i>do</i> occur.&nbsp; My local detecting buddy found <a href="https://www.icollector.com/Triangular-cut-piece-of-a-silver-splash-ingot-70-2-grams-marked-with-a-crowned-Mexican-style-cro_i24550052" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.icollector.com/Triangular-cut-piece-of-a-silver-splash-ingot-70-2-grams-marked-with-a-crowned-Mexican-style-cro_i24550052" rel="nofollow">this</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Admittedly, not too many EID MAR denarii have been unearthed in coastal Georgia, USA.&nbsp; I did find a real Roman <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/">coin</a> once, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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