Nice Silver Coin Metal Detecting

I found my first colonial silver coin an hour ago metal detecting. I am thrilled, I found 11 coppers but no silver between May 2014 and yesterday, today it changed.

1779 Half Real.

 

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Wow, you must have some great sites!

 

Terrific find!!!
Hmmm, between numismatics, photography and my re-entry into metal detecting, I think I have toooo many hobbies

 

Wow, congrats! Where did you find it? Not exact site, but was it a beach, old church, etc.

 

I found it at a grown over colonial site in which there was some settlement from the early 1700's to around 1850. It is complete woods now, it was found 15 feet to the side of a small stream also.

Here's better photos of it along with a colonial button and buckle

(Coin looks better in hand)

 

Here is it after being put in a 2x2, a little better photo.

 

Nice find! Good for you!

Chris

 

Curious to me why the wear is so much more pronounced at center, obverse and reverse, and the remaining details elsewhere are so much stronger....

Regardless, a really great find!

 

Great find! I'd take up metal detecting if I could find stuff like that.

 

I was noticing that too, not sure how that happened, I usually see more even wear. Then again, I sometimes see that kind of wear on colonial spanish silver.

Any ideas on a value, I'm thinking maybe $5 or so...

In my opinion the thrill of finding it was worth at least $1000 so I will never sell it like any of my finds, it will stay in my collection for ever.

 

I'd have to search for similar types on Heritage, among other places, since that denomination is unfamiliar to me...But, i don't blame you for wanting to keep it and perhaps pass down in the family. It's got a cool provenance and it's just so neat to have found it in situ from all those centuries ago.

 

Very awesome find! By the time I get to the age where I'm retired and can talk my wife into getting a metal detector, everything will be gone!

 

Just a cursory search and it seems yours is worth slightly more than you think....perhaps $10- $20 or so

 

You found a belt buckle, a button, and a coin. If you dig a bit deeper you might find the skeleton.

 

awesome find! congrats!

 

Funny thing is in the same hole as the button I found a melted blob of lead... HMMM?

 

Yeah, Hmmmm...some nasty stuff could have happened there...

This isn't near any coastal waters is it?? Pirates and such ???

 

Nice Find!

 

Yah, there was some abandoned pirate ship in the 2 inch deep waters lol.
If the buckle button and coin were not 1/4 apart you could be right hahaha.

 

Nice find a 2 reale