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<p>[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 1684412, member: 44140"]Wow thats awesome. I live in CT and now you got me wanting to take out the Metdet, and go find some gold spanish coins. If I found something I would be afraid I would have a heart attack right there on the beach. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not for nothing but it were that old and copper it would be badly corroded. This seems in pretty good shape which would suggest gold or gold alloy. Gold as most know resists corrosion, and even gold coins from antiquity can be found in high mint state.</p><p><br /></p><p>My friend, I would think hard though, if you coin is legit, then it might be a part of a wreck and there might be more. Has anyone looked, may be some are washing up. I probably wouldn't have left the site for a couple of days and called work and request some days off, get trusted friends and family for a good time metal detecting on that beach. Imagine hidden pirate treasure. I was reading an article about a couple of guys who found a coin or two in a field on the Jersey Island near England. Then 30 years later they found a super hoard of buried 1st cent. BC celtic staters something like a mass of 50,000 coins worth millions. The likelihood of this happening and probably close to zero. Although it is not outside the realm of possibility there could be more and maybe a lot more Spanish coins on or near that beach or in the water.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 1684412, member: 44140"]Wow thats awesome. I live in CT and now you got me wanting to take out the Metdet, and go find some gold spanish coins. If I found something I would be afraid I would have a heart attack right there on the beach. Not for nothing but it were that old and copper it would be badly corroded. This seems in pretty good shape which would suggest gold or gold alloy. Gold as most know resists corrosion, and even gold coins from antiquity can be found in high mint state. My friend, I would think hard though, if you coin is legit, then it might be a part of a wreck and there might be more. Has anyone looked, may be some are washing up. I probably wouldn't have left the site for a couple of days and called work and request some days off, get trusted friends and family for a good time metal detecting on that beach. Imagine hidden pirate treasure. I was reading an article about a couple of guys who found a coin or two in a field on the Jersey Island near England. Then 30 years later they found a super hoard of buried 1st cent. BC celtic staters something like a mass of 50,000 coins worth millions. The likelihood of this happening and probably close to zero. Although it is not outside the realm of possibility there could be more and maybe a lot more Spanish coins on or near that beach or in the water.[/QUOTE]
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