A little metal detecting between deer hunts

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Found this in a farm field. My oldest coin. Spanish 2 reales from 1731. No deer but I'm happy anyway.
 

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Kyle

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limblips said:
Found this in a farm field. My oldest coin. Spanish 2 reales from 1731. No deer but I'm happy anyway.
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That’s really cool.

What area are you searching in?

I wasn’t aware of any Spanish colonies or activity around here, unless perhaps it’s fragments of a pirate treasure.
 
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Kyle said:
That’s really cool.

What area are you searching in?

I wasn’t aware of any Spanish colonies or activity around here, unless perhaps it’s fragments of a pirate treasure.
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Arrrh! He found the booty!
 
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limblips

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Kyle said:
That’s really cool.

What area are you searching in?

I wasn’t aware of any Spanish colonies or activity around here, unless perhaps it’s fragments of a pirate treasure.
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In Colonial times there was no U.S. currency. Although some colonies made their own money the first U.S. mint was built in 1792 prior to then legal tenders used were French, British and Spanish. This coin was found on the Eastern Shore.
 
Clem72

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Kyle said:
That’s really cool.

What area are you searching in?

I wasn’t aware of any Spanish colonies or activity around here, unless perhaps it’s fragments of a pirate treasure.
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No Spanish colonies, but plenty of Spanish silver coinage used in this area before they started minting their own (silver is silver after all). I have found a few cut reales, no whole.
 
Merlin99

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Clem72 said:
No Spanish colonies, but plenty of Spanish silver coinage used in this area before they started minting their own (silver is silver after all). I have found a few cut reales, no whole.
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Speaking of silver, 7/11 gave me two silver quarters the other day, a ‘32 and a ‘62, I think somebody raided daddy’s piggy bank.
 
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Did you have them checked out they look in to good of shape to be a couple hundred years o
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They are 90% silver so they don't corrode badly. The details are strong and show little sign of wear so I believe it was in only circulation for a short time. All I did to clean it was a warm water wash with a soft toothbrush and rubbed with olive oil. Value is $75-$150 to the right buyer, priceless to me!
 
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limblips

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Correction. After cleaning with a toothpick to get the dirt off the coin is an 1811 Classic Head large cent. Prices all over the place but due to being in the ground for a few hundred years the value is greatly diminished. It is valuable to me. It is the oldest US coin I have found.
 
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Merlin99 said:
Speaking of silver, 7/11 gave me two silver quarters the other day, a ‘32 and a ‘62, I think somebody raided daddy’s piggy bank.
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I used to get silver coins once in a while at the PO. They sounded different hitting the cup of coins, so always knew they were there immediately.
 
black dog

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limblips said:
Correction. After cleaning with a toothpick to get the dirt off the coin is an 1811 Classic Head large cent. Prices all over the place but due to being in the ground for a few hundred years the value is greatly diminished. It is valuable to me. It is the oldest US coin I have found.
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Thats awesome.
 
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