A little metal detecting between deer hunts

limblips

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

PrchJrkr

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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.
Arrrh! He found the booty!
 

limblips

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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.
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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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.
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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