After a nice weekend in Long Island at the Southampton historical society's ADT hunt I got the chance to hunt a potato field that I obtained permission to hunt before heading home. From the moment I pulled up onto this field I was in awe. It just looked like the field of dreams and a detectorists paradise. And I soon found out how right I was. Within five minutes I dug an early flat button. Within ten minutes an early copper that is not yet identified. Then 45 minutes in a real deep 12-47/48 hit. It would not pinpoint and was sometimes a one way hit. So I dug a nice big plug so as to not harm any potential target and I found that real pretty shiny silver disc you see in the top right corner.
It is a 1826 Spanish 2 reale I believe. A once in a lifetime find for me or maybe not. After digging that coin I must have called everyone I know to brag about it. And continued to swing across the field of dreams. I did not have alot of time left before dark and I still had to backtrack to Montauk where my boss owns a house he kindly let me stay at for the weekend, get showered, eat dinner and pack the car for the 4 hour plus ride back home. So I thought to myself one more good hit and I'm calling it quits. Literally 3 more steps and I get a really loud hit. 12-44 I think and I'm thinking maybe trash?? From a whopping 1 inch down pops this 1785 2 reale. My oldest silver to date. The 2 Spanish silvers posted here may be beat up a little from the 200 plus years of farming but I will always remember these coins because they played an important role in our history and well they are a first for me and they certainly made my year!!! Thanks for looking and HH Etrac Joe
It is a 1826 Spanish 2 reale I believe. A once in a lifetime find for me or maybe not. After digging that coin I must have called everyone I know to brag about it. And continued to swing across the field of dreams. I did not have alot of time left before dark and I still had to backtrack to Montauk where my boss owns a house he kindly let me stay at for the weekend, get showered, eat dinner and pack the car for the 4 hour plus ride back home. So I thought to myself one more good hit and I'm calling it quits. Literally 3 more steps and I get a really loud hit. 12-44 I think and I'm thinking maybe trash?? From a whopping 1 inch down pops this 1785 2 reale. My oldest silver to date. The 2 Spanish silvers posted here may be beat up a little from the 200 plus years of farming but I will always remember these coins because they played an important role in our history and well they are a first for me and they certainly made my year!!! Thanks for looking and HH Etrac Joe
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