Amazing early French silver hunt! Bucket list 1,2 and 3.

[Aureus]

Hi everyone. It's my first post on this forum as I usually go one the Canadian Metal detecting one. Some members invited me to post here so here it goes.

Had a most amazing hunt to date even thou I had some very good finds in the past (people here who know me from other forum will confirm)

On a hunt in Montreal pulled 3 early french silvers.

The first one is a Louis XV child 1/5 Ecu 1715-1722 (it's double struck on an older coin I believe,so no date)
An other was a clipped silver coin that seems to be a Louis XIV (1643-1715) with the Fleur de Lys counter stamp as to be used only in New France and the French colonies.
But it's the third one that made me fall on my chair...
BLANC COURONNE CHARLES VIII 1483-1493 !!!!!! Then Iron Patch helped me ID my coin (as I was searching in the 1600-1700 range) I thought he was kidding me, maybe I had something crazy in my ear... Than he says those coins were in use for over 200 years after being struck because of the coin shortage,especially in New France. Just amazing, not in my wildest dreams would I hope to find one here.

 

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[toasted]

Nice looking coins that I will never see down here. Congrats

 

[Mackaydon]

Great finds; and Welcome to Treasure Net !!
You may find more of your friends here:
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Don......

 

[Dust Eater]

So much old silver! Hats off to you!

 

[Goldiver]

Welcome to Tnet. Fantastic old silver! Keep it coming!

Steve

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds and Welcome Aboard!

 

[RelicMedic]

Absolutely crazy find Anton! !! If you had been here longer and had more Posts, I'm sure this would be up on the banner. You'll just have to settle with find of the month and find of the year on CMD. lol. Incredible! With the stuff you've been finding, I'd make it a point to build up your posts on here. Read up on "banners and how they work" . Pretty confident that the Jesuit ring would have made it as well.

 

[cjon455]

Wow, those are amazing!, congrats

 

[ARC]

Banner(s).
Fantastic finds... Well done.

 

[ironhorse]

What an entrance!!!
Those are some stellar finds!

 

[david680]

Spectacular! Glad you came over to share this with us. Any of those alone would have made a great hunt!

 

[JeffInMass]

Welcome aboard!! Sweet finds, the likes of which I've never seen- Congrats!!

-- Jeff --

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[trapperart]

Welcome to the forum and congrats on some great finds. Hope to see more from you in the future

 

[jwp1964]

Wow! Amazing old silver finds! Congrats.


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[CRUSADER]

Looks more like something I would get over here. CONGRATS - They all look great.

 

[bonepicker]

Wow. Welcome to the forum, and those are some super nice looking old French silvers for N. America.
A double strike, a clipped counter-stamp, and a 500+ year old hammered.!!!!!!!!!
I'd kill to find any one of those, and you dug 3. Amazing.
Banner!!

 

[Iron Patch]

Can only be described as epic. Any early French silver is good, but three together, and every one a great find it its own way.

Your worked 15 Deniers would have had a date in the range of 1692-1705, but 1700s date are quite rare, so likely was 1600s. I'd be quite ok with losing the date as the coin now has character and in my opinion a better find. They are not rare coins to buy, so it's a more special find that way.

 

[Tnmountains]

Glad you came over here and shared your rare funds of silver!

 

[Iron Patch]

Your "1/5 ECU" is either a 1/4, or a 1/2, and I only see a listing for 1/2 for Rennes mint, and the only year listed is 1716. What is the diameter?

Also, having a look again, it's not an over-struck coin, at least that's not what's causing the most distortion in the image, it's actually double struck... as the word DOMIN is on there twice. What I don't understand, and will need a lesson for, is how the word can be doubled, but the center design of the coin and much of the edge is not doubled. The only answer that makes sense to be is these were made with two dies striking them and the one used on the edge was struck twice. It's cool, and crazy you would get two such interesting coins along with hammered one.