techmaster
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- May 6, 2012
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Hi everyone !! I'm seeking help from all of you on my recent find in Nags Head, NC. On my week long vacation in the Outer Banks in early November, I spent several hours searching the beach after a powerful rain and high wind storm (nor easter)came through for 2 days. It tore up the beach, turning it into a metal detectors dream!!!
I found many coins and a large mans 14K bracelet. My ultimate find was a Spanish 1650's cob, found at the base of the beach cut away from the erosion !!
After a lot of internet searching (with some help), I came up with no coins matching what I have. Hundreds that all look alike, but nothing like what I have. Many are similar, close to mine with the markings, but never a match. I have narrowed it down to filippo IV 8 reales coin, in the 1650's. What I have read was the 1st coin of this type was hammered out but filippo IV soon ordered a 2nd design that came out in the mid 1650's because the silver or gold content of the 1st design was not "weighing out" with true amount of silver or gold content in each coin. He tried to eliminate counterfeit coins that were circulating with 2nd design.
Now it gets really interesting. When I found this coin 7" in the sand with my V3i, my VDI reading was a
+52 - +53 consistently!! The coin is not tarnished, looks like a silver coin but is not reading where all silver normally reads in the +90 area. Dropping this coin onto the table or countertop you should hear a definite "ring" to it. This coin sounds like an old copper penny !! +52 is in the copper range but also at the top end of the gold VDI scale.
Could this be white gold ?? Was the silver content or is Peruvian silver back then any different than the silver of this century
I would love some clarification on my nice find. My only other option is a coin dealer here in Eastern VA for some answers....
Thanks everyone!!
I found many coins and a large mans 14K bracelet. My ultimate find was a Spanish 1650's cob, found at the base of the beach cut away from the erosion !!
After a lot of internet searching (with some help), I came up with no coins matching what I have. Hundreds that all look alike, but nothing like what I have. Many are similar, close to mine with the markings, but never a match. I have narrowed it down to filippo IV 8 reales coin, in the 1650's. What I have read was the 1st coin of this type was hammered out but filippo IV soon ordered a 2nd design that came out in the mid 1650's because the silver or gold content of the 1st design was not "weighing out" with true amount of silver or gold content in each coin. He tried to eliminate counterfeit coins that were circulating with 2nd design. Now it gets really interesting. When I found this coin 7" in the sand with my V3i, my VDI reading was a
+52 - +53 consistently!! The coin is not tarnished, looks like a silver coin but is not reading where all silver normally reads in the +90 area. Dropping this coin onto the table or countertop you should hear a definite "ring" to it. This coin sounds like an old copper penny !! +52 is in the copper range but also at the top end of the gold VDI scale.
Could this be white gold ?? Was the silver content or is Peruvian silver back then any different than the silver of this centuryI would love some clarification on my nice find. My only other option is a coin dealer here in Eastern VA for some answers....
Thanks everyone!!
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