1776 Spanish Silver! - Western Indiana

[bcbirdman]

It has only been 3 weeks since I posted my first ever Spanish silver coin, an 1818 Ferdinand VII coin. Well here I am again somehow posting an even better coin that I found in a different field a few miles away! I'm absolutely stoked. This is easily my best find now, and the year 1776 makes it that much sweeter. The field I found it in has a few high spots and a few homesites mapped on the 1874 maps I've been using. Those mapped homesites have been detected in the past I assume because I found them and almost all there is is iron. So I kept walking and I discovered an unmapped homesite that probably predates 1874 (our earliest maps of the region). And it was sandy soil which was super fun to dig and preserved the relics amazingly. Some buttons were in near perfect shape. Also found an 1868 five cent coin and a pocket watch frame, another first for me.

 

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[oldmxrat]

Sweet bunch of finds for sure, congrats!

 

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[bcbirdman]

Most excellent finds! Congrats on Spanish silver # 2. PS- That shield nickel is in fantastic shape. I've only found a few over the past 10 years and they have all been toasted.

Thanks! The sandy soil in this field really helped preserve it I bet.

 

[bcbirdman]

Congrats on the silver and the buttons.
Liking the Thistle one, even the back is really nice.

I've found many undocumented early sites on another small rise in the same field.

Probably the first home before the they build the larger home.

I was wondering about this being the case (the first home before they build the larger one). Makes sense

 

[OldNorthwest]

It has only been 3 weeks since I posted my first ever Spanish silver coin, an 1818 Ferdinand VII coin. Well here I am again somehow posting an even better coin that I found in a different field a few miles away! I'm absolutely stoked. This is easily my best find now, and the year 1776 makes it that much sweeter. The field I found it in has a few high spots and a few homesites mapped on the 1874 maps I've been using. Those mapped homesites have been detected in the past I assume because I found them and almost all there is is iron. So I kept walking and I discovered an unmapped homesite that probably predates 1874 (our earliest maps of the region). And it was sandy soil which was super fun to dig and preserved the relics amazingly. Some buttons were in near perfect shape. Also found an 1868 five cent coin and a pocket watch frame, another first for me.

Awesome 1776 two reales! That's a popular date! Great other finds as well, you're on an amazing spot.

FYI, your first two reales is very likely a contemporary counterfeit, probably struck on a debased silver planchet. Such a counterfeit is actually rarer than the genuine coin! The fonts don't match the genuine issues and the pomegranates in the coat of are very crude and spaced wrong. If you ever have access to an XRF gun (sometimes coin shops have them) you can get a reading to test it.

 

[bcbirdman]

Awesome 1776 two reales! That's a popular date! Great other finds as well, you're on an amazing spot.

FYI, your first two reales is very likely a contemporary counterfeit, probably struck on a debased silver planchet. Such a counterfeit is actually rarer than the genuine coin! The fonts don't match the genuine issues and the pomegranates in the coat of are very crude and spaced wrong. If you ever have access to an XRF gun (sometimes coin shops have them) you can get a reading to test it.

Thanks for the info! I had my suspicions about it being counterfeit as well due to the green copper corrosion areas. Very cool!