🥇 BANNER A new colonial spot gives me French and multiple Spanish silver coins.

[Aureus]

Got a new permission in an area I always wanted to explore. After spending almost 2 hours on the field without any signals I finally started hitting some nail signals and noticing pottery and brick laying around towards the edge of the field. Did around 12 hours in all exploring this new hot spot with some great results.

My best find was without a doubt a douzain Henri III of France from 1570's. It's countermarked with a Fleur de Lys stamp dating to the monetary reform of 1640 which makes it even more special in my eyes. It's the first time I find a French hammered in North America since 2016



Than, an other good silver. 1 Reale Carolus III of Spain 1780



Some more colonial silver pieces, one of them appears to be a piece of an engraved silver spoon.




Some colonial coppers, unfortunately half of them were in a pretty bad state.



Some survived pretty well.



One heart breaker was my first Woods Hibernia that was barely ok to ID



Second day and second hunt on that spot. Even more coppers.



Unfortunately most weren't in a great shape.



Than an other colonial silver. Carolus III of Spain 2 Reales 1786. Seems to have burned at one point, was really difficult to clean.





An other first for me. Denmark 1 Skilling 1771



So in all, I got around 30 coins from that spot with some French and Spanish silver, Machin's Mills, Connecticut and early US

Relics weren't as abundant, a part from around 100 flat buttons and an unknown monetary weight. If someone has an idea about I'd appreciate the info.




Thanks for the comments.

 

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[Steve in PA]

Amazing site you found. Must have had a lot of 18th century activity.

 

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[grasshopper]

Wow!! quite a haul. congrats on some great finds!!

 

[Aureus]

Drooling on my keyboard!

Banner vote in!

Thanks for your vote PoE

 

[Aureus]

Wow what a great hunt over a couple of days. The stamped silver is top shelf material-pure eye candy. Now the averages of coppers to silvers is really good.
Even if you're not able to get out again this would have a person dreaming till the next season. Congrats on the spectacular recoveries.

Thanks pepperj. Yes, I was really impressed by copper to silver ratio. Plus, there's a bunch of silver objects I have found over there. Whoever lived at that spot had some money.

 

[Gene Mean]

Congratulations and good for you! That must have been so damn exciting to pull those out of the ground. Thanks for posting.

 

[Aureus]

Fantastic find.
I really like that counter stamp. That really ramps up the likeability meter.

I agree. Those are pretty rare

 

[Aureus]

That is just incredible! I can't even fathom finding stuff like. Congratulations!

Thanks dagaro17

 

[Aureus]

An "Aureus" was a Roman gold coin. A great name for such a successful treasure hunter. Now for some Gold! Maybe some Half Joes?

That would be my dream. Haven't found any gold coins yet.

 

[Aureus]

Wow!!!! Super Awesome!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!! Banner Hunt!!!!!

Thanks Digger RJ

 

[Aureus]

Aureus, just too unbelievable. Question how do you clean your coins. Went to old CCC camp in South Carolina this week. Really hard to find actual camp site. Friend, earlier had found many silver coins. I got a old belt buckle and bullets and small coins. Gary

Thanks for the comment Garypederson. I usually clean coppers with cold peroxide than seal with Renaissance wax. Silver doesn't usually need much cleaning, just a 30 sec in lemon juice usually does the trick. The 2 Reales coin made me work a lot more, I had to do both, backing soda and lemon juice. Backing soda is something I usually try to avoid for silver, but this coin was a goner otherwise.

 

[park pirate]

Wow outstanding hunt Aureus

 

[Aureus]

When time has, post up a photo of the buttons and anything else of interest from the hunt. (no clean up needed-dirty is cool)
Once again a site to remember for sure.
I've only had one site that produced the quantity - couple dozen coppers and two silver (six pence/shilling) some military. It's pasture/hay field so hope of a plow.

I agree, sites that produce so much are crazy rare, I've only had one that came close to it. This one beats my previous one in age and quality plus silver.
I'm not certain I'll be making many more posts on Tnet, I have already stopped writing them since summer. It's usually a lot of work and most of the better posts go into oblivion pretty fast, so I don't see the reason to continue. I'll try to post whatever I still find on that new spot in the comments of this one and after that just leave all together. Here's an other colonial silver piece I found there, it is also engraved.


Plus a first one for me, marked lead bale seal.



I'll try to get those flat buttons together for a group pic in a few days. Those were the only ones that had design.

 

[Aureus]

Holy *****. That is incredible. Wish we had history like that in my neck of the woods. Well done!!

Thanks washingtonian

 

[Aureus]

Congratulations

Thanks vince76

 

[Aureus]

What a mind boggling assembly of finds! CONGRATULATIONS!

Thanks Wildcat1750

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

WOW ... congrats on the FANTASTIC finds !

 

[Locke]

What a magnificent haul! Love the counter stamped silver!!!

 

[Iron Patch]

Now that's a fun looking weekend! Tho Douzain is the clear winner and you got decent detail on the coin and a perfect stamp, which is definitely not always the case for these.

 

[CRUSADER]

I agree, sites that produce so much are crazy rare, I've only had one that came close to it. This one beats my previous one in age and quality plus silver.
I'm not certain I'll be making many more posts on Tnet, I have already stopped writing them since summer. It's usually a lot of work and most of the better posts go into oblivion pretty fast, so I don't see the reason to continue. I'll try to post whatever I still find on that new spot in the comments of this one and after that just leave all together. Here's an other colonial silver piece I found there, it is also engraved.
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Plus a first one for me, marked lead bale seal.

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I'll try to get those flat buttons together for a group pic in a few days. Those were the only ones that had design.

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Hi,
Its a marked Lead Cloth Seal. Had quite a few. To do with how many yards bundled up etc..

 

[dts52]

Outstanding! Congratulations.
dts