A nice little surprise on Labor Day

[diggerdeeper]

Found this little Spanish beauty in a park I've hunted off and on for 40 years. Being roughly the size of a dime , but a tad thinner, this 1/2 Reale was about 5 -6 inches deep and was almost missed. At first I thought the date was 1787, but closer inspection shows it could be 1767.King Charles III reigned from about 1758 to 1790, so either year is possible. I never found anything this old in the park before, so who knows how it got there. It's only the second piece of Spanish silver I've found

 

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[trapperart]

Congrats on the half real

 

[Tommy G]

Great find, with some pretty nice detail! Isn't it amazing what you can still find at such a heavily hunted site?

 

[wagbert]

Great find! It would be 1787. The design for the 1767 date would still be the "Pillars & Globes". Nice condition too.
Best of Luck,
Phil

 

[ScubaDetector]

Very nice old Spanish silver. Sweet!

 

[Gridwalker306]

Man that's a really nice silver!