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BOOYEAH! Hunt of the Year!! Spanish Silver!! - PICS ADDED
Hunt of the year...at least so far. I had a couple hours this evening so I went back to a field I've been hunting for several years. This field was disced a couple weeks ago but hasn't been planted yet. As soon as I started detecting I knew it was going to be a good hunt. When the soil is loose on this field it wreaks havoc with the tones of my F75...but it's rained a few times since it was disced so the ground was bare and well compacted. This is the field where I take everyone because there is always a chance at a great target. One of my best finds, a King's American Dragoon's Loyalist button came from this site as well as dozens of coppers and relics. The one thing that has not come from this field was a silver...until tonight!
I started popping a couple harness buckles and a musket ball and decided to try a section I hadn't spent much time on. Got a great signal and popped out one of the nicest buckles I've ever dug, a small silver shoe buckle...intact! I thought this would have been the find of the hunt but I continued on for another hour. Eventually I wandered back to the main site, the area that's been pounded the most. Heading back towards the car I got a weak signal in the silver range...flipped the earth and there was my second Spanish silver cob! It's a 1663 half real...my oldest coin yet! Beat my avatar cob by 11 years!
Scroll down for better, cleaned up pics!
Hunt of the year...at least so far. I had a couple hours this evening so I went back to a field I've been hunting for several years. This field was disced a couple weeks ago but hasn't been planted yet. As soon as I started detecting I knew it was going to be a good hunt. When the soil is loose on this field it wreaks havoc with the tones of my F75...but it's rained a few times since it was disced so the ground was bare and well compacted. This is the field where I take everyone because there is always a chance at a great target. One of my best finds, a King's American Dragoon's Loyalist button came from this site as well as dozens of coppers and relics. The one thing that has not come from this field was a silver...until tonight!
I started popping a couple harness buckles and a musket ball and decided to try a section I hadn't spent much time on. Got a great signal and popped out one of the nicest buckles I've ever dug, a small silver shoe buckle...intact! I thought this would have been the find of the hunt but I continued on for another hour. Eventually I wandered back to the main site, the area that's been pounded the most. Heading back towards the car I got a weak signal in the silver range...flipped the earth and there was my second Spanish silver cob! It's a 1663 half real...my oldest coin yet! Beat my avatar cob by 11 years!
Scroll down for better, cleaned up pics!
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I would also like to see a cleaned pic of that sweet silver buckle. Sounds like that field will never be hunted out.
I bet there is more silver around there, I picked up that NB coin in the same area but your coin is 200 years older and silver.
