BOOYEAH! Hunt of the Year!! Spanish Silver!!

[romeo-1]

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!

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[pepperj]

Great hunt Romeo with the silver and the buckle it'll be a day to remember for a longtime.

 

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[7creeks]

Great finds...Big congrats

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

There are two FANTASTIC pieces of Silver. AWESOME !

I'm with Bill, I think I'd rather have the buckle, it's beautiful.

It is amazing what comes from sites that have been hunted so many times.

 

[romeo-1]

I agree...the buckle trumps the cob...but just barely!

There are two FANTASTIC pieces of Silver. AWESOME !

I'm with Bill, I think I'd rather have the buckle, it's beautiful.

It is amazing what comes from sites that have been hunted so many times.

 

[The Patriot]

All I can say is Wow....2 8 reales and now 2 cobs....your in one sweet area...I'm still hoping to pop out a nice cob this year...
congrats buddy, again well deserved!

 

[Iron Patch]

I agree...the buckle trumps the cob...but just barely!

No freakin way.

 

[romeo-1]

No freakin way.

I've already got a cob...but this is my first solid silver buckle...slight edge to the buckle!

 

[Iron Patch]

I've already got a cob...but this is my first solid silver buckle...slight edge to the buckle!

Maybe a solid silver buckle completely intact, and especially if it was marked, would beat a cob... but definitely not that one. We can agree to disagree, but I don't see them even being close.

 

[romeo-1]

Maybe a solid silver buckle completely intact, and especially if it was marked, would beat a cob... but definitely not that one. We can agree to disagree, but I don't see them even being close.

I won't agree to that...

 

[Iron Patch]

I won't agree to that...

Well I hope you just keep finding cobs then.... how's that!

 

[romeo-1]

Well I hope you just keep finding cobs then.... how's that!

Curses!!

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

To each his own. But my opinion is eye appeal there is no contest. I'll admit I don't know much of the rarity either, but there are over 100 1R silver cobs for sale on ebay can. right now, and ZERO decent colonial silver buckles.

Looks better, and it seems much harder to come by.

 

[Iron Patch]

To each his own. But my opinion is eye appeal there is no contest. I'll admit I don't know much of the rarity either, but there are over 100 1R silver cobs for sale on ebay can. right now, and ZERO decent colonial silver buckles.

Looks better, and it seems much harder to come by.

That means very little. How many valuable Colonial coppers are on Ebay worth hundreds or thousands of dollars compared to zero buckles? Does that make the buckle better?

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

That means very little. How many valuable Colonial coppers are on Ebay worth hundreds or thousands of dollars compared to zero buckles? Does that make the buckle better?

No, not better than a coin worth hundreds, and certainly not thousands.

Yes, there's definitely a few colonial coppers in the hundreds to over 1000 for sale, all the state coppers, fugio etc.

My statement that the buckle "seems much harder to come by" I think is quite logical. While what is for sale any one day may indeed mean very little, it's got to be at least a decent indicator.

 

[Iron Patch]

No, not better than a coin worth hundreds, and certainly not thousands.

Yes, there's definitely a few colonial coppers in the hundreds to over 1000 for sale, all the state coppers, fugio etc.

My statement that the buckle "seems much harder to come by" I think is quite logical. While what is for sale any one day may indeed mean very little, it's got to be at least a decent indicator.

If you like it, you like it, but there's lots of misc. stuff that's harder to come by in the context you're using so I'm not sure what that has to do with it being better. To me it's just an incomplete relic and had I dug it, it would have only registered above the neat factor because it's silver. I think some of you guys contracted that nasty virus that was around a couple years back.... ColonialkirkbucklechapeK1n1

 

[romeo-1]

If you like it, you like it, but there's lots of misc. stuff that's harder to come by in the context you're using so I'm not sure what that has to do with it being better. To me it's just an incomplete relic and had I dug it, it would have only registered above the neat factor because it's silver. I think some of you guys contracted that nasty virus that was around a couple years back.... ColonialkirkbucklechapeK1n1

Hey! There's a big difference between an ornately decorated silver buckle, which is at least a couple hundrend years old and a broken chape...now if it were a silver chape...hmmmm.

Heading back there this evening for hopefully one more shot before the crop goes in...unless it's been planted since Wednesday...fingers crossed!

 

[Iron Patch]

Hey! There's a big difference between an ornately decorated silver buckle, which is at least a couple hundrend years old and a broken chape...now if it were a silver chape...hmmmm.

Heading back there this evening for hopefully one more shot before the crop goes in...unless it's been planted since Wednesday...fingers crossed!

I'd bet there's another Rev War button there somewhere. How sweet would it be to dig another Dragoons.

Pewters, especially the rougher ones, are notorious for coming out as some of the last finds at a site.

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

I'd bet there's another Rev War button there somewhere. How sweet would it be to dig another Dragoons.

Pewters, especially the rougher ones, are notorious for coming out as some of the last finds at a site.

I'd bet the other shoe buckle is there too. Now would that ever make a nice display.
ZDD

 

[Iron Patch]

I'd bet the other shoe buckle is there too. Now would that ever make a nice display.
ZDD

Tell ya what, you guys dig every old shoe buckle in NS and leave the path clear for me to grab those silver cobs!

I can only recall one local (Maritimes) dug silver buckle that had the extreme wow factor. It was a working condition French knee buckle, dated turn of the century maybe as late as 1720s, and was hallmarked with many marks. Now that is something that would leave most cobs in the dust, and sure would be nice to see another show up.