shanegalang
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Hello all, it's been a great while since I've posted here. Buckleboy is the true writer of our group and usually post our hunts and finds but today he and his wonderful wife, diggergirl had other obligations that left me to do the digging. I set out early to beat the heat and rain but was glad I went. I dug a coin I have never seen on Tnet or anywhere else for that matter. We often dig 1 reals down here but they are usually the Mexican variety of Spanish silver. When I pulled this one from the dirt today i first pawned it off as a religious medallion that we so often find. I didn't bother to remove much of the mud on it and just put it in my finds pouch to check out later. Well i got to the truck and rinsed it off with water and was surprised to find that it was indeed a coin. A coin I had never seen before. I could read "Firme Y Feliz Por La Union" on the front next to a standing lady holding a staff with a cap on top of it. On the back read "Repub-Peruanna-M-1R and right in the middle of a hole that had been punched thru it, "18?7".
I got home and did a Google search that turned up the information that what i was holding is a one real from Peru!! I contacted a coin collector friend of mine who did a little research and found that these were minted from 1825-1855 with some missing years in between. He said that the "M" on the coin suggest that it was minted in Lima therefore making it a 1847........how ever that works, works for me
Have any of you ever seen one? Dug one? I also dug a silver gilded fork that has the sharpest tines I have ever felt poke me in the thigh while carrying it around a sugarcane field in my life!! And a piece of a spur that BB tells me is a gooseneck type, possibly confederate but more than likely civilian. Also a .44 CW era pistol bullet and a couple of small musket balls. Cheers, shanegalang the canefield bandits!
I got home and did a Google search that turned up the information that what i was holding is a one real from Peru!! I contacted a coin collector friend of mine who did a little research and found that these were minted from 1825-1855 with some missing years in between. He said that the "M" on the coin suggest that it was minted in Lima therefore making it a 1847........how ever that works, works for me
Have any of you ever seen one? Dug one? I also dug a silver gilded fork that has the sharpest tines I have ever felt poke me in the thigh while carrying it around a sugarcane field in my life!! And a piece of a spur that BB tells me is a gooseneck type, possibly confederate but more than likely civilian. Also a .44 CW era pistol bullet and a couple of small musket balls. Cheers, shanegalang the canefield bandits!
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