Dowsing Rod Finds 200 Year Old Silver

[BuckleBoy]

Yeah, a dowsing rod with a control box, seachcoil, and headphones!

Now that I have your attention... I went out for 11 hours today and dug 4 targets. Had a wild hair to go dig somewhere totally crazy that I'd never dug, way off away from any site we'd ever found, and almost in the backswamp. Here's the video.



Three of my targets were flat buttons (was pleased to see that one had full silver gilding, which almost never happens in the wet, soggy soil down here). After the first 2 hours I dug the first flat button and had eyeballed 2 clay pipe stems. At that point, I thought the area might have some potential. Around the 6 hours mark I got the half real. It's a holed 1808.



Then picked up two more flat buttons in the remaining 5 hours.

This is a nice milestone for our team, as it is the 60th Spanish Silver that my team and I have dug since 2012 and my personal 35th Real dug in Louisiana.



Best Wishes,

Buck

 

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[Erik in NJ]

Congrats on yet another Spanish silver - Carolus III....too much Spanish silver down there Buck, pls send some back up here!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Congrats on yet another Spanish silver - Carolus III....too much Spanish silver down there Buck, pls send some back up here!

You guys up there had the US mint, which caused Spanish Silver to circulate less in the early 1800s. Seems like it circulated much longer here, till the mid 1840s--when New Orleans mint coins started fulfilling the demand. That said, I think it's part of the reason we get lots of early 1800s reales, and also why we see lots of 1820s and even 1830s larger denominations which circulated down here. I'd love to live in a part of the US where I had a shot at digging a Draped Bust, but those early Philly coins will not show up down here. Virtually a 0% chance. Heck, I haven't even dug a large cent this year. None of us have. We only dig 1-2 coppers per year, if that tells you anything about the circulation of Philly coins in the Louisiana Territory. If NOLA minted copper coins, it'd be another story. I find it all fascinating...

-Buck

 

[ironhorse]

Ok dude, you almost had me going with that dowsing rod stuff, I'm not a believer but you'll find plenty that will say that it's legit, but if it were the cats ass, wouldn't everyone be doing that in stead of detecting?!?!

You're keeping the silvers on the right side of the ground still, great to see!

 

[sutphin]

Looks like your Spanish coin may have been nailed to an object at one time for good luck, check out this tree in ingleton north Yorkshire for seeing is believing . Nice find, vanzutphen

 

[texjim]

Sweet finds...

 

[Msbeepbeep]

You got me! I wanted to see a dowsing rod found coin. Awww,....let down.
Cool finds you silver Spanish coin finder you!

The button is awesome!

A wild hair, and totally crazy, hmmm......I'll have to try that sometime! Nice results!

 

[VOL1266-X]

Eleven hours in the heat and watching t-storms nearby-DEVOTED! WTG, Q.

 

[cjon455]

good job on that Spanish milestone!, I remember when I dug my 1 and only Spanish, such a great feeling

congrats buck, great hunt as always!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Ok dude, you almost had me going with that dowsing rod stuff, I'm not a believer but you'll find plenty that will say that it's legit, but if it were the cats ass, wouldn't everyone be doing that in stead of detecting?!?!

You're keeping the silvers on the right side of the ground still, great to see!

Haha, I knew that'd raise some eyebrows. Thanks, friend for your kind words. You aren't kidding about the dowsing. Either it's the best kept secret or...

I think I'll take Occam's Razor for 100, Alex!

 

[BuckleBoy]

You got me! I wanted to see a dowsing rod found coin. Awww,....let down.
Cool finds you silver Spanish coin finder you!

The button is awesome!

A wild hair, and totally crazy, hmmm......I'll have to try that sometime! Nice results!

Yep. Totally crazy, because I didn't think it'd work. But sometimes it takes that type of crazy thinking to be successful. Of course I could've wandered around for 30 hours out there and not passed over that coin, and it still wouldn't have changed the fact that there was something good to find. Perspective is easy if you got something good or nothing at all...

-Buck

 

[BuckleBoy]

Eleven hours in the heat and watching t-storms nearby-DEVOTED! WTG, Q.

Thanks my friend! Was a long, hot day!

 

[deershed]

Sweet Spanish silver!!

 

[BuckleBoy]

good job on that Spanish milestone!, I remember when I dug my 1 and only Spanish, such a great feeling

congrats buck, great hunt as always!

Thanks so much, cjon!

 

[UnderMiner]

Dang sweet find. Too bad it wasn't really a dowsing rod that did the finding though. I was certain that the laws of chance had finally allowed a dowsing rod to "locate" treasure just by the sheer amount of times that they failed to do so.

 

[park pirate]

Awesome..

 

[pepperj]

RESOLVE. There's no other word that would describe the hunt that you just did Buck. Congrats on getting yet another silver out of the ground, and I'm liking the holed looks of this one as it's well worn and has character.

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice Buck! Congrats on the Spanish real count as well. Also your explanation about mint location makes perfect sense. Another reason for the heavy use of Reals is the Spanish trade in the Gulf. Mexico City minted coins like yours were a close trip by ship. I guess that means they'll be more to find

Congrats Buck

Steve

 

[N.O. noir et d'or]

Congratulations on the milestones BB! You guys definitely earn them. Let us hope for many more to come!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

I'm sure your arm is about to fall off Buck after all that swinging and very little stopping to dig. I hate when that happens. At least you came home with a nice keeper. Congrats on reaching that milestone, and it sounds like you're probably gonna have to wait until the fall to add to your totals.