🤩🤩 Recalling two very old Spanish coins recovered in 2023 💥💥🔥

[Mackaydon]

Y lo mejor del Año Nuevo para ti Jorgeke.
Don in SoCal

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Grab it through Amazon!

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Great finds and continued good luck in 2024 !

 

[smokeythecat]

Great finds. They're in good shape too. Oldest coin I found was a 3rd century Roman coin in New Jersey. The ships coming back from WWII used sand as ballast and they dumped it, with some artifacts in it. I don't know where it is at the moment.

 

[Almy]

Interesting finds and pictures, as usual. Gracias. Oddly, the oldest coin I have found is a 1 real minted in Mexico. 1736. Spanish small silver coins were used extensively in the early settlement of northeastern North America. I found this one at the site of a late 1700s home site. Many of these coins were holed, perhaps to help keep them from being lost by putting them on a string because they are so small and thin. It didn't work in this case but that was eventually to my benefit!

 

[Jorgeke]

Great finds and continued good luck in 2024 !

Thanks E Trac

 

[Jorgeke]

Great finds. They're in good shape too. Oldest coin I found was a 3rd century Roman coin in New Jersey. The ships coming back from WWII used sand as ballast and they dumped it, with some artifacts in it. I don't know where it is at the moment.

Smokey

Wooowww, it should be a nice oldest coin. Is it in good shape? Interesting the history of it.

Thanks for sharing, I hope we can see it when you find it, ask your wife, they know everything. ☺️

 

[Jorgeke]

Interesting finds and pictures, as usual. Gracias. Oddly, the oldest coin I have found is a 1 real minted in Mexico. 1736. Spanish small silver coins were used extensively in the early settlement of northeastern North America. I found this one at the site of a late 1700s home site. Many of these coins were holed, perhaps to help keep them from being lost by putting them on a string because they are so small and thin. It didn't work in this case but that was eventually to my benefit!

Almy,

Very interesting coin, congrats

Did you searching for more in the same area ?

I heard the same about those holes in them, fortunately did not work and you fund it.

Thanks for sharing, keep in touch

Keep detecting

Happy New detecting days

Jorgeke

 

[bkurent]

Awesome finds. Oldest coins I have found are 1715 Fleet Spanish coins, but no dates, just late 1600's to early 1700's gold and silver. Oldest coin with a date legible is a 1731 4 reale found in the Florida Keys off shore of a 1733 wrecksite.

 

[Almy]

Jorgeke: Thanks for the reply. I have detected about 20 of these sites, many of them multiple times, over about 20 years. I have found a great many coppers, a high percentage of them were British halfpennies and their counterfeits. But only 4 Spanish silvers (all minted in Mexico) and all in the 1700s and all well-worn. These 4 silvers came from different homesites, never more than one on to a site. They certainly were not as common as the coppers, or at least they were lost a lot less!
Please keep detecting and posting! I really enjoy your posts.
The ground is frozen here now, so it looks like detecting is over until spring.
Almy