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Well maybe not stunning, but certainly sweet.
Today was a great day for me for sure.... My wife Maggie and our daughter headed for home..., North Carolina for the weekend to meet up with Maggies 2011 girls Cheerleader Team she is coaching... I had the green flag to detect for a few hours this morning while they practiced, so I grabbed my gear and headed to a site I have been to time and time again, always bringing a significant or interesting relic home. I fired up the Ford, and headed a short trek West outside of town. I arrived shortly after 9 am, and the sun had already made it's strong presence known, with temps rising fast. I cranked up the trusty Etrac, and hooked up the new Coiltek Joey 10x5 coil. I then selected my settings I felt the dirt was suggesting I should be running, and ran my ritual auto noise cancel. The Etrac notified me with a unique tone, that it was ready to hunt. It wasn't long after, I heard the siren of the familiar silver war cry, that pierced my through my Detectorp pro Uni probe headphones suggesting, "dig this!" I carefully cut the horseshoe shape plug, flipped the the over, I couldn't believe what I saw.. "Whoa, I thought" " Sweet...Could this be what I think it is?" After gently retrieving what looked like a large Reale, , I held it up to my Bausch & Lomb 10x Loupe, blinked and focused in, then took a deep breath. I saw what looked to be the crest of a Pisterene... 
I pulled the coin back and took a deep breath to reexamine....sure enough, I was right 
A really well preserved, 1723 Pisterene!! Folks, these don't come out too much better dug than this. I can't believe all the detail on this beauty. ....I have dug several of these clipped or cut or broken, but never a full one in such great shape in this date... This coin most likely found it's way into Virginia, through the James river area circa 1725 during violent times in America. It will display proudly in a display case, protected for kids to see an learn. Early in 1756 Mr. Farrar [minister of Easton in the Colony of Rhode Island] bought land for a
homestead…His farm and house were paid for largely with money that he borrowed. He sent at
one time a miscellaneous collection of moneys as indicated in the following curious receipt: -
Received of the Revd M. George Farrar, of Easton: two Double Loons, one Joanna, thirteen
Dollars, One pistorene, half a pistorene, Four English Shillings, Two black dogs, and three
halves.” (History of Easton, Chapter X.)
If you would like to learn more on this historic coin, try clicking here.
http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/CNL/Pistareens.pdf
Thanks for looking.
Mike
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