Uhhhhh. Did I just eyeball find my first Real?

[The Aluminum Monster]

Hi all.

I am shaking. I have a rare day off so I was able to go for a walk in the park with my gal and my dogs. My gal and I have a competition running this year on who can find the most money with JUST EYEBALL finds only. Coins on the ground, on floors in markets, coinstar, etc. NO DETECTOR FINDS. The park where we walk them is a couple hundred years old but it is great for finding surface coins. She walks them more so she is kicking my butt.

I tell you this because obviously we are just scouring the ground in the spirit of competition. We have had some heavy rain the last two days here in New Bedford. As we were walking up a hill on a paved path, I was checking out the "canyons" that the rain had created on the side of the path. I always tell my gal that I have a gut feeling that I am going to find a SLQ after a rain storm some day.

Well, I saw a round object halfway sticking out of the ground in one of the runoffs. I grabbed it assuming it was a dime and pulled this out. My head has been swimming for a half hour now. Thoughts?

The back is completely slick but I can take a photo of it if you would think it would help. Is this my first Real? Should I sell my detectors and just use my eyeballs? I can make out the CA and the DE of DEI and the 1776 is obvious. This would be far and away my oldest find as I am not in the 1700s club.

I wish I had my phone on me to take a picture in the park but we work different shifts and that's "our time", so phones aren't our thing. And, you know, I WASN'T EXPECTING TO FIND THIS BECAUSE I WASN'T TREASURE HUNTING!

Thanks for any help!

-Jay

 

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[Kurios1]

Yep, thousands of dollars in gear here but, my eyeballs have still got to be my best recovery equipment. Great job keeping those peepers scanning the turf. Well done and congrats on scoring 1700's Spanish silver. Still "looking" for my first Spanish silver & 1700's coin. Kurios1

 

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[Reiser]

Congrats!!!!! And, good eye!

 

[deershed]

Sweet find!! You. Should get credit for extra coins with that find. Lol

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

Great find. Isn't finding Spanish silver GREAT?

You said it! I hope I didn't use up all my treasure hunting juju before my two day excursion begins! Thank you!

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

Congratulations on a bucket lister that most of us dream about. You da man.

Thank you so much. My brain has been in the clouds during my 5 hour drive to Maine. I didn't even care about the one hour traffic delay going through Boston's night time construction! I mean, I wish I had known about it ahead of time, but, whatevs.

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

Thank you A2, Kurios and Reiser.

My personal white whale is a seated ANYTHING. I am 98 percent convinced that you good folks of TNET got together right before I joined and decided to make up this fake coinage to trick "the first new guy that signs up" and that guy was me. We all keep on chugging along. I have until sun down on Saturday to get my seated in Maine AND hopefully a gram of gold while running some dirt. It's ambitious but I am fired up now. Happy hunting to you all!

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

Sweet find!! You. Should get credit for extra coins with that find. Lol

That would be wonderful. She is winning something like ten dollars to four. She went on a three day tear of finding melting snowbank dollar bills. I would wake up to texts saying "Amy 100 - Jay 0" The loser of this competition has to buy dinner the first time we go out next year. It is fitting that I am losing since I pay for dinners anyways.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the great eye ball find

 

[Bisquitlips]

Fantastic!

Now go buy a lottery ticket or two!

 

[Steve in PA]

1776 Half Real, congratulations! We used to have found money competitions when we were kids. As soon as the snow melted we would be looking under the parking meters and along the sidewalks. My brother did eyeball an 1803 half real once when we were looking for arrow heads.

 

[CRUSADER]

1776 Half Real, congratulations! We used to have found money competitions when we were kids. As soon as the snow melted we would be looking under the parking meters and along the sidewalks. My brother did eyeball an 1803 half real once when we were looking for arrow heads.

Agreed saw the 1776 straight away.

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

1776 Half Real, congratulations! We used to have found money competitions when we were kids. As soon as the snow melted we would be looking under the parking meters and along the sidewalks. My brother did eyeball an 1803 half real once when we were looking for arrow heads.

Thank you! She's not always sold on going metal detecting but she does like monies and treasure. It's been a much easier way to transitioning her into my obsession.

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

Fantastic!

Now go buy a lottery ticket or two!

I'm not trying to bump this old thread but I *did* buy two $10 scratch tickets last night. One for me and one for my gal. She won $15. Me (we will split it)

 

[Indiana Mark]

We should start a Spanish silver surface find club.....

 

[Col.Philo95thNY]

Wonderful feeling to find these. I dug one when a group of us in NYC, about 6 or 8 hunters were at a spot. I lined up with a very large tree and proceeded to walk west, and bamm... I dug a 1787 half real at 6 inches, and the great part about it, was that not 8 inches from the real, there was a 1794 Large Cent in very nice condition... WTG... a Reale sticking half way out of the soil... There must have been some serious erosion where water first hit the spot, and then the wind exposed the coin I say that because I snag a Walker sitting half way in the soil also, off a slight slope by a tree hat fell over from the erosion of the soil... just my two cents...


Philo

 

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[kenstein]

$1000 scratch-off?

 

[Trezurehunter]

I have to agree. It looks like a Half Reale in your hand. I have only dug one myself, but the size seems to be the same as mine along with the thinness of the coin.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Congrats!

I just found my first one, and it was no walk in the park for me. That is an awesome find and great story.