02-02-2016, 01:13 PM
02-02-2016, 01:50 PM
Great video and very cool coin, congratulations! WTG -
Thanks for the information about the coin, interesting for sure
Thanks for the information about the coin, interesting for sure
02-02-2016, 05:37 PM
Awesome find Chris! I bet that was really exciting to find and learn about. Good luck finding a French coin! I'm sure you will
02-02-2016, 06:16 PM
Thank you guys. Too kind! Here's hoping for some monnaie de francais but I'm not holding my breath. I think I'd be happy enough with Spanish, US, British or Irish. That's about the extent of the silver around here. Canadian too obviously, but nothing older than 1840ish.
02-02-2016, 07:25 PM
The history within the find. It's most intriguing .
02-02-2016, 08:37 PM
No SH%&!!! Man, great find Relic!!!!! Fabulous id on it being a cast counterfeit! And that's a pence or penny, ain't it? To think that they were casting pennies tells you how much a red cent must've been worth!!!
Ed
Ed
02-02-2016, 09:21 PM
Thank you Ed! It's a half penny. Pretty crazy when you think about the need to fake a half penny back in the 1720's/30's.
02-04-2016, 01:23 AM
Very Cool!! Congrats on a very unique find!!
02-04-2016, 09:42 AM
Wow 1700s coin! That is freaky AWESOME! Hope you find more out of that area!
02-04-2016, 06:00 PM
Thank you guys! It's kind of interesting...the 8 reales from this field were about 8 inches down and there is a burn layer beginning at about 7-8" in that spot. I moved up the field and just dug a random hole to see if there was a burn layer and I hit it at 12". When the field was worked back in the late 1700's- 1800's, there must have been a build up of soil in the middle of the field. I wonder what could be down there! Unless I use a PI Machine, I'll never know, and even then, the whole field is a blanket of nails