My First 1700's Silver
02/21/16
On December 1st I had plans with a club member to hit a 1760's cellar hole that has yielded great results this year. We've pulled 13 coppers mostly from the early to mid 1700's. 6 pieces of US silver, 6+ Indian heads, and the usual suspects. Lead, Buckles, buttons, farm parts, harmonica reeds, etc.
We arrived and got started about 9:15 am. For the next 5 hours we recovered buttons, copper projectiles, lead ball, buckle pieces, and a few of what is. Then at 2:30 pm. I was close to our cars working slowly and I got what I thought might be an Indian Head Penny. It turned out to be our first copper of the day. There was a rose in the middle and we could see 172X. It was a 1722 Uncrowned Rosa Americana Penny.
10 minutes later and 30 feet away. Bang bang. Solid 10/35. Again I was thinking Indian Head Penny but the ferrous did seem a little high at 10. They normally come up as an 8 4-5" down. Silver !!!!!! and its Colonial :-) I've been Metal Detecting for 3.5 years now and have dozens of 1700's coppers but this is my first 1700's/Colonial Silver. 1790 Spanish Half Reale.
Thank you Minelab.