My best find! What I believe is a Carolus III 1 reale

[DigDugNY]

So to tell the story...I decided to go detecting today down at a park that was built in the 70's. There's an area off to the side where a playground was torn down. Well there is an indentation in the same area that looks to be where a foundation once was, but I could never find any information on it or how old it was. I was using my Whites Eagle Spectrum and I got a dime/penny/quarter signal and it was bouncing back and forth and I decided to dig it and found this. Its pretty worn and you probably wont be able to see any of the writing, but when I look at the legible letters, I can see "Caro... and figured it has to be a Carolus III 1 real by the pictures I've seen. I'm soo pumped! but wish it would be in better condition. I can make out a 4 as being the last number of the date and what looks like the top of a 7 next to it..so it may possibly be a 1774!

 

[GunnarMN]

Now that is really old

 

[DigDugNY]

Yea I was shocked...I had no idea the spot I was hunting was that old

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[MikeO]

Good find.
Congrats on your best find.

 

[DigDugNY]

Thanks guys...I know its pretty worn, but its old!

 

[digger1967]

That is Awsome,congrats.

 

[BluesCruise]

Beats the pants off the Chucky Chees token I found today!! Congrats on that one, way cool!

HH
BC

 

[atomicscott]

I would have collapsed if I found that. Damn, if only that coin could talk...U da Man Bobby, U da Man!!!

 

[DigDugNY]

I didn't even know what kind of coin it was when I found it...had no idea it was from the 1700s til I looked it up

 

[Fantax]

Great find ! I posted a similar very worn find a couple of weeks ago in the whatzit forum. I found it back in the 1980's then did some research and identified it myself. Very similar condition - about the size of a dime - very thin and worn. Makes the hobby oh so much fun when you find something from the 1700's here in the "new" USA. They were used as currency from what I was able to tell before we made colonial coins (before there was a USA). Keep on hunting - may have come with some fill - I found mine at the site of an old ferry crossing on the Ohio River.

 

[DigDugNY]

Great find ! I posted a similar very worn find a couple of weeks ago in the whatzit forum. I found it back in the 1980's then did some research and identified it myself. Very similar condition - about the size of a dime - very thin and worn. Makes the hobby oh so much fun when you find something from the 1700's here in the "new" USA. They were used as currency from what I was able to tell before we made colonial coins (before there was a USA). Keep on hunting - may have come with some fill - I found mine at the site of an old ferry crossing on the Ohio River.

I hope it wasn't fill. I wouldn't think so though because the spot where the foundation stood is still kinda there. You can see the square of where it was. I'm really hoping there's more there!