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OMG!!!!!............can the GBSE find deep LARGE Colonial Silver.....( caution...BIG silver freshly dug) :detecting:

azsh07

azsh07

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I went back to a different celaer hole today. One nearby the rest and one we long gave up as hammered. I was actually going somewhere else but a hunter was there scoping his tree blind spot...so I remembered this one and I had not dug anything there the last couple trips.

So i figured great place to see if i could manage anything....and expecting MAYBE a button.

I started off....wham...a nice colonial convex button with flower at 6 inches....huh...did not expect that. A few minutes later...a nice 81 at 7". Probably a fired .30 .06 copper jacketed slug...I find many. Huh...a King George II copper.....dang man how did we miss that and right where we had detected many times....and we dig everything.

Then 2 more buttons...now I am admittedly a bit surprised as we seriously pounded this one.....and it never gave much..a few buttons...thimble...but no coins. Not too trashy either...BUT...alot of granite rocks that false on the Explorers real bad as well as the DFX.

Then I nice 88 bouncy....real small target and faint. So I thought.....this is for sure a fired copper jacketed bullet....I am prime dear country and I dig alot of them here but...we dig any silver hit no matter.

Dig donw 3" and expect it to pop out in the top rooty soil and still PP at 8"....dang bullet. Nope.....still there. Dig down 7-8".....nope...still there and a solid 88 now and still in the same spot.

Now I am down on the ground carefully digging...expecting big copper. Dig down 8-10".....check hole..not there...check dirt pile...WAM WAM.....wow...solid 88 and blowing my ears off. Uh Oh....this is some serious sh!t now Toto.

As I look I can see the edge of BIG SILVER sticking out of the edge of the dirt pile.

Low and behold this popped out. OMG...never ever dug BIG D@MN SIlver here.

...and I said it was not hot on big silver.......how we missed it I am not sure although it had to be on edge...but still....I know the are i have been right over this exact spot many times.

BIG D@MN SILVER!!
 
an 180? Spanish Milled bust 8 Reale. Even more interesting is I think it is a colonial counterfeit but not sure. Which is fine as sometimes counterfeit Silver is just as valuable!!!!

What makes me think this is the pitting seen. Silver usually does not pit unless it is in salt water and even then. Copper will pit and Nickel even more so. The deep pitting does not show copper though.....I would not see them using nickel to make it but then again maybe. Either that it is a low grade silver counterfeit.
The only thing that makes me think it isn't is that it still has the milled reeds along the edge and that was hard to cast in a counterfeit copy. Counterfeiters did not have ability to mill and sand casting a copy lost that.
Anyway....BIG D@MN SILVER..
....and I was impressed by the 4th button and KGII. After digging this I left....thats it...can't get any better than this today. I will go back tomorrow obviously....but I am walking out on a HIGH HIGH BABY!!!
 
Love seeing big silver dug. This machine is turning out to be pretty awesome.

By the looks of the face, and nose, it looks real to me. I would seem to think being in the ground that long, and based on soil conditions and what is in the soil, it can have a lot of different effects on coins. The pitting can just be the result of the conditions of the soil and how long it's been in the ground.

Looks like Carolus IIII to me !

Great find. Love those Reales ! Here is one of the many I found on the beach last Summer. Since they were under the sand and protected, most of them were in really good condition and just grey in color.

JC
 
Most of it was black with just a touch of silver showing. I had to use my cell phone...was not going to let THAT moment slip away. Unfortunately I was alone...no one to see the chicken dance.
We just do not get alot of 8 reales dug here. You must be down Fla. way there Rover to dig em on the beach....lucky...:)
 
I'm getting more impressed with the GB every time I take it out, I named it "Spanky" because it has spanked every machine I have for finding small relics in bad ground. I have another site picked out that I have pounded that I am going to this Sunday......MO
 
...rather impressed with it.
Oh I knew it was hot back in January with the C version but I did not expect it to be quite this good in hunted out trashy sites.

Now I get to go back to all of my pounded spots and revisit them and I have a couple that really gave up good coins.
Scott
 
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Wow what a find. Was it the size or the low conductor metals that could be mixed in that allowed it to find that sooo deep? My GBSE will be here by 6:00 pm tommorow. A friend a mile or so away told me today people pan for gold at a creek behind her property. Hummm
 
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