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Where did you find those?
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
DPOTD
Those are some really teriffic coins....love the dates .
Where did you find those?
That 1779/7-PTS PR Bolivia 4R was on todays CRO early bird list...
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My sets: [280+ horse coins] :: [France Sowers] :: [Colorful world copper] :: [Beautiful world coins]
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Latin American Collection
8 Reales Madness Collection
Charles III Album
Charles III Portrait Set
Charles IV Album
Charles IV Portrait Set
Spanish Colonial Pillar Set
This 1787 Mexico City half-real is pretty humble compared to the other stuff in this thread, but it has a fun backstory.
I dug it while metal detecting on St. Simons Island, GA, only a few hundred yards away from the site of the villa that had once been occupied by General James Oglethorpe, founder of the Georgia colony. Of course Oglethorpe, having resided here in the 1730s and '40s or so, predated this coin by a generation or two, but it was obvious there had been subsequent colonial occupation on the site. I dug a holed 1776 half-real just a few feet away from this one, the evening before. From 1859 on, there was a church on the site, and another detectorist found an 1899 $5 Liberty gold piece there. When I detected the site, it had been bulldozed to create a new parking lot behind the church, so there was a quantity of "naked dirt"- precisely the sort of site I like to search. Due to the "naked dirt" I was able to pick up quite a lot of nice early pottery sherds and clay pipe stems, too.
Here is the 1776 half-real I dug just a few feet away from that 1787.
And though it's pretty slick, here is a 1779 Mexico City 2-reales piece I found at the site of Hampton Plantation on the north end of the island. This is where the oak for the sternpost of the USS Constitution was cut, and also where Aaron Burr was a guest in 1804 when he was laying low after the duel with Alexander Hamilton. There's a small chance this coin could have come out of Burr's pocket, though from the amount of wear on it it might have been dropped as late as the 1830s or '40s or so. When I hunted the Hampton site, there was a new house being built and this 2-bit piece came up right next to the footings for the new foundation. I initially thought it was some kind of aluminum tag related to the modern construction, until I felt its weight and noticed the lettering on it. Suddenly realizing what it was was quite a rush.
A 1782 Irish halfpenny and a 1782-A French Cayenne 2-sous were also found on the Hampton site, only three or four feet apart. Interestingly, both happen to be contemporary counterfeits.
A much later visitor to the site lost a 1929 quarter which to date is the nicest SLQ I've dug.
Latin American Collection
8 Reales Madness Collection
Yes, Roman. My 1772 Mo MF is a NGC AU-50.
Nice!
8 Reales Madness Collection
8 Reales Madness Collection
Steve
Still in its ICG AU53 Slab, lol.
Scratches are the slab that cracked and got damaged in the mail.
Ex. Dave Sedwick.
Mexico Mint
Latin American Collection
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Latin American Collection
Spain 8 Maravedis 1774 - Charles III Segovia Mint
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Those are some beautiful pieces! I can see why they are your favorite.
Enjoyed numismatic conversations with Eric P. Newman, Dave Akers, Jules Reiver, David Davis, Russ Logan, John McCloskey, Kirk Gorman, W. David Perkins...
OriginalDan,
Those are some beautiful pieces! I can see why they are your favorite.
Thanks!!