A cool silver religious medal I found.

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relicsncoins
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edited April 22, 2021 5:23PM in Metal Detecting

This was found at a Mission era site in CA. It's about the sized of a half dollar. It appears to be die struck and the hole on the hasp was hand drilled and the edges are hand filed.



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  • ricko
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    That is a nice medal.... How have you confirmed it is silver? Cheers, RickO

  • relicsncoins
    relicsncoins Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 23, 2021 8:45PM
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    @ricko said:
    That is a nice medal.... How have you confirmed it is silver? Cheers, RickO

    The site was abandoned in 1830. We found no coins or artifacts that dated after that. It has the metallic look of countless silver coins I've found with a metal detector. It's heavy like silver and did not corrode. There were only a few white metals available during that time, tin, pewter and silver. The other two would not have been this well preserved. So I guess, deductive reasoning.

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  • Jimnight
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    Nice find!

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice I like

  • DCW
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    I love this!

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  • Treashunt
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    nice find

    Frank

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  • ricko
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    You should have a jeweler test it... Just nice to confirm, not necessary. Cheers, RickO

  • metalmeister
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    Nice back story. Abandoned mission. What county? Just curious.

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  • relicsncoins
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    @metalmeister said:
    Nice back story. Abandoned mission. What county? Just curious.

    It was on a stage route between missions in Monterey County.

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  • ricko
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    If that medal could talk.... Could have been lost during an Indian attack, or by an early immigrant passing through.... Ah the history that is lost.... though probably the imagination (in most cases) is far more exciting. Cheers, RickO

  • metalmeister
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    @relicsncoins said:

    @metalmeister said:
    Nice back story. Abandoned mission. What county? Just curious.

    It was on a stage route between missions in Monterey County.

    Very cool. I live near El Camino Real in the south land. Most of it paved over, but there are sections that were not. :)

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  • Steven59
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    Unusual find. Very cool.........

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