FreeBirdTim
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Great find! I've found 4 half reales from the 1700's, but never found any Spanish silver from the 1800's. It's almost like they stopped using it around here after the 1790's.
Great find! I've found 4 half reales from the 1700's, but never found any Spanish silver from the 1800's. It's almost like they stopped using it around here after the 1790's.
Thats a last year Spanish colonial silver too. Nice finds
OUTSTANDING ! Send directions I'm on the way. lol. A major attaboy on a great new permission and a fantastic hunt. Perhaps this place will be your field of dreams. Good luck Mark
Thats a last year Spanish colonial silver too. Nice finds
Strange, but that seems true for Calif. Spanish reales as well: 1821 or 1822 was the last year of Spanish reales, right ? (before Mexico became independent ). Yet I've noticed that most of the Spanish reales we find here in CA are from the 1770s, 80s, 90s. And a smattering of '00s. But once you get to the 1810s/20s, .... not as many . Even in sites that didn't come into being till the 1820s or 30s, yet still not too many of the latter-period Spanish reales. Still tends to be 1790s, for example (therefore longer circulation by the time of 1820s site).
I always attributed this to possibly that the Alta CA push for colonial toe-holds (the missions) was heavily bankrolled by the crown, at the start. Yet not so much in their last decade or two, since .... by then ... the missions, pueblos, and presidios, were supposed to be self-sufficient by then. Hence: less hand-holding by the Spanish crown in the later years ?
Cool Didn't know that....great info!
Wow, great finds! Think I actually like the button the most...…
Wow, beautiful property and some incredible finds. I'm curious about the sample you are putting together - do you plan to gift some of these incredible coins back to them, or have a display case of some of your "lesser" finds?