louie088
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I haven't been doing much social media lately, trying to enjoy the moments without the pressures of documenting them via video / etc. But I had to share this one.
Yesterday was a hot one so I just went across the street from my house to an older property with a big yard that I got permission to detect a while ago. Its the place I go when I don't feel like driving anywhere and just want to swing the detector a dig a couple holes to get my fix.
I was in a spot where Ive found some of the older items from that yard. Its littered with iron and nails too. I was going slow with the CTX and getting a barley audible high tone with mostly low iron tones. I decided to dig it and man am I glad I did.
to my surprise it was in the bottom of the plug and was so dirty I though it was a Large Cent!
After I was rubbing it for a second (ouch) lol I started to see some shinny and immediately stoped!
1786 Spanish 2 Real !!!!!!!
Took it home to clean it a little better, it was really oxidized with iron and what looks like copper oxidization?
I still intend on cleaning it a little more to my liking. I don't want it shiny but id like to remove more of the oxidization.
Thank you guys for reading!
Yesterday was a hot one so I just went across the street from my house to an older property with a big yard that I got permission to detect a while ago. Its the place I go when I don't feel like driving anywhere and just want to swing the detector a dig a couple holes to get my fix.
I was in a spot where Ive found some of the older items from that yard. Its littered with iron and nails too. I was going slow with the CTX and getting a barley audible high tone with mostly low iron tones. I decided to dig it and man am I glad I did.
to my surprise it was in the bottom of the plug and was so dirty I though it was a Large Cent!
After I was rubbing it for a second (ouch) lol I started to see some shinny and immediately stoped!
1786 Spanish 2 Real !!!!!!!
Took it home to clean it a little better, it was really oxidized with iron and what looks like copper oxidization?
I still intend on cleaning it a little more to my liking. I don't want it shiny but id like to remove more of the oxidization.
Thank you guys for reading!
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Dream/bucket list find for me so it gets the dinger! 
