MTJosh
Elite Member
Was going through some finds from possibly even 2 years ago. Had a jar with some cruddy beach clad quarters and tokens. tumbled a bunch to get them bank worthy. Tossed in tokens and misc foreign coins from the beach too to make them look better. Emptied the tumbler and saw shiny silver. One of the dark beach "tokens" turned out to be a 1896 Guatemalan 2 Reale. It is .835 silver, even states it on the coin. It is very close size to a quarter so see how I could have tossed it in a clad quarter bin It could have been lost at the beach 10 years ago or 100+ years ago. This is my oldest coin from the beach and first 1800's coin in CA. This was from a beach in southern CA. I have found old mercs, buffs, wheats Washington quarters and walkers from this stretch so guess anything is possible. Needless to say I am very happy with this find. It now sits proudly next to the barber quarters I found in the dirt.