Oldest Silver Yet...1600!

It started out as a very poor hunt.  I just spent 21 hours with baby and wife gave me a break and insisted that I go out and do some detecting.  I only had a couple hours so I could not go far so I headed over to the ArrowHead Field to try my luck there.  I spent maybe 20 minutes in the plow zone and started to get frustrated so I switched over to a mowed hay field.  I had been on this field before but decided I was going to grid the entire field and hope for a stray.  I knew there wasn't a site in this area but it has been a farmed field for over 300 years so a decent stray is always possible. 

My first target was a 1978 clad dime...not a good start.  After another hour of gridding without so much as a single target I found a musketball...a little better.  By this time I had been detecting for 2 hours and only managed a musketball.  I continued for another 45 minutes only finding scrap pieces of lead but nothing more.  It was getting close to supper so it was time to head home.  I left the hay field and decided to swing my way back up the plowed ArrowHead Field.  I was seeing a lot of flint and quartz but no points.  I was halfway back up the field heading to the car when I got a scratchy signal.  I turned the dirt and saw what I thought was another dime.  When I picked it up I knew it wasn't a dime...it was too thin.  I rinsed they soil off in a puddle and saw that whatever it was it was misstruck...but I knew it was French!

When i got home I checked it out with the loupe and verified that it was a colonial French coin dating from the 1600s!  The date is cut off due to being misstruck but I can still see 16 below the monarch.  It's a French 4 sol minted between 1691-1700.

Thanks for looking.

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Something like that will put a smile on your face.........a really neat looking coin. Way to go Romeo......John in Va

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Johnlaw

Congrats! You are on a roll - the really old sword hilt and now a silver from the 1600s. And I thought you'd packed it in for the winter  So, you've found a lot of arrowheads in that field? Sue

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Very cool! That's an awesome find!

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nice one...well done,,,patience,patience,patience,will always pay off,I know the small silvers give a faint signal,still its nice finding them tiny silvers,mikek

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