Jodo_Kast501
Senior Member
This isn't technically a detecting find, but it is from my "when I can't detect hobby" and there are more off-topic posts in this forum, so here goes.
I was going through a box of nickels this afternoon, as I often do when I can't get out because of heat, work, or childcare. I noticed an odd coin at the end of the roll. I don't usually check for enders, but noticed this as I was starting to open the roll. Thank God I took a photo. These are machine-wrapped paper rolls, by the way. The coin depicted the Pillars of Hercules, so I knew it was Spanish. I assumed it was a twentieth-century Spanish coin. It was not.
A little more context. The box was a good one even without this find and I'm fairly certain it's someone's collection dump. There were easily 150 or more 1940s and 1950s nickels, a Buffalo, three war nickels, and a Nazi 10 Reichspfennig. I'm still at a loss to explain how this got there. Great American Coin Hunt? I just don't know. Anyway.
I opened the roll and was flabbergasted to find a silver 1796 Spanish 1 reale. In a roll of nickels. 224 years after it was minted in Lima, Peru. I am still in shock. It is one in a million.
I was going through a box of nickels this afternoon, as I often do when I can't get out because of heat, work, or childcare. I noticed an odd coin at the end of the roll. I don't usually check for enders, but noticed this as I was starting to open the roll. Thank God I took a photo. These are machine-wrapped paper rolls, by the way. The coin depicted the Pillars of Hercules, so I knew it was Spanish. I assumed it was a twentieth-century Spanish coin. It was not.
A little more context. The box was a good one even without this find and I'm fairly certain it's someone's collection dump. There were easily 150 or more 1940s and 1950s nickels, a Buffalo, three war nickels, and a Nazi 10 Reichspfennig. I'm still at a loss to explain how this got there. Great American Coin Hunt? I just don't know. Anyway.
I opened the roll and was flabbergasted to find a silver 1796 Spanish 1 reale. In a roll of nickels. 224 years after it was minted in Lima, Peru. I am still in shock. It is one in a million.