Buscador
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So, some of you may remember I live in the Dominican Republic. I headed down to visit a friend on the south coast today for some detecting. He lives on some land that abuts the ruins of a 500 year old ingenio (sugar processing place). The ruins are off limits so we were restricted to an area around them. I dug up no small amount of recent trash, of course, but had a few notable finds. The biggest piece of slag (dross? smelter? No idea what you'd call them) is copper, as are several of the smaller ones. It's a solid pound+. Also pictured is what I suppose is an ingot of lead and a ball that *may* have been a musketball but if so its been cut. It's kind of a hemisphere. But the thing that really got me going is the bottom pic. It's a quite old Spanish Colonial bronze 4 maravedis, minted in Santo Domingo. Hoowahh! I'll know for sure once I get it cleaned up, but I can see the columns on the back and can make out a couple letters. The Spanish only minted them here between 1542 and 1564ish. I am beyond stoked with it....
Yes, the pictures suck. Yes the coin is cruddy (hopefully it'll clean up a little). Sorry. I just got home and only have the artificial lamp light until tomorrow....and I'm so excited I just couldn't wait for daylight to get better pics.
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Yes, the pictures suck. Yes the coin is cruddy (hopefully it'll clean up a little). Sorry. I just got home and only have the artificial lamp light until tomorrow....and I'm so excited I just couldn't wait for daylight to get better pics.
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