I'm looking forward to seeing the coin. Thanks for posting it.

That's a really cool coin to find and so are the others. I purchased a British coin from the late 1600's from a relic hunter who found it in Gloster, Virginia. It's in decent condition with everything legible, even most of the date. I think I paid $20.00 for it. I asked him why it was so cheap and he said it was because it was a "damn foreign coin" and not a U.S. coin. I thought that was a strange thing to say considering that the U.S. did not exist at that time and in that line of thinking ALL coins were foreign coins. Thanks for posting the pics. You must have gotten some nice offers for the 1793 coin.

I have far too many interests and know way too much about things most people don't know or care about. The Reale, also known as the piece of eight because it was actually chopped into eight pieces to make small change, was the model for the silver dollar. Thats why a quarter was sometimes called two bits. I always thought it was interesting that various foreign coins were legal tender even after the U.S. started minting it's own coinage. The coin values must have been based on weight??? I guess there just wasn't enough supply to meet the demand so they didn't have a choice. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a lot of resistence to the "new" coinage. In addition to the really old coins I also like the Carson City mintmarked coins. I just made a deal on getting an 1879 CC morgan dollar in the original GSA case with the numbered certificate and original mailing box. From the pics it looks like a MS 62 or MS 63. I'll be eating grass and tree bark for a while but I have always wanted one and it was a reasonable price. I would love to find an old coin under water but I doubt if it will ever happen. I guess I'll just have to stick to finding shark teeth.