midalake Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Posting for my good hunting friend in Mexico! Last week I went to a Hacienda that has been hunted many times by my friends and me. We occasionally have found some old 1/2 real coins and relics the place has lots of iron and modern trash. So I decided to take a walk up the hill to have a better view of the land I continued metal detecting with my D2 in high conductor mode on top of the hill I got a splatter signal that register in a 80s signal thinking it was just another junk signal but decided to take a look at it. I made a small hole about 3" deep and found a 1/2 real coin but my pin Pointer was beeping all around the hole and I started to find coin after coin at that point I thought I was dreaming in slow motion. I found a stack of seven 8 Real coins nicely put vertically in the ground and more 1/2 real and 2 real coins splatted around the hole. There is one, a provisional Zacatecas 8-Real coin and two coins that have a counter stamp to show the issuing authority from opposing forces. These in particular are VERY RARE! All in total: 25 Real coins! I started detecting with my father when I was 12 years old, over 40 years later I still love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Wow what a great haul! Love the counter-stamped reales 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogrider Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Wow! The find of a lifetime for many. Good on you for detecting outside the heavily hunted area. You never know where these types of coin dumps might be found. I bet there's more to be found nearby..... Cheers Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Major score Midalake, congratulations! I've made some of my best finds "taking a walk up there" 😀 but this one is a dream. Awesome lucky find for your friend. 👍 What's the oldest one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim tn Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Almost speechless! Simply outstanding. HH Jim Tn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECris Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Wow. Great haul and on vacation too!! Congrats!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsb Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Whoaa! I thought 3 or so till i scrolled down! 🏆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midalake Posted January 6, 2023 Author Share Posted January 6, 2023 19 minutes ago, ECris said: Wow. Great haul and on vacation too!! Congrats!!! Well my hunting Bud is Van Rijn Stewart who is putting likes on here. I am not there yet....he would never take me to a spot this good! 🤣 [kidding] Actually, it is hard for me to hunt with him. I am over 6 hours away at the beach. I don't have the proper equipment, boots, thorn guards, rattle snake protection......etc. Maybe one day I can get out in the Mexican wilderness and do a little swinging. I would not mind a few Cobs and Reales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kac Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Now that is a pretty sweet hunt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Even professional treasure hunters (the few that are left...) would be excited over this cache, I would think. Does your friend have an hypothesis on how they got there? Was it a traveller who lost his savings, a farmer/rancher hiding his, or ?? Just amazing in my book. I'll only ever find something like that in my dreams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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