200+ Years Ago Something Was Lost In The River And I found It!

Its true! I found something older than our the United States of America. In fact, the Revolutionary War hadn't started yet. This coin was probably lost by a British soldier crossing the river one day and decided to take a dip in the water. Maybe that is a stretch. But from my old maps, an old ford crossing existed way back in the 1800s so I did a little recon on the area, brought my Garrett AT Pro, and starting fanning the bottom for relics. It was a perfect HOT summer day. But truth be told, I just got lucky. I probably dug 10lbs of fishing weights to find this gem of a coin. Was it worth it? Heck yeah! and I would do it again and probably will soon! If you want to see the other goodies you can head on over to my YouTube Channel and see the video.

1769 King George III (Irish)Half Penny (front)

Back to the coin...It turned out to be my oldest coin I have ever found beating out my 1773 silver Spanish Reale. I also pulled up some really old fishing weights and a musket ball or round ball depending on how you look at it.

Back

A musket or round ball

Old fishing weight

I captured all of it on video and if you haven't seen it yet here is the link to the video. While you're over there please subscribe to the channel to get updates whenever I post a new video.