all right Gary today's the day let's
find something Rick and Marty lagina
along with Dave Blankenship and metal
detection expert Gary Drayton head to
lot 16 they are hoping to find not
necessarily treasure but evidence of who
might have been on the island during the
years before the money pit was first
discovered back in 1795 and this is a
good sign anywhere that's difficult to
get in that's a good place to go metal
detector
really lot sixteen is highly relevant
because it's a spoils pile really right
through the Dunfield era it was a place
where spoils from the money pit workings
were deposited I really like to go over
this because this place it one big spoil
pile in it yep what are you headed
anyway just here there's a clearing just
here it's good place to start
the target guys should be directly under
the center of the searchcoil and it's
reading six inches
feel your secrets I think this is
probably bloody Martin a broken one as
well that's even worse that means
there's another piece well quit finding
that going find something good I say we
move away from this dastardly area
oh just a Rick takes no prisoners and
get a root there Rick well whatever it
is it's out pinpoint a time shiny
see round wow look at that
it's a button or a coin isn't about that
well David you are lucky I love Otago
it's certainly roundness another one
there's a button or a coin Wow
it's a coin ah I'm seeing Britannia on
it's definitely some kind of English
coin I see a 16 I see a 1 and the suits
look like it's got a head on it yeah a
little cool I see that's Charles the
second come on yeah that's Charles this
isn't George look that's it the back of
his head there's his face and I can see
a careless
Wow definitely fantastic in 1660 follow
in an era of strict Puritanism under
Oliver Cromwell the British monarchy was
restored under king charles ii to
celebrate coins of all denominations
were minted in the likeness of the king
along with the words careless latin for
charles until his death in 1685 we
definitely haven't found any of these I
mean well Marty maybe I am good luck
you got dang right good luck Maisie
1,600 something looks like 1673 1600
honestly that's pretty cool there's a
date on this one too right down at the
bottom
1694 keep looking gary says finds the
third one even spendables fear right it
means something that's fantastic that's
a real big deal to me with sixteen
hundred coins historically this would
not have been a significant island in
the late 1600s it would have been like
just a nondescript nothing Charles a
second yeah yep Charles a second that's
way too early for people to be here
that's 120 years before the fine of the
money paid for sure yep
could finding these seventeenth-century
coins offer proof that the stories of
pirates frequenting the island are true
if so could they hold the key to solving
the 222 year-old Oak Island mystery I
believe this is a coin and could they
also have a connection to the 17th
century Spanish maravedi found in the
swamp nearly four years ago so the
Spanish coin was 1650 this is very
contemporaneous I mean close so you get
the Spanish and the English I didn't
think they liked each other not at all
hopefully this is just the beginning of
beginnings coins
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