GARY DRAYTON: So you ready to put
some coil to the soil, mate?
MICHAEL JOHN: I'm ready.
I'm ready.
NARRATOR: Metal detection expert Gary
Drayton and treasure hunter Michael John arrive at lot 32.
Different lot, different treasure and prospects, mate,
all the time.
Exactly.
NARRATOR: They are eager to search for new, and hopefully
valuable, clues and artifacts.
I expect there's going to be some signs--
Yeah.
--of wharf activity in this area.
That's right.
Exactly, yeah.
This could be the golden opportunity for us.
That's right.
GARY DRAYTON: What have we got here?
NARRATOR: Just one week ago--
What the hell is that?
Look at the size of that.
NARRATOR: --working with Marty Lagina,
Gary uncovered a large spike that may date back three
centuries or more, and which blacksmithing expert Carmen
Legge believes was used to anchor ships
to large boulders on the beach.
Oh?
NARRATOR: And it was also on lot 32
that, one year ago, the team found
not only a large wharf spike, but also a lead cargo bag seal.
With there being a wharf here and the artifacts we've already
recovered, mate, I want to know what they were unloading here--
Yeah.
--and what connection this area has to the money pit.
I got a good feeling about this lot,
especially having so many flags to go for.
Well, mate, you ready to get stuck in?
I'm ready.
Let's go for it.
We've made some significant discoveries on lot 32.
Close proximity to the ocean--
one could suggest or speculate that people
were in that area carrying a load on and onto a wharf.
If we find that they're headed in a certain direction,
we can draw that line.
So every little clue is important.
Well, mate, another good, two-way repeatable signal.
[electronic beeping]
Ooh.
Still in the hole, I believe.
Yeppers.
Unless it's on the edge.
Come, baby.
Be in there.
Oh, look at how-- - That's deep.
- --deep that is mate. - Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I always tell you, Michael--
Yeah.
--the deeper it is, the older it normally is.
Well, mate, let's see if we got it out.
Sure.
Looks like I did, yeah.
You have got it out.
[electronic beeping]
MICHAEL JOHN: There we go.
I always get excited when you see this edge.
You see that nice round edge there, mate?
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Is it a coin or is it a bullet?
MICHAEL JOHN: I think it'd be a coin.
- It's a coin, mate. - Yes.
It's a coin.
Yes.
Look at that.
Oh my gosh.
NARRATOR: On lot 32 just west of the swamp,
metal detection expert Gary Drayton and treasure
hunter Michael John have just made a potentially
valuable discovery.
GARY DRAYTON: Now I don't know how old, mate.
MICHAEL JOHN: No.
And it is always tempting just to-- to rub it.
- Yeah. - But we can't--
No.
GARY DRAYTON: --just in case we damage it.
Exactly, yeah.
Get this to Kelly in the archaeology trailer, mate.
He'll do his business on this.
MICHAEL JOHN: Mhm.
But why I'm excited about this coin, mate,
it looks like an old British copper.
And it wasn't that long ago when it was Rick, Marty,
Dave, and I, we were on that ridge
on the other side of the swamp.
We pulled two coins up, British coppers from the 1600s, mate.
Wow.
GARY DRAYTON: That's Charles II.
Come on.
Yeah, that's Charles, and I can see a Carolus.
NARRATOR: Four years ago, on lot 16, in the same area where
the team has found evidence of cargo
being transported between the swamp and the money pit--
That's way too early for people to be here.
NARRATOR: --Gary, along with Rick, Marty, and Dave
Blankenship, discovered two 17th-century British coins.
It means something.
That is-- it's fantastic.
This has been taking a dirt nap for a very long time.
NARRATOR: Although the team has found evidence dating
as far back as the 14th century of both French and Portuguese
activity on Oak Island, could this coin offer
possible evidence that a British operation
to hide valuables here took place some time later,
perhaps in the 17th century?
I can't believe how thin the coin is, you know?
Which is great for us.
The thinner it is, the more chance that it's an older coin.
Dang, mate.
Yeah.
This is brilliant.
Oh, fantastic.
You can't beat it.
MICHAEL JOHN: No.
GARY DRAYTON (VOICEOVER): This is the reason why Michael John
and I came back to lot 32, the chance
at holding a beautiful old coin like this in our hands.
This has got 1700s written all over it,
and I'm fairly certain when this coin is cleaned up,
there is going to be a king on it.
Oh.
Beautiful.
You can't beat it.