1776 Spanish Coin

[Arizona Coin Collector]

Hello

The link below is a photo slide show of the old
city cemetery in Nashville Tennessee.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DN&Dato=20091001&Kategori=COUNTY01&Lopenr=910010802&Ref=PH

Photo numbers 9 and 14 shows and image of a 1776 Spanish
coin (and the person who found it), at the Nashville Cemetery.

Below is a news link from Coin News. It took a
while to find the story on the coin. The Tennessean
web link no longer carried the story on the coin find.

http://www.coinnews.net/tag/1776/

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[sgt23]

On Oct 12, 10:23 pm, "Arizona Coin Collector" <nos...@nospam.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> The link below is a photo slide show of the old
> city cemetery in Nashville Tennessee.
>

> http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DN&Dato=20091001...

>
> Photo numbers 9 and 14 shows and image of a 1776 Spanish
> coin (and the person who found it), at the Nashville Cemetery.
>
> Below is a news link from Coin News. It took a
> while to find the story on the coin. The Tennessean
> web link no longer carried the story on the coin find.
>
> http://www.coinnews.net/tag/1776/
>
> ..

This article makes one false statement, it is not illegal to metal
detect in all cemeteries. You can actually get permission from care
takers and some cemeteries don't even require that. You might also
want to check with your state laws. I think the only thing most
cemeteries ask that you do not do, that do allow metal detecting is
not too detect on the graves.