17th century Spanish coin found in ‘Diamond Don’s RV Park’
A couple staying in a seaside resort in Marion County, Texas, recently made a surprise discovery – with origins dating from almost 350 years. While scanning with casualness the field of Diamond Don’s RV Park at around 165 miles east of Dallas, David Durocher and his partner stumbled on a well -preserved Spanish piece Maravedis struck in 1661. But speaking with KLTV Local KLTV, Durocher explained that the historical meaning of the currency was not immediately apparent.
“We were sitting outside the trailer here and I crossed the things we detected and, for any reason, she went by car,” he said on June 17. “A few minutes later, she came back and gave me this thing.”
At first glance, Durocher thought that the discovery was simply a cast for thrown car washing. However, a more in-depth examination confirmed that the origins of the medal raised almost 247 years before the beginnings of Ford Model-T in 1908.
“Guy, is it a Spanish Maravelis 8 where did it come from?” He added.
Although the specific provenance of this piece remains unknown, the real “maravedi” pieces date from nine centuries. Initially struck with gold and silver, the Maravelis are in fact based on the golden dinar created by the emir of Córdoba Abd-Ar-Rahman III (912–969 CE). In the 11th century, Christian leaders of Portugal, Castile and León had adopted their own variants called morabitino Or Maravedí.
After the arrival of Spain in the Americas, the Kingdom began to lower the Maravedis copper in the early 1500s specifically for the distribution between its colonies. By hitting the discovery in 1661, Spain counted on the Bayous near the current county of Marion for commercial and transport roads.
The exact details of the 8 Durocher maravedis remain clear, but it is probably one of the 6.6 grams of variants, with a portrait of King Philippe IV, the Spanish monarch of 1621-1665 CE. Anyway, it is not worth it much more than when it was created almost 350 years ago. According to the evaluation of his colleague collector of Durocher’s parts, the Spanish discovery of 8 Maravedis is probably worth around $ 5.25 in today’s money. But even before knowing its value, KLTV noted that the owner of RV Park Diamond Don himself, Don Rainey, congratulated the discoverers of the medal and accepted the secular rule of “researcher’s guards”.
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