The Curse of Oak Island: Actual Treasure Found at Smith’s Cove (Season 6) | History

We’re ready to go.
Right now we just scrape off and start digging.
Sound good?

NARRATOR: For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and the Oak Island team, the hopes of revealing the answers to a 223-year-old mystery have never been higher.
After completing the construction of a massive 5-foot wide steel cofferdam around Smith’s Cove, they are finally excavating nearly 12,000 square feet.
I’m feeling sort of a childish excitement to see what we’ve only seen in pictures, to dig up and see with our own eyes what that enigmatic and peculiar U-shaped structure is.
It’s kind of nostalgic. Dan dug it in ’71, and we are going to reveal it in its entirety and hopefully give that data to Dan and show him.

NARRATOR: After researching photographs and surveys from Dan Blankenship’s excavation, the team has identified an area near the north end of the cofferdam where they believe the U-shaped structure can be located.
I’ll tell you this.
Might be some stuff in there for Gary to find.
If it’s here, he’ll find it.
No doubt about that at all.
There you go, Gary.

Oh, my metal detector.
Big old spoil pile.
I got a signal here.
Nonferrous.
I got a nonferrous here.
[beeping]
Where is it?
Just here.
How deep?
I didn’t see.
Hey Rick, take a break.
Yeah, we want to see what’s going on.
I’ll do it.
Help him pull it in.
Is that it there?
Oh man.
Oh man.
Now I’m seeing…
You’re seeing results.
Yeah, I’m seeing real results.
That must be all.
See there in this lump…
That sounds like a nonferrous.
Yeah, it does.
Yeah, it is.
It’s nonferrous, whatever.
[beeping]
Gary’s happy.
I’ll let you do the honors just in case.
Wow, look at that.
I can see gold color.
Yeah, me too.
Is it heavy?
Pretty heavy.
Yeah, you can see it here.
Look.
It looks gold-colored.
Yeah, it looks gold-colored.
I think it’s got a milled edge, doesn’t it?
I’d say that’s a coin.
Yeah, I think that’s a coin.

NARRATOR: A gold coin?
Could the team have found the first piece of actual treasure at Smith’s Cove?
And this is just the beginning.

I don’t know about a milled edge.
No.
No, I’m not so sure about a milled edge either.
I think you’re… no, I don’t think so.
If that isn’t a milled edge—
That’s good.
That’s good.
It means it’s older.

NARRATOR: If the gold-colored object is, in fact, a coin, the absence of a milled edge is a likely indication that it predates the discovery of the original Money Pit in 1795.
It’s not copper either.
It’s like gold-plated.
Yeah, I can see sparkle.
It’s going to be interesting to see what this is when it’s cleaned.
Yeah.
That’s going in the top pocket.
Top pocket.
Top-pocket find.
All right, keep going.
Proceed.
We need to fill this pocket up!