The Curse of Oak Island: INCREDIBLE Spanish Coin Find (Season 1) | History

Whoa, whoa, get a coin. I believe this is a coin.
No, seriously, what?
A coin found in the Oak Island swamp.
As soon as that, it looks at a time.
Hit the… hell is that, Mr. Day?
It isn’t a strange coin with an 8 on it.
What is it?
I got no idea, man.
Could this be the first of many waiting to be found?
Part of a mother lode?
Were those trapezoid edges at one time, you think?
Well, it’s copper.
Yeah, you know, I’ve seen something like this.
They’re called vadas or something like this.
I’ve seen something like this before.
That’s Spanish.
Yeah, really?
Yeah, they are like 1500s or 1600s or something like that.
For more than 200 years, people have been wondering about just one if anything lies buried on Oak Island.
In addition to theories about the Knights Templar or their successors, the Freemasons having hidden priceless religious artifacts deep within booby-trapped vaults,
there are those that tell stories of Spanish explorers hiding a portion of their gold and plunder rather than turn it all over to the king.
Could finding a Spanish coin on Oak Island be evidence that this theory is true?
This is… this is… this is probably the most valuable-looking thing that’s ever been found on Oak Island to date.
But we’ve got a long way to go for Marty Lagina.
Finding tangible evidence of something valuable being buried on Oak Island is critical if he is to continue pumping more time and money into this project.
It’s a great thing to be here with Rick right now. He’s like, “Here we are, off again, collecting money from our paper route, only this time it’s a pirate coin in the swamp.”
I’m just ecstatic about that because I see the happiness on my brother’s face, and that’s great.
But even so, the other day, I had a serious discussion with Rick about throwing in the towel.
So I said, “Geez, Rick, we don’t have a lot here. I need to see irrefutable proof.”
Could this be the proof Marty has been looking for?
A small copper coin?
This at least says a lot.
We got to figure out what it is.
He’s always looking for proof.
“Show me the proof.”
Okay, here’s the coin, here’s the proof.
Yeah, yeah, I can feel this coming.
Talk to me.
I’m sorry I doubted you.
How’s that, brother?
That’s a good deal.
Let’s look.
Just one doesn’t quite get you all the way there.
All right, let’s keep going.