The Curse of Oak Island: SHOCKING GOLD COIN DISCOVERED (Season 4) | History

We’ve got a coin.
I found a coin, come on with a gold coin.
Yes, a gold coin.
Could this be the first solid evidence
that an incredible treasure
still lies buried deep within the oak
Island bunny pit?

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Oh.
That’s got some marks on the side of it.
Let’s see.
Okay, there is wording around the outside of it.
Yeah, spit on it, just moisten it a little bit.

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Well, there’s writing on the outside, wouldn’t you say?
My eyes are horrible, I can’t tell them.
Alright, this I gotta see.
Yeah, honestly, got a coin out of this spoils pile, I think so.
It’s either a coin or a bottle.
I’m just marking around the outside, Marty, look at that.
Let’s put some water on that. Let me just stop.
Give me the bottle, give me the bite, I can read it.
Your face is found; friendships go out the window.
That’s right.
I just want some info.

Can you read the writing?
I think it says “plated.”
What the hell would that mean?
If it says plated, it’s a button.
What’s it doing deep in the money pit?
Almost the untapped area.
It’s highly meaningful, it’s something out of place.
It’s in the money pit, very deep in an area where
it shouldn’t be.
Well, maybe that is a button.

Well, I don’t know.
I mean, the reason you think it’s a button is because it looks like there’s
like a little dimple in the body that doesn’t go through.
Yeah, the officers back in the day in the army, in the navy, in the 17
and 1800s, they used to wear nice
gold-plated buttons.
Yeah, and if it’s a button, it’s a cuff button.
A gold-plated British military button,
possibly dating to the 18th century.
Could this be further evidence of
British military activity on
Oak Island in the years before the money pit was first discovered
in 1795?

Holy smokes,
look at these! Wow, all in one spot.
Earlier this year, while searching an
area of the island that was once
owned by a former American slave named
Samuel Ball,
the team found a number of 18th century
British coins,
buttons, and other artifacts.
Now, we’ve got to start putting things
together. We’ve got a button, we’ve got
coins,
and this, maybe this is some kind of cam.

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We are starting to zero in on something,
something happening here,
of substance in the mid-1700s. Fred Nolan
felt that the money pit
was engineered, that it was done by a
disciplined group of individuals.
You know, where are you going to go, who
has all of those
capabilities, if you will, at that time? It
would be military.
If that little gold button predates the
discovery of the money pit,
then yeah, it is the most important thing
dug out of the money pit
since, well, maybe ever.

No, the fact that you found it, were able
to find it, in fact, you found it is
what’s amazing.

Well, that’s what you guys invited me to
do. You said you’d find gold, by God, you
were supposed to find a tiny bit more
than that, but that’s okay.